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.
I mean data is good, right? “Knowledge is power”? Maybe it’s the engineer in me but getting many snapshots in time and seeing the trends is kind of important. I’ll take this over anecdotal speculation any day.
garbage in - garbage out is the basic problem with using polls to explain every fracture within every issue. There’s also a deeper problem of trying to quantify what is ultimately not quantifiable. Polls can maybe give you a hint about changing moods but the reality of what is changing and why can’t be captured in numbers. What you can sample is the rate at which a mood is changing, which I acknowledge isn’t nothing but it’s also very limited.
And that’s without getting into the variety of ways polls are manipulated or outright rigged…
Whilst I agree in some senses, I also question their use. It doesn’t really matter until there’s an election and even then, they seem to be often wrong as people don’t vote logically and often against their interests.
These kinds of polls are more for people to say “phew, I’m glad I’m not the only one who doesn’t like ICE”. It’s a peace-of-mind poll which achieves nothing of actual substance.