“The Trump administration spin on this simply isn’t believable.”

That’s was the evaluation of the editorial board of the right-leaning Wall Street Journal in an editorial Sunday local time calling for a “pause” in Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) anti-immigrant blitz.

The unusual step from the WSJ followed Saturday’s killing of 37-year-old intensive care nurse Alex Petti, who was disarmed before being shot by federal agents in Minneapolis, and amid top administration officials’ claims that the man who helped save US military veterans’ lives was a “domestic terrorist.”

The WSJ editors called Pretti’s killing “the worst incident to date in what is becoming a moral and political debacle” for President Donald Trump and his administration.

The WSJ wasn’t alone. Other right-wing outlets owned by the Murdoch media empire, including the New York Post, published editorials calling for a suspension of Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants, during which dozens of people have died in ICE custody and federal enforcers have killed two Americans.

Even the staunchly pro-Trump Fox News challenged administration officials over the shooting.

“It’s time to de-escalate in Minneapolis, Mr President,” the Post‘s editorial board wrote Sunday.

“Not because........

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