More Americans Support Abolishing ICE Than Ever Before, Polling Data Shows
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ICE’s approval rating among Americans currently sits at negative 13 points, a recent poll revealed.

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.

  • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    57·
    4 months ago

    I don’t care who is president, they ain’t abolishing ICE. The fed govt won’t give up this power now that it’s been granted it. Just ask em to undo the Patriot Act while you’re at it.

    • Skiluros@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      21·
      4 months ago

      Here is a counter-arguement. It is the responsibility of the citizens to make sure things like the Patriot Act or ICE are used in a fair manner with oversight and restrictions.

      The notion that “the government” is some external entity is an easy and satisfying polemic, but it’s not helpful in a practical sense.

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
      5·
      4 months ago

      Politically, dismantling an agency that’s intended to improve public safety can only ever backfire on whoever supports it, regardless of how unpopular that agency is.

      Imagine if TSA were to be dismantled, and a year later we have another 9/11. Whoever supported dismantling the TSA would never work in public service again.

      It’s the political equivalent of blowing out the pilot light and telling your kid to play with matches inside the oven.