ICE’s popularity is plunging
ICE’s popularity is plunging
- July 10, 2025
- Michael Tesler, political science, explains in this piece for Good Authority
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“Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) budget is set to skyrocket. The One Big Beautiful Bill will triple ICE’s annual budget, making it the largest law enforcement agency in the country.
But the “unprecedented infusion of cash” into immigration enforcement is taking place amidst Americans’ growing opposition to deportations in general and to ICE in particular.
CE was relatively popular at the start of Trump’s second term in office. The agency’s net favorability rating (favorable minus unfavorable), for instance, was +15 in a February 2-4, 2025, YouGov-Economist survey.
That +15 net rating, however, has declined sharply since then. So much so that ICE’s favorability rating was 13 points underwater (39% favorable vs 52% unfavorable) in a late-June poll by YouGov-Yahoo! And Quinnipiac University’s June 22-24, 2025, survey similarly showed that 56% of registered voters (and 64% of independents) disapproved of how ICE is doing its job.
There’s even rising public support for abolishing the agency altogether.”
Continue reading: https://goodauthority.org/news/americans-view-ice-tactics-deportations-unfavorably/
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