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No Matter How Much The Left Wants To Riot, Americans Still Support ICE And Want Deportations
Federalist ^ | June 19, 2025 | Breccan F. Thies

Posted on 06/20/2025 11:34:54 AM PDT by george76

No matter how much left-wing agitators want to riot to oppose enforcing immigration law, the American people still support Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and deporting illegals.

That is the takeaway from a new Harvard/Harris poll taken in the middle of the Los Angeles anti-ICE riots that have been excused by Democrat leadership like city Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom.

In fact, 80 percent of respondents in the poll support a plan to deport criminal illegal aliens, which clocks in at the second most popular overall policy proposal (of 15) after lowering prescription drug prices for the elderly and low-income Americans. When asked more specifically if respondents favored what the Trump administration is doing to achieve the deportations, 74 percent agreed, including 57 percent of Democrats and 75 percent of independents.

The fifth most popular policy proposal is closing “the border with added security and policies that discourage illegal crossings,” with 67 percent support.

While the general goals of immigration enforcement are supported by a majority of Americans, Democrats have tried to demonize ICE and President Donald Trump’s decision to send in the National Guard to protect ICE agents and provide riot control.

Fifty-six percent of Americans favor Trump calling in the National Guard to “help suppress anti-ICE riots,” including a majority of independents and nearly 30% of Democrats.

A majority (55 percent) also said Trump should “deploy the national guard to protect federal agents and property when local city and state law enforcement won’t act.” Similarly, 71 percent of respondents want local police to help ICE if they get attacked by rioters, and 65 percent of Democrats agree.

These views, including from Democrats, are bolstered by separate polling that shows Trump well above water on approval for his immigration policies, with 49 percent approving and only 33 percent disapproving. That poll found that about 25% of Americans who voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris also support Trump’s immigration policies.

The Harvard/Harris poll does appear to have some ideological inconsistencies, however, which are difficult to decipher.

For example, only 41 percent of respondents believe that Democrat elected officials of the so-called “sanctuary cities” are encouraging violence against federal immigration enforcement officers. While 67 percent of Republicans believe they are, 59 percent of Democrats and 62 percent of independents do not believe that is the case.

Bass, for her part, effectively threatened more violence and resistance to ICE officers unless and until they leave Los Angeles, as The Federalist reported.

That being said, a majority (54 percent) of respondents also favored an approach of waiting to see how Trump’s immigration enforcement policies play out over the next two weeks, as opposed to going full opposition mode against Trump. Seventy-six percent of Democrats want to go full resistance mode, while 80 percent of Republicans want to wait and see, along with 58 percent of independents.

In another seemingly incoherent response, in the context of the other statistics, 55 percent of respondents also blame the Trump administration’s immigration policies and sending the National Guard for contributing to the riots in Los Angeles, where 45 percent blames Bass and Newsom for “calling to resist federal agents and not deploying the police to stop violence.”

That being said, Bass’s and Newsom’s favorability ratings are extraordinarily low, at 17 percent and 29 percent, respectively.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: deportations; ice

1 posted on 06/20/2025 11:34:54 AM PDT by george76
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To: george76

I hear that Mexican flags are going like hotcakes in blue, sanctuary cities of death. The same with Avocados and Corona beer. They’re calling it the Chunky Schumer Siesta Brunch Special.


2 posted on 06/20/2025 11:41:37 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Correction! America is a nation of LEGAL IMMIGRANTS! All of mine came here legally. No free stuff.)
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To: george76

Anarchists always love to riot about anything.

Born to hate seed


3 posted on 06/20/2025 11:43:19 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: george76

This is no surprise at all. The rioters are a small core of paid professional anarchists. They don’t represent a popular uprising.


4 posted on 06/20/2025 11:49:51 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: george76

The way “activism” has worked since the sixties is you get a whole bunch of hotheads together and provoke a riot. The idea is to “raise awareness,” meaning to scare ordinary people into agreeing with whatever the “activism” is about. It could be gay marriage, pro-abortion, letting in illegals for whatever perceived advantage that is to the “activists,” etc. The pay for the participants is, that although they have zero interests in whatever is being “activated” they get to go “shopping” at no cost.

It has been my opinion that the people organizing this, and paying for it, are committing a RICO crime. I have never seen an attempt to prosecute the activist organizers and financiers. My suspicion is they are also the organizers and financiers of Democrats in general and a lot of prosecutors. I’m hoping that this will change under Trump.

Once there’s one good, solid prosecution of an NGO and some activist leaders and financiers go to prison, life will get a whole lot better for a whole lot of innocent citizens.

If I’m wrong about RICO, I’d appreciate it if someone sets me straight.


5 posted on 06/20/2025 11:51:14 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (I had a tagline and I dropped it. The cat back-pawed it under the Barcalounger. )
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To: george76

their headline;
“No Matter How Much The Left Wants To Riot, Americans Still Support ICE And Want Deportations”

My comment:
Yes, and actually the more the Left riots, the more Americans support ICE and deportations.

the violence and riots are a self-defeating tactic for the commie/nazi/progressive leftists


6 posted on 06/20/2025 11:55:05 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: faithhopecharity

A few gunships in the air and a few rioters turned into crispy critters would put an end to a lot of foolishness.


7 posted on 06/20/2025 12:09:30 PM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all antisemites)
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To: Gen.Blather

Where’s Pambi ?


8 posted on 06/20/2025 12:33:39 PM PDT by A strike (Make RealID required for voting )
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To: Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi

Indeed.


9 posted on 06/20/2025 12:42:28 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: A strike

“Where’s Pambi ?”

When people ask, why isn’t the government doing this or that, I think about my recent yearlong interaction with the IRS. You’d think since a had a cancelled check showing I had made the requisite payment on time, and they had cashed it, there would be no issue. Probably ten letters, forty phone calls and involving Senator Rubio’s office you’d that the issue would have been easily resolved. Finally, they agreed to repay the amount they owed me. Not because the problem was resolved but because I got a high-powered enrolled agent to show them, they didn’t have any records at all and therefore my records with their account numbers prevailed. It was a huge effort. Expensive and emotionally draining.

I had the opportunity to chat with two employees working for Florida’s senators. I asked them if every federal agency was this difficult to deal with. They answered yes.

It may be that Pam Bondi is on the case, but it might take years to get any real action.

It might take a presidential secretary to walk down into the deep bowels of an agency and find the person sitting on whatever and threatening to walk him out to get the action that’s needed. My understanding is some of that has happened.


10 posted on 06/20/2025 12:58:16 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (I had a tagline and I dropped it. The cat back-pawed it under the Barcalounger. )
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To: Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi

or maybe a spare Tesla or two might accidentally roll into the mob and, as they’re reportedly so prone to doing, catch fire?


11 posted on 06/20/2025 1:18:08 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: faithhopecharity

“as they’re reportedly so prone to doing, catch fire?”

Fire Frequency:

EV - 25 fires per 100,000 vehicles (2023)

ICE - 1,500 fires per 100,000 vehicles annually

https://www.blazestack.com/blog/8-differences-between-ev-and-internal-combustion-engine-vehicle-fires


12 posted on 06/20/2025 1:21:11 PM PDT by TexasGator
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