The vigil is being held in a town currently dealing with its own ICE concerns.

Last night, about 200 nurses and supporters clustered outside UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, candles in hand, to protest the killing of Minneapolis ICU nurse Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents.

The nation’s nurses, who make it their mission to care for and save human lives, are horrified and outraged that immigration agents have once again committed cold-blooded murder of a public observer who posed no threat to them.

The nation’s largest union of registered nurses fervently renewed their demand to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement and cease current deportation operations in American cities after a federal immigration agent shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old registered nurse, in Minneapolis on Saturday.

The Minnesota crackdown, which began late last year, surged to unprecedented levels in January when the Department of Homeland Security said it would send 2,000 federal agents and officers to the Minneapolis area in what it called the largest-ever immigration enforcement operation.

National Nurses United announced today that RNs are outraged and mobilizing to hold an entire week of ongoing candlelight vigils to not only honor and seek justice for the murder by federal immigration agents of fellow registered nurse Alex Pretti,

Federal immigration agents shot and killed VA ICU nurse Alex Pretti on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis Saturday morning.