Trump’s post came two days after the death of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, and one week after ICE officers shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, Texas. Both men were shot in their vehicles, like Renée Good in Minneapolis in January. Her death, and the death of Alex Pretti that same month, coincided with a sharp decline in support for ICE, according to polling at the time.
While Democrats and Independents showed the highest levels of dissatisfaction, with 93% (up from 83%) and 71% (up from 59%) saying they thought ICE actions had “gone too far,” Republicans also showed an increase, at 27% (up from 20%).
The surveys suggest Trump's characterization overstates public sentiment. While Republicans remain broadly supportive of ICE—with 3 in 4 agreeing that ICE was doing a good job as of February—Americans overall expressed more negative than positive views of the agency and its recent enforcement tactics.
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"We are always evaluating our procedures to keep our officers safe and criminals off our streets,” an ICE spokesperson said in a statement to TIME on Tuesday. “We will not disclose or discuss law enforcement tactics."
“We must be strong, tough, and smart, and we CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.’s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!” he wrote. “Once we do, we are playing right into the criminal’s hands.”
Trump has repeatedly implied that immigrants are prone to criminal activity, despite evidence that immigrants commit significantly less crime than native-born Americans. That unfounded claim was repeated in his post.
The Congressional Budget Office estimated that net immigration totaled about 8.3 million from 2021 to 2024, while Customs and Border Protection reported over 10 million encounters with individuals attempting to enter the U.S. The House Committee on Homeland Security, citing Border Patrol, estimated that another 2 million people likely crossed the border undetected during that time period.
Trump’s assertion comes as Americans express increasingly positive views of immigration.
Taken together, polling this year suggests that Americans distinguish between immigration itself, the enforcement of immigration laws, and the resources and tactics used to carry out that enforcement. A Reuters-Ipsos poll from January showed that 7 in 10 Americans are “paying close attention” to federal efforts to deal with unauthorized entry into the U.S.
A majority of Americans are in favor of requiring agents to wear body cameras (84%), requiring agents to have judicial warrants to enter homes (69%), banning agents from entering schools or churches (66%), banning agents from stopping people based solely on their race or ethnicity (64%)—a measure the shadow docket of the Supreme Court permitted in September 2025—and banning agents from wearing face masks (55%), the Reuters-Ipsos poll found.
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