Majority Disapprove Of Trump's ICE Goon Squad Raids

 

Looks increasingly like the American people are recoiling from the Malignant Fascist and his Stephen Miller/ ICE goon squad fascistic approach to "immigration enforcement":

The Trump administration claims its agents are targeting “the worst of the worst — including gang members, murderers and rapists” who have “reigned terror” on American communities. The Department of Homeland Security frequently puts out press releases publicizing the capture of these “heinous criminals.”

But on-the-ground reporting has revealed that ICE is also sweeping up otherwise law-abiding immigrants — and even some U.S. citizens — as it strives to meet the administration’s new quota of 3,000 arrests a day, up from 1,000 previously, and kick-start what Trump has described as “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.”

This shift has not proven to be popular, according to the Yahoo/YouGov survey.

Far more Americans now say they disapprove (50%) than approve (36%) of the "large-scale deportation raids in Los Angeles and other cities," for instance. Among Latino Americans (who voted for Trump last November in record numbers) that gap is bigger: 62% disapprove to 19% approve. Even independents (who tend to swing elections one way or the other) disapprove (57%) rather than approve (32%) of Trump’s ICE raids by a wide margin.

Overall, a majority of Americans (51%) now think Trump has gone too far in "arresting and deporting immigrants" — a number that’s ticked up 4 points since April. Fewer say his approach has been about right (26%) or that he hasn’t gone far enough (15%). A full 55% of independents think Trump has gone too far.

Public opinion appears to turn on who Trump is targeting for deportation. According to the Wall Street Journal, top White House aide Stephen Miller — the architect of Trump’s immigration agenda — held a testy meeting in May at ICE headquarters, where he demanded that officers do “what they needed to do” to make more arrests, including rounding up noncriminals in public places.

Miller told agents they “didn’t need to develop target lists of immigrants suspected of being in the U.S. illegally, a long-standing practice,” the Journal reported. “Instead, he directed them to target Home Depot, where day laborers typically gather for hire, or 7-Eleven convenience stores. Miller bet that he and a handful of agents could go out on the streets of Washington, D.C., and arrest 30 people right away.”

When asked to choose which immigration approach they prefer, however, just a quarter of Americans (25%) say the federal government should follow Miller’s blueprint and "round up and deport as many undocumented immigrants as possible, regardless of whether they’ve committed other crimes."...(our emphasis)

The MF's approval rating has also plummeted:

A survey of 1,597 U.S. adults, which was conducted from June 26 to June 30, finds that just 40% now approve of how Trump is handling his job as president, down from 44% in March. Meanwhile, a full 56% of Americans — up from 50% in March — currently disapprove of Trump’s performance. That’s a net swing of 10 percentage points away from the president over the last three months.

As it's been said, "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time."  Let's see if that stands the test of time over the next few years.