National Nurses United (NNU), the nationwide union representing nurses, one of the most trusted professions in the United States, is responding to the murder of a fellow nurse by armed, masked federal agents in the state of Minnesota. Alex Pretti was an intensive care unit RN for the Veterans Health Administration in Minneapolis, and he was a member of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 3669, when unnamed Border Patrol agents murdered him on January 24. Although he was not a member of the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA), a chapter of NNU, the union is holding a candlelight vigil in his honor on Wednesday evening.

The vigils are part of a week of action of thousands of nurses represented by NNU across the country who are calling for justice for Pretti’s murder, including the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). They say Trump’s deployment of thousands of federal agents to Minnesota poses a threat to public health.