"And the public's response to what it is seeing on TV screens and reading about in publications and so forth suggests that people, they want the border closed, they want criminal illegals rounded up, but they see these scenes in the street, particularly the two killings in Minnesota and they see people who seem otherwise innocent, although they may be here illegally rounded up, they don't like that."
"It suggests that while the administration was within its limits its legal limits in this immigration crackdown and the dragnet that's going on, particularly out in Minnesota, it has hit its political limits. We have a compassionate people, and even illegal immigrants are not beyond the scope of that compassion. I think the administration is being seen as having gone too far on this, and the polls certainly suggest that."
A recent poll found 59% of registered voters believe ICE has been too heavy-handed, a 10-point rise since last July, and 55% disapprove of the president's handling of immigration. The administration deployed roughly 3,000 Border Patrol and ICE agents to Minnesota, where two U.S. citizens were fatally shot during operations. A Border Patrol commander was withdrawn from the state and is set to be reassigned before retiring. Public reactions to televised and reported scenes, including the Minnesota killings and arrests of people who appear otherwise innocent, have softened support for aggressive deportation tactics.
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