Amid the ongoing protests against President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant crackdown in Minnesota, right-wing media figures have revived their oft-repeated claim that there are “paid protesters and agitators” who are being compensated for their actions by some outside force. Following the fatal January 24 shooting of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse, by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis, some right-wing media figures have claimed that Pretti himself was paid to be there. In their search for a bogeyman, right-wing media have even suggested that foreign governments are somehow behind the protests.