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.
My guess is that another ~10%, many of whom probably don’t know that ICE hasn’t existed for a very long time and that it’s post-9/11 power grab bullshit, just want to reduce it’s powers to what they were doing before Trump because they think it’s neccessry for anti-terrorism or something.
(I support abolishing ICE 100% btw, but we gotta learn how to communicate to that other 10%…my mom is against abolishing ICE and she spends more time complaining about Trump than I do.)