More than half of Americans believe that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has gone “too far” in its pursuit of arresting migrants, according to a new poll.

While 54 percent said ICE has used its power too aggressively, the sentiment was even greater among Democrats at 83%, according to a poll by PBS News, NP and Marist.

Nearly half of Republicans, by contrast, said ICE’s actions are appropriate and an additional 31% said the agency had not gone far enough in enforcing Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.

The vast majority of Americans (80%) support the U.S. government’s deportation of migrants without permanent legal status who have been convicted of a violent crime.

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    7 hours ago

    More than just grift… this is the new militant wing of MAGA. They’re a new branch of armed forces that operate entirely on our soil. We’ve got concentration camps opening, we’ve got a MASSIVELY funded brown-shirts, and dark tech civilian-profiling AI behind all that… This is pretty much my worst fears from last November coming to life.

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      7 hours ago

      I hope it turns out to be just a big embezzlement scheme like everything in the US.

      It is a little bizarre those that were screaming about Obama’s death camps are now cheering on Trump’s Alligator Alcatraz. Truly propaganda, misinformation, public relations, etc. should be tightly regulated or just outright banned in order to have a functional society.