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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    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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      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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        Reform is a path to failure, those in power will never allow junior members of Congress to become a threat to the status quo, they will either fall in line or be primaried.

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      I’m guessing their goals are twofold:

      1. Purge registered Dems
      2. Figure out how many votes they can manufacture without going over