58% of Americans are against ICE agents: 'They have gone too far'
Latest Ipsos-Reuters poll, violence of anti-immigration operations is taking away support from Trump
The majority of Americans are rejecting Donald Trump on immigration. The violent operation by ICE agents in Minneapolis, broadcast almost live on social media, is taking away support from the president on the distinctive theme of his domestic policy agenda: according to a Reuters-Ipsos poll, 53% of American citizens do not approve of the hard line on immigrants and only 39% continue to support the government in Washington even on arrests and deportations.
The survey was conducted between 23 and 25 January, the day on which federal forces brutally murdered nurse Alex Pretti, hitting him with ten gunshots while he was pinned to the ground. But even before that, protests against ICE were rampant in the streets of Minnesota and the United States. And with greater force after the killing, again by masked officers, of Renee Good, a mother of three who refused to get out of her car. Daily violence, arrests of children, abuses that seem to have provoked a widespread malaise in the population, and not only among left-wing activists.
The consensus for Trump's anti-immigration measures has fallen to its lowest level since his return to the White House: at the beginning of 2025, 50% of Americans were with him, the battle against 'those who exploit the country and live in the country without legal papers' was one of his strong points. And still in the first days of January the consensus was still at 41%.
According to many observers, what weighed negatively on the president's popularity was his handling of communication on immigrants: at times clumsy, at times too aggressive, especially in the face of the evidence of violence at ICE.
Trump who promised 'the largest deportation of immigrants in American history' now has to reckon with 58% of Americans, who are convinced - according to Reuters-Ipsos - that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have gone 'too far', while only 12% agree with the crackdown and 26% think the agents have been 'more or less fair'.
