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Pressure mounted on Donald Trump\u2019s administration on Sunday to fully investigate the previous day\u2019s killing by federal immigration officers of 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti<\/a> in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n Calls for an investigation have come from all sides of the political divide after video analysis<\/a> showed officers had removed from Pretti a handgun he was reportedly permitted to carry \u2013 and which he was not handling \u2013 before fatally shooting him.<\/p>\n Republican US senator Bill Cassidy said the \u201ccredibility\u201d of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) were \u201cat stake\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThere must be a full joint federal and state investigation,\u201d Cassidy wrote in a post on X.<\/a> \u201cWe can trust the American people with the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n Minnesota US senator Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat, told NBC\u2019s Meet the Press that Trump administration<\/a> had described the shooting, which is shown in several eyewitness videos circulating widely on social media, \u201cin ways that simply aren\u2019t true\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI just keep thinking, your eyes don\u2019t lie,\u201d Klobuchar said. \u201cLaw enforcement is based on trust, and we have had a total breakdown of trust.\u201d<\/p>\n She called for a \u201ctransparent\u201d investigation into the shooting and called for the Trump administration\u2019s immigration enforcement agents to leave the state.<\/p>\n \u201cThey are making us less safe, not more safe,\u201d Klobuchar said, after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shot Renee Nicole Good to death on 7 January and border patrol officers fatally shot Pretti on Saturday.<\/p>\n Other Democrat lawmakers, including US House member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, both of New York, also issued calls for federal immigration authorities to leave Minnesota. They urged Senate Democrats to vote against funding the US Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and border patrol, during budget negotiations.<\/p>\n