ICE Raids Put 49% Poll Backlash on Vulnerable Republicans Weeks Before Midterms
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Updated · POLITICO · Sep 27
ICE Raids Put 49% Poll Backlash on Vulnerable Republicans Weeks Before Midterms
3 articles · Updated · POLITICO · Sep 27
Summary
Kansas raids this week shut businesses in four rural towns and pushed schools to plan for parents being detained, forcing GOP Sen. Roger Marshall to publicly fault ICE’s lack of local coordination.
That disruption is spreading across battleground states as Republicans in Texas, Florida and Maine distance themselves from parts of Trump’s deportation push while Democrats turn shootings, deaths and detentions into campaign issues.
DHS is still defending a record-high arrest campaign as Trump’s promised mass deportation drive, even after Secretary Markwayne Mullin was tasked in March with keeping enforcement out of the headlines.
A new POLITICO poll found 49% of U.S. adults say the deportation campaign is too aggressive, while business groups warn raids are hitting labor supply, sales and beef and construction operations.