The deaths of Alex Pretti, Keith Porter and Renee Good still feel like a nightmare that many of us haven’t awakened from yet. When shots rang out in the streets of Minneapolis, the surge in public outcry was intense and immediate. But as the chaos faded into memory, the Trump administration seemed to have achieved exactly what it had wanted for months: the public off its back.

The senseless violence exhibited by ICE agents incited fury from every corner of the country that lasted for months on end. Over time, though, the crowds dwindled as the federal authorities shifted to other, less violent strategies in public, as reported by NBC News.

But as we’re six months removed from these incidents, what has that rage translated into? With government forces now comfortable taking lethal action against Americans, what are our leaders doing to prevent more violence?

Long story short, not enoughJunior planning, public policy and management student Calder Slingerland said, “I don’t think the media or politicians at the local, state or national levels have appropriately addressed ICE’s continued disappearing of community members,” explaining that, “In many ways, the media is complicit in dropping the story, but government reactions haven’t been strong enough to protect our community. We can’t let injustice go unpunished.”

But unpunished it went. Every agent involved in Porter, Pretti and Good’s deaths kept their jobs. Good’s killer even made hundreds of thousands of dollars off the killing on a GoFundMe set up in his name, but the public’s attention had already shifted to the next hot topic.

Junior Katie Ruecker described the force ICE uses in their operations as “disgusting” and “abhorrent,” condemning the “shooting of innocent civilians” and arrests that even members of Congress have compared to kidnappings.

Yet, despite the story’s eventual fading into the background, the deaths have only continued at an accelerated rate. Except this time, the most vulnerable among us are the ones being targeted: the immigrants in their custody.

Detainees across the country are being mistreated, with people inside fearing for their lives. At Fort Bliss, Texas, alone, immigrants in custody report poor conditions and threats from guards who intend to force detainees into signing voluntary deportation paperwork while the voluntary deportation rate is rising. There are accounts of physical and sexual assaults and allegations of torture inflicted by guards.

In another case, immigrants held in New Jersey’s Delaney Hall detention center are currently on a hunger strike, protesting the poor conditions in the facility. In response, community organizers outside quickly mobilized protesters to put pressure on federal authorities. Even New Jersey Sen. Andy Kim showed up outside the building and, while asking to check the conditions inside and exercising his legal right to oversight, was pepper-sprayed by law enforcement.

As of June 3, CBS News has reported that the deaths in immigration custody are on track to hit a new record, with 18 deaths in the first half of 2026 alone. Nearly a fifth of which were suicides — a number rising rapidly, an Associated Press Investigation found.

Grief without consequence is just weather, and anger without action is still complacency.

We have already decided, collectively, that these deaths are acceptable. The outrage came, the cameras left and the killing continues. So how many more are we willing to tolerate before we call it what it is?