GOSHEN – ICE agent killings of two Americans during protests in Minneapolis is being condemned by Orange County Executive Steven Neuhaus.

Just this year, Renee Good and Alex Pretti were shot and killed by federal agents and Neuhaus told Mid-Hudson News was a terrible thing.

“Regardless of why those two individuals showed up at the protest, and the fact that they both died of another American, to me, is a terrible thing,” he said. “It’s not a car accident, it’s not cancer, it’s not being attacked by a terrorist group – it’s dying at the hands of another American, and but for that situation, they would have been alive today. That’s a horrible thing.”

Orange County has written to Homeland Security objecting to the proposal to convert a vacant warehouse in Chester into an ICE detention center. Neuhaus said it is wrong on several environmental levels. He also said in addition to using the 400,000 square foot building, outside fenced in area would be constructed, making the site appear like a prisoner of war camp.

The county executive said the State Attorney General, DEC and Office of Historic Preservation have also spoken out against the proposal.