The Daily Populous Sunday May 3rd, 2026 morning edition
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is furious that the immigration agent who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis has been reinstated — and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to know if he's working in their state.

"God forbid, every single American, every single person that that man encounters from his reinstatement on is in just great danger as she was in," Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said in a video clip posted on X by the MeidasTouch Network.

Ocasio-Cortez also called Good's reinstatement "so brazen" and "intentional."

“You have an ICE agent who killed a woman, you know, in cold blood. But the fact that the agency has reinstated him is a direct message from the administration about the impunity they feel.”

In a letter to President Donald Trump's "border czar," Tom Homan, Hochul said she was "deeply troubled by reports that Jonathan Ross, the agent who shot Ms. Good three times, has been quietly reassigned to another state" and said she had "no confidence that Ross can be trusted to safely interact with the public."

open image in gallery Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is outraged that the ICE agent who shot and killed Minnesota mom Renee Good has been reassigned. And Gov. Kathy Hochul wants President Donald Trump to tell her if he’s working in their state. ( Getty )

"I am formally requesting confirmation that Jonathan Ross has not been reassigned to work in New York State," Hochul wrote in the letter posted online by Politico.

"If Jonathan Ross has been reassigned to work in New York, I demand that he be immediately removed and not redeployed unless cleared after a full, independent investigation."

Rep. Delia Rodriguez (D-Ill.) also told PunchUp and Migrant Insider that Ross's reinstatement "should concern everyone,” asking, "What state will he go to?

The Department of Homeland Security said Friday that it didn’t discuss personnel matters. The White House didn’t immediately return a request for comment.

Ross was placed on three days of administrative leave after shooting Good during an ICE operation on Jan. 7.

open image in gallery Democratic lawmakers are outraged that immigration agent Jonathan Ross, shown here on an electronic billboard in Minneapolis in January, has been reinstated and reassigned outside Minnesota ( AFP/Getty )

open image in gallery A photo of Renee Good is displayed at a January protest in Minneapolis following her shooting by immigration agent Jonathan Ross, who’s since been reinstated and reassigned outside Minnesota ( AFP/Getty )

Earlier this week, PunchUp reported that Ross had been transferred out of Minnesota and was working in another, unidentified state.

He's been reassigned to administrative duty, according to NewsNation.

Rep. Sarah McBride said it was "absolutely outrageous" that Ross was again working for ICE and invoked the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti during a confrontation with Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis on Jan. 24.

"It is clear this administration has learned nothing from the murders of Renee Good or Alex Pretti, and they seem to be asking for it happen again," she said in a video clip posted by MeidasTouch. "There is no, no, no reason to put someone who murdered an American citizen on our streets back on those streets.

"There should be accountability, not unleashing this person back on American citizens in our communities," McBride said.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn), who represents the Minneapolis district where Good lived, told told PunchUp and Migrant Insider that it was “really, really heartbreaking that we cannot get accountability” for her slaying.

Memitim on May 2nd, 2026 at 19:37 UTC »

Reinstatement? I was sure that he would get a position in Trump's cabinet for executing an American while in service to the Republican private army.

StudiesinLamplight on May 2nd, 2026 at 18:45 UTC »

When the democrats get back into power, if they do not prosecute every single ICE criminal, every single politician and government official who have left shit stains on our constitution and defied court orders, I will fully radicalize.

There must be accountability or the republic is over.

Edit: I'm sorry, some of you are reading this like it is a prediction, it's not. it is a prescriptive statement, one that I have little faith will come to pass. Don't need the vague condescension as if I don't understand how dire the political situation is.

ToadP on May 2nd, 2026 at 18:39 UTC »

Yeah he probably has an increase in pay and is now 2nd in command of running the Dept of U.S. citizen Murderers.