The Frame Nine months. Two hundred seventy-five days. That is how long Michael and Susan Pretti have waited for a straight answer about why federal immigration agents shot their son Alex in a Minneapolis parking lot. The Justice Department has not charged the agents. It has not released the autopsy. It has not explained why a routine immigration enforcement operation ended in a fatal shooting. The Prettis are not radicals. They are a middle-class couple from the suburbs who believed the system would work. Their mistake was believing the system was designed to deliver accountability. It was not. It was designed to do exactly what it is doing: absorb the shock, delay the reckoning, and protect the franchise. The Pretti case is not an aberration. It is the architecture revealing itself. The Signal What most coverage misses is the institutional logic that makes this outcome inevitable. Since 2003, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has...