Unidentified speaker urges ICE pullback and accountability after fatality involving Alex Preddy

An unidentified speaker who identified themself as governor of Massachusetts sharply criticized recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations and called for immediate accountability, saying the actions have put communities at risk.

"This just isn't right," the speaker said, adding that ICE is "out of control" and urging that "Kristi Noem [should] resign" and that ICE "get out of these cities and these states." The speaker also called on President Donald Trump to "reign this in and take this back," and urged Republican congressional leaders to force accountability if the administration does not act.

The speaker pointed to what they described as systemic problems within ICE, alleging that "a lot of people recruited with $50,000 bonuses come work for ICE" and saying some of that training is "online training." "You would never run a law enforcement agency... with online training," the speaker said, arguing that minimal training has produced conduct "not consistent with good law enforcement practices" and is "harming public safety."

Highlighting the human impact, the speaker urged listeners to read a statement from Alex Preddy's parents, Susan and Michael Preddy, and to watch video footage of the incident. "Think about who this man was. An ICU nurse who served our veterans," the speaker said, and described seeing a bystander holding a cellphone and appearing to protect a woman ICE was approaching, noting that holding a cellphone is a First Amendment-protected activity.

Framing the remarks with legal experience, the speaker said they were speaking "as a prosecutor, as a former attorney general," and criticized early public responses to the killing as efforts to "smear Alex Preddy," calling some accounts "lies." The speaker also alleged that federal officials had erred, saying the head of the FBI appeared not to understand Second Amendment law.

The speaker accused former Attorney General Pam Bondi of making what the speaker called "outrageous, illegal, unlawful" threats to state officials—an allegation that the speaker characterized as an effort to obtain voter rolls in exchange for ICE reducing operations in a jurisdiction. The speaker also referenced a disclosed ICE memo they said instructs employees to "throw away" Fourth Amendment protections, invoking James Otis and 250 years of constitutional history in criticizing the memo's contents.

The speech closed with renewed calls for federal and congressional action to ensure accountability and with condolences for the family of Alex Preddy. "Enough is enough. This needs to stop," the speaker said.

No formal vote or motion followed these remarks in the transcript; the record contains the speaker's assertions, recommendations for political accountability, and calls for public attention and prayer for those affected.