The statements from congressional Republicans after Saturday's shooting of Alex Pretti were relatively mild. Lawmakers said that they were 'deeply troubled' or 'disturbed' by the second killing of an American citizen by federal immigration officers this month; most called for an investigation into Pretti's death. But the statements kept coming, one after another, all through the weekend and into yesterday. The reactions from across the GOP sent an unmistakable message in their volume, if not in their rhetoric, to Donald Trump: Enough. The defining characteristics of the Republican-controlled Congress during the president's second term have been silence and acquiescence. That so many in his party felt compelled to speak up after Pretti's killing was a sign that Republicans had finally lost patience with federal agents occupying a major American city'a deportation operation that has soured the public on one of Trump's signature policies and sunk the GOP's standing at the outset of a...
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