Protesters in the United States have started a nationwide “no work, no school, no shopping” strike in response to the President Donald Trump administration’s deportation drive.The strike on Friday, organised by an array of activist groups, comes in the wake of the killing of two US citizens in Minnesota by immigration enforcement agents this month, building on a state-wide strike held last week.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listOn Friday, the US Department of Justice announced it would open a civil rights probe into the killing of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by border patrol agents on January 24.However, it has still not moved to investigate possible rights violations of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in her fatal shooting by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent on January 7.United States Representative Ilhan Omar, who represents Minneapolis, was among the elected officials promoting Friday’s strike.“Solidarity with every single person participating in today’s general strike against ICE’s terror campaign,” Omar wrote on X.“You’re changing the world,” she said.Civil rights probeThe killings of Good and Pretti followed the Trump administration’s surge of immigration agents to Minnesota to specifically target alleged fraud in the Somali American community.The deployment came amid a wider deportation drive that observers say has seen immigration agents use dragnet techniques to reach dramatically increased detention quotas.Earlier this week, border security chief Tom Homan, officially dubbed the “border czar” by the White House, pledged that enforcement operations would continue in the state, but said increased coope …
