Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is furious that the immigration agent who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis has been reinstated — and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to know if he’s working in their state.
“God forbid, every single American, every single person that that man encounters from his reinstatement on is in just great danger as she was in,” Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said in a video clip posted on X by the MeidasTouch Network.
Ocasio-Cortez also called Good’s reinstatement “so brazen” and “intentional.”
“You have an ICE agent who killed a woman, you know, in cold blood. But the fact that the agency has reinstated him is a direct message from the administration about the impunity they feel.”
In a letter to President Donald Trump’s “border czar,” Tom Homan, Hochul said she was “deeply troubled by reports that Jonathan Ross, the agent who shot Ms. Good three times, has been quietly reassigned to another state” and said she had “no confidence that Ross can be trusted to safely interact with the public.”
“I am formally requesting confirmation that Jonathan Ross has not been reassigned to work in New York State,” Hochul wrote in the letter posted online by Politico.
“If Jonathan Ross has been reassigned to work in New York, I demand that he be immediately removed and not redeployed unless cleared after a full, independent investigation.”
Rep. Delia Rodriguez (D-Ill.) also told PunchUp and Migrant Insider that Ross’s reinstatement “should concern everyone,” asking, “What state will he go to?
Spokespeople for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the White House didn’t immediately return requests for comment Friday.
Ross was placed on three days of administrative leave after shooting Good during an ICE operation on Jan. 7.
Earlier this week, PunchUp reported that Ross had been transferred out of Minnesota and was working in another, unidentified state.
He’s been reassigned to administrative duty, according to NewsNation.
Rep. Sarah McBride said it was “absolutely outrageous” that Ross was again working for ICE and invoked the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti during a confrontation with Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis on Jan. 24.
“It is clear this administration has learned nothing from the murders of Renee Good or Alex Pretti, and they seem to be asking for it happen again,” she said in a video clip posted by MeidasTouch. “There is no, no, no reason to put someone who murdered an American citizen on our streets back on those streets.
“There should be accountability, not unleashing this person back on American citizens in our communities,” McBride said.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn), who represents the Minneapolis district where Good lived, told told PunchUp and Migrant Insider that it was “really, really heartbreaking that we cannot get accountability” for her slaying.
