U.S. Rep. Jake Auchincloss, D-MA, has joined the push to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after multiple incidents involving Immigration & Customs Enforcement agents killing civilians in Minneapolis and elsewhere over the past month.

The most recent killing was that of Minneapolis ICU nurse Alex Pretti, seen protecting a woman from being beaten by ICE agents before the agents took his gun and then shot him multiple times.

“It’s an appalling incident, and it’s not just the violence that you see being done onto an American citizen by his own government,” Auchincloss said in a Tuesday appearance on WPRI. “It’s also the lies after the fact.”

After Pretti was killed, Noem went on live TV and called him a “domestic terrorist” and claimed he had brandished a gun with intent to kill ICE officers. After there was no evidence to support that claim, and after multiple videos surfaced showing ICE agents removing Pretti’s gun out of his holster and then shooting and killing him, lawmakers began calling for Noem’s firing.

“This administration is trying to gaslight the American public to disbelieve their own eyes and ears,” Auchincloss continued. “The American public isn’t going to stand for it. ICE has mushroomed over the last year into a paramilitary that operates without the respect for due process, without the professionalism that is fitting a free people. It’s a rotten agency. It needs to have root level reforms, retraining, and its leadership needs to be fired.”

This week, Noem said that she was following orders from President Donald Trump and his advisor, Stephen Miller.

“It’s more deflection by the administration,” Auchincloss said. “I mean, Kristi Noem, who didn’t even have the facts at hand before she labeled the deceased ‘domestic terrorist,’ Stephen Miller, and the vice president of the United States, are all slandering a dead U.S. citizen, as opposed to reaching out to his family to express their condolences, as opposed to supporting a full and impartial investigation led by Minnesota state and local authorities so that wrongdoing can be held accountable.”

Many in the progressive wing of the Democratic party have called for ICE—an agency created under the Homeland Security Act of 2002 in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks—to be abolished. Auchincloss is not one of them. But now, he wants conditions put on funding the agency.

The congressman posted on X last week that he intends to vote against funding ICE until reforms, including body cameras for ICE agents and prohibiting them from wearing masks, are implemented.

“ICE’s budget was already tripled in last year’s Medicaid cuts bill,” Auchincloss posted. “With more funding than every other federal law enforcement agency combined, ICE does not need more money—it needs strict oversight and accountability.”

The House has a Republican majority, but in the Senate, 60 votes are needed to avert a federal government shutdown this weekend, and those votes aren’t there. Auchincloss on Tuesday reiterated that stance and called a shutdown “completely unnecessary.”

“Senate Republicans should join Democrats on taking off masks, on ending warrantless searches and dragnet operations and on reprioritizing immigration enforcement to the border and against criminals,” he said. “Do that, and the government stays open.”