People are waving around 50/50 polling on abolish ICE and in the same poll Trump’s is like 30 points under water on affordability. It’s not at all crazy for professional politicians to think there’s a bigger advantage in talking about the latter!
What ICE and CBP are doing is monstrous and public opinion is (thankfully) moving to reflect that, but it’s also true that in the same polls everyone is citing there are like 5-10 other issues he’s doing worse on.
Jan 21, 2026 00:43Read the room dude, there’s no reforming ICE, DHS, and CBP. What do you not get?
His approvals on immigration have always been higher. A couple of months ago it was his only net positive issue, iirc.
Which just goes to show that even when he had relatively broad support, he manages to royally f it up.
