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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[–] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (26 children)

Good sign overall ahead of midterms this year. I'd much rather this than see more of the country cheering this on.

Register and vote Democrat.

Edit: Democratic Primaries are coming first, and IF you don't know for a fact that your state has Open Primaries, then you must register Democrat in order to try to vote in more progressive Democratic candidates and vote out aipac trash from the party.

Edit 2: Whew, lots of wedge-driving bots from .ml and hexbear asserting classic false-equivalence whataboutism fallacies in order to sow defeatism and apathy.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Register unaffiliated. Vote Democrat.

    Especially if you're in a red or Trump x 3 state.

    Texas sent their voter registration list to DHS. We can all take wild guesses as to what they are going to do with it...but personally, I don't want to be on a curated list of "political targets opponents".

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    I understand your concern, though one should register as a Democrat at least temporarily unless you know your state has Open Primaries if you want to reform the Democratic party.

    If you want to vote to get AIPAC and corporate Dems out in primaries and put better ones in, then you must register Dem for closed primaries.

    Worth noting that all the information on your demographics and behaviors is already easily curated from what the state and corporations already have on us, unfortunately.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (20 children)

    Democrats have contributed to the situation we are in.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (19 children)

    Democrats are the only way to improve the situation we are in.

    (Audience beware the lemmy.ml / hexbear poster who submits garbage like, "Republicans are honest fascists. Democrats are fascists in disguise." lol.)

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    Then why have the material conditions for the working class gotten worse over the last 25 years when your Democrats have been in power for 13 of them? Democrats are covert fascists

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  • [–] -3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    You don't understand how Congress works, do you?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    It's working exactly as designed. I know your next stage is to blame Republicans for obstruction, but why is it Republicans get everything they want regardless if they hold the majority and if they hold the minority? Yet Democrats are ineffective in both scenarios.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (14 children)

    Ehh the Democrats ounce In power will undoubtedly increase ice funding just make it less blatant so no they aren't a solution.

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  • [+] -7 points 10 months ago* (13 children)

    Ehhh this is total bullshit speculation not even grounded in historical reality.

    Give me the Biden days over these Trump days any day and spare me the false equivalence trope that is convenient for Republicans.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

    Except it's exactly what Biden did in 2020 and what Harris promised to do if she won so very grounded.

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

    Except it's really not.

    Anyone who thinks Renee Good would've been shot and killed under Biden or Harris administration are patently delusional and enabling Trumpian dogma.

    Anyone want to play a game of identifying how many ICE murders there were between all of Obama and Biden administrations versus Trump?

    Edit: Back, tankies! Back I say!

    Your friendly reminder that these two images are banned in their respective leaders' nations, and that by viewing them from your location puts you at risk for prison time in your country, should you reside there!

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    The only place those images are banned are in the minds of liberals that believe the propaganda that they are banned in their respective countries

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (4 children)

    That's incorrect. They are absolutely banned in their respective countries. Do you need sources on this?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    You gonna provide Western sources for your claim, the same ones claiming they are illegal?

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Your English is poor. You aren't winning social points for this unconvincing apologist rhetoric. Or is this punishment already for an infraction? Perhaps mentioning Uyghurs, Tibetans, Hong Kong, or Taiwan sovereignty?

    I wonder if one expects unbiased sources from within a totalitarian regime like North Korea or China going, "Yep! We totally oppress!" haha. So what sources DO you trust? I'm curious!

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    ICE saw their largest increase of federal funding under Biden. Democrats provide a gun to Republicans than try to act surprised when they use it

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