ICE’s approval rating among Americans currently sits at negative 13 points, a recent poll revealed.

More Americans support abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency than at any point since it was established in 2003, new polling shows.

According to data examined by Civiqs, 42% support getting rid of the agency while 50% oppose doing so, a split of just 8 points. This represents a major shift from a year ago, at the start of Donald Trump’s second term, when only 24% of Americans supported abolishing ICE and 59% opposed the idea, a 35-point split.

The 27-point change over the past year comes as Trump uses the agency to terrorize immigrant communities and overrun U.S. cities in the name of his mass deportation campaign, often using tactics that are not only harmful but illegal.

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    7 hours ago

    Just ask em to undo the Patriot Act while you’re at it.

    Unironically, yeah, we can do that.

    We’re gonna get the first fair Dem presidential primary in decades, and in the general the “not maga” vote that even got Biden elected in 2020.

    If we spend time telling progressives to vote in the primary, we can have a FDR style candidate. If we keep shiting on the current party for what it’s predecessors did, then it’ll depress primary turnout and that same wing snatches the party back.

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      We’re gonna get the first fair Dem presidential primary in decades, and in the general the “not maga” vote that even got Biden elected in 2020

      Lol we’re gonna get Gavin fucking newsom

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        If people tune out of the primary, which is why the most important thing right now is making people aware the party changed directions.

        Billionaire owned media won’t tell anyone