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Statement

A Minnesota Mom Loses Her Life to Overzealous ICE Enforcement – and Our Nation’s Leaders Double Down and Lie

January 8, 2026
Immigration

Lisa Lederer, 202/371-1996

Statement of Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, Executive Director and CEO of MomsRising, the online and on-the-ground organization of more than one million mothers and their families, on the tragic, senseless murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minnesota yesterday:

“A mom is dead. Schools are closed. A community is in crisis. 

“Renee Nicole Good should be alive today. Her six-year-old son, her wife, her mom, her community should not be grieving. This tragedy was a foreseeable – perhaps even inevitable – result of the grossly irresponsible choices President Trump and Republican leaders in Congress have made to put heavily armed, masked law enforcement agents on our streets, to stoke anti-immigrant and racist sentiment, to sow fear and division, and to grant the U.S. Department of Homeland Security massive funding and unchecked authority.

“America’s moms want Congress to exert meaningful oversight. We need a full and fair investigation of the murder of Renee Nicole Good. We need Congress to require ICE agents  and other federal agents to wear body cameras and to ensure an end to the appalling deaths of ICE detainees and the ICE attacks on immigrants and American citizens. Moms want lawmakers to use our tax dollars to fund health care, education, child and elder care, food and nutrition, and other essential programs; not to terrify our communities. Our nation needs a safe and orderly immigration process that balances compassion and security, not cuts to health care, not cruelty, and not this kind of violence.  

“And as we grieve for Renee, we grieve as well for the countless others this administration has terrified, injured, abducted, and traumatized in ICE custody. The reality is stark: 2025 was ICE’s deadliest year in two decades. American moms know this truth: Safety does not come from terrifying families. It’s built through care, dignity, and accountability.  Moms also recognize immigrants as essential to our care workforce, and to the success of our communities and our economy as a whole  – and we recognize that every child and family has basic human rights that should never be trampled.

“The administration’s responses to yesterday’s tragedy in Minneapolis have been profoundly disturbing. President Trump’s social media posts and the comments by Vice President Vance and other high-level officials have been grotesque attempts to spin the incident with absolutely no regard for truth or justice. But we can all see for ourselves what happened – and we can all see that it’s past time for Congress to exert meaningful oversight.” 

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, stop discrimination against women and moms, and build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: www.MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.