"I wouldn't say he's concerned about the policy,"
"He wants deportations. He wants mass deportations. What he doesn't want is what people are seeing. He doesn't like the way it looks. It looks bad, so he's expressed some discomfort at that."
"There's the right way to do this. And this doesn't look like the right way to a lot of people."
Private GOP polling indicates ICE's aggressive deportation raids risk rupturing the coalition of independent, moderate and minority voters that powered the 2024 victory. Those voters will play a decisive role in whether Republicans retain a slim House majority in the November midterms. Losing the House would make the president a lame duck and increase the risk of a third impeachment. Some advisers favor a more constrained ICE approach to address optics, and several House Republicans have expressed concern. The raids dominate news coverage, undermining White House messaging on cost-of-living issues. December polling and a fatal Minneapolis shooting intensified reputational damage to ICE.
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