{"id":68040,"date":"2026-03-04T09:57:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/half-of-americans-back-abolishing-ice-amid-trump-crackdown-poll-finds\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T09:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:57:25","slug":"half-of-americans-back-abolishing-ice-amid-trump-crackdown-poll-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/half-of-americans-back-abolishing-ice-amid-trump-crackdown-poll-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of Americans back abolishing ICE amid Trump crackdown, poll finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YouGov poll shows 50% support as Kristi Noem defends \u2018terrorist\u2019 claim and shutdown drags on<\/p>\n<p>Half of Americans support the abolition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ice-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)<\/a> agency, a <a href=\"https:\/\/yougov.com\/en-us\/articles\/54225-support-for-abolishing-ice-reaches-50-percent-february-27-march-2-2026-economist-yougov-poll\">new poll<\/a> has found, as opposition to Donald Trump\u2019s aggressive federal immigration crackdown continues to grow.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis by YouGov revealed that exactly 50% of respondents \u201cstrongly or somewhat\u201d want to see the agency dismantled, a 5% rise from a January poll taken between the deaths in Minnesota of US citizen protesters Renee Good and Alex Pretti by immigration officers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/04\/ice-trump-immigration-poll\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouGov poll shows 50% support as Kristi Noem defends \u2018terrorist\u2019 claim and shutdown drags on Half of Americans support the abolition of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, a new poll has found, as opposition to Donald Trump\u2019s aggressive federal immigration crackdown continues to grow. The analysis by YouGov revealed that exactly 50% of &#8230; <a title=\"Half of Americans back abolishing ICE amid Trump crackdown, poll finds\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/half-of-americans-back-abolishing-ice-amid-trump-crackdown-poll-finds\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Half of Americans back abolishing ICE amid Trump crackdown, poll finds\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}