A brother of Renee Good, a U.S. citizen killed by a federal agent in Minneapolis last month, told congressional Democrats on Tuesday that his family had been disheartened that immigration officials had not seemed to change their behavior since his sister’s death.

“These encounters with federal agents are changing the community, and changing many lives, including ours, forever,” said the brother, Luke Ganger. Another brother of Good, Brent Ganger, grew emotional as he read from the eulogy he wrote for his sister, describing her as “unapologetically hopeful.”

The Democrats’ forum in Washington was not focused exclusively on Minnesota, but was meant to be a larger look at how federal immigration agents have used force during the Trump administration’s deportation push in Democratic-led cities across the country.

The Democrats called for restricting immigration enforcement efforts, but they were divided on the actions that should be taken. They agreed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents should be required to show their faces and obtain judicial warrants, but some insisted that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should be impeached, and a smaller number called for ICE to be abolished.

In Minnesota, thousands of people have been arrested and agents have clashed repeatedly with protesters since the surge began more than two months ago. Alex Pretti, another U.S. citizen, was fatally shot by federal agents in Minneapolis weeks after Good’s death.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz described a chaotic operation that had left residents unnerved during a news conference Tuesday. He also criticized the detention of children, writing in a letter to Noem that many students were afraid to attend classes. The governor called for a return to Biden-era policies that restricted immigration enforcement at schools.

Fallout from the surge has flooded the federal courts in the Twin Cities. On Tuesday, two Venezuelan men who were charged in connection with an ICE shooting that injured one of them last month appeared before a judge. So, too, did a man accused of squirting vinegar on Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. He was ordered to remain in jail.

Here’s What We’re Covering:

— Shutdown deal: The House passed a spending package to end the partial government shutdown and keep the Department of Homeland Security running through the end of next week while Democrats and President Donald Trump negotiate restrictions on the administration’s immigration crackdown.

— Pretti investigation: Autopsy results released by the county medical examiner’s office Monday described the death of Pretti as a homicide caused by multiple gunshot wounds.

— Body cameras: Noem said Monday that all federal agents in Minneapolis from her department would be equipped with body cameras. That policy would eventually be expanded nationwide, she said.

— Liam’s return: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who was detained by federal agents while wearing a Spider-Man backpack and a blue bunny hat, is back home in Minnesota. A federal judge had ordered that the boy and his father be freed from an immigration detention center in Texas.

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This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

By Mitch Smith, Michael Gold, Talya Minsberg and Claire Fahy/Tierney L. Cross
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