Most of the government could shut down this weekend. ICE operations would carry on.

By Scott Wong and Frank Thorp V WASHINGTON — Most of the federal government could shut down at the end of the week. But that likely wouldn’t halt aggressive Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol operations in Minneapolis and other parts of the country. Democrats are up in arms after a Border Patrol agent fatally shot Alex Pretti, an intensive care unit nurse and U.S. citizen, in Minneapolis over the weekend. That came after an ICE officer shot and killed Renee Good, another Minneapolis resident and citizen, in her car earlier this month. Under enormous pressure from the base, Senate Democrats have vowed to block a sweeping government funding bill unless significant

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