Democrats press Trump officials on immigration enforcement tactics

Democrats in the U.S. Congress pressed President Donald Trump's top immigration officials on Tuesday over the Republican president's crackdown,

the first such hearing since two U.S. citizens were killed in Minnesota amid mounting opposition to Trump’s mass deportation push.



The officials - the highest-ranking at three agencies overseeing immigration enforcement and legal immigration - faced repeated criticism from Democrats on the committee after federal immigration officers fatally shot Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.



Trump escalated his aggressive immigration enforcement push in Minneapolis in January, leading to clashes between masked immigration officers and residents opposed to broad immigration sweeps that have picked up many people with no criminal record, including families and children.



Top Trump officials swiftly portrayed Good and Pretti as"domestic terrorists" and aggressors after they were killed by federal officers, but video evidence contradicted those statements.