More than half of Americans believe that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has gone “too far” in its pursuit of arresting migrants, according to a new poll.

While 54 percent said ICE has used its power too aggressively, the sentiment was even greater among Democrats at 83%, according to a poll by PBS News, NP and Marist.

Nearly half of Republicans, by contrast, said ICE’s actions are appropriate and an additional 31% said the agency had not gone far enough in enforcing Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.

The vast majority of Americans (80%) support the U.S. government's deportation of migrants without permanent legal status who have been convicted of a violent crime.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 58 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

The fuck are these 17% Democrats who are down with tax dollars paying for masked badgeless plainclothes abductions into unmarked vehicles?

  • source
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    welcome to the wolfman constant. always assume any polling data over ~65% is an overwhelming majority and that ~75% or more effectively indicates "everyone with a functioning brain"

    then think about that 95% of black women voted against this

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    wolfman constant

    DDG isn't giving me any returns for this, can you ELI5?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    in any given population 15% will believe they've encountered a wolfman. i'll try to find you the info, but basically it's about how when sampling data for what a collective believes you'll always find some absolute kooks

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    TIL about the wolfman constant. I never had a clever name for it, but I had the "hopeless dipshit percentage" at 25 to 33%. That's the number of people who can't name a single branch of the US government, think Obama is a Kenyan citizen, think Sadam Hussein caused 9/11, think astrology is real science, and professed that they would support Trump literally no matter what he said or did.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    Same. The moment the other person said "75% is everyone with a functioning brain," I immediately thought of the ever present 25-35% of some population are in favor of "horrible metric". Then just apply this to everything.

  • source
  • parent