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Immigration Reform

Make America Grow Again Series | Segment 12 - How Keeping Immigration “Illegal” Fuels Billions in Profit... for the Left, the Right, and the Criminals Alike. Neither Side Cares.

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Rxan Smith
Jan 28, 2026
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The Minneapolis ICE shooting is not an anomaly….it's predictable.

The deaths of Alex Pretti and Renée Good were not accidents. In the cold light of a Minneapolis January, they were the predictable, high-definition outcomes of a system that has learned how to turn human tragedy into a quarterly dividend.

​I spent months digging into the guts of this series, thinking I understood the stakes. But as I watched the footage from Nicollet Avenue, the truth hit me: we aren’t dealing with a series of tragic mistakes. We are dealing with a balance sheet. When you fix the incentives, the tragedies stop. However, when the tragedies are the very things keeping the industry alive, nobody at the top is looking for a cure.

​I realized as I finished this segment that I’ve barely scratched the surface of the rot. Because here is the part they don’t want you to see:

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