The Daily Populous Sunday July 6th, 2025 night edition
Authored by latintimes.com and submitted by Silly-avocatoe

More than half of Americans believe Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has "gone too far" when implementing President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, according to a new survey.

Concretely, the Marist poll showed that 54% of respondents agreed with the mentioned premise, while 26% said actions have been "about right" and 18% claimed ICE has "not gone far enough." The poll surveyed 1,381 U.S. adults between June 23 and 25.

The partisan divide was present in responses. Over 4 in 5 Democrats (83%) said the agency has gone too far, a view shared by 59% of independents. However, almost half of all Republicans (49%) believe ICE's actions have been mostly acceptable.

Figures varied when respondents were asked about whether immigrants with and without criminal records should be deported. Over 9 in 10 Republicans (91%) said they should be deported, while 75% of Democrats agreed. 59% of all respondents said they favor deporting migrants found guilty of a nonviolent crimes. However, the figure is comprised by 86% of Republicans and 36% of Democrats.

As for deporting immigrants working in industries like agriculture or food service, over half (55%) opposed doing so. The figure was comprised by 77% of Democrats and 26% of Republicans.

Trump, however, has acknowledged the risks associated with mass deportations in these industries, whose workers are mostly migrants. He said this week that his administration is developing a "temporary pass" system that would allow undocumented workers in the agricultural and hospitality industries to continue working legally under employer oversight, marking a potential shift in immigration enforcement policy.

"We're working on it right now," Trump said in a Fox News interview. "We're going to work it so that some kind of a temporary pass [is created] where people pay taxes, where the farmer can have a little control, as opposed to you walk in and take everybody away."

Trump framed the proposal as a response to concerns from farmers and hospitality businesses who say immigration enforcement has removed experienced laborers and harming the industry. "When we go into a farm and we take away people that have been working there for 15 and 20 years, who were good, who possibly came in incorrectly... you end up destroying a farmer," Trump said. "It's a problem." According to DHS data, about 42% of U.S. farm workers between 2020 and 2022 lacked legal status.

2pinacoladas on July 5th, 2025 at 15:24 UTC »

ICE just got 265% budget increase. It's about to get a whole lot worse.

tacs97 on July 5th, 2025 at 15:23 UTC »

We ain’t seen shit yet! This was all done on a budget of 2.5 billion a year. Cheeto and his cronies decided that the agency needs 140billion a year! We’re all fucked!!

roofbandit on July 5th, 2025 at 15:15 UTC »

They haven't even gotten started