It seems that nothing can help MAGA support on ICE

Tuesday, a day after hundreds of thousands of Immigrants in Haiti lost their temporary protections that allow them to live and work in the US, Republican pundit Steve Bannon He wasted little time trying to get it removed immediately.

“I thought that when they pulled TPS and their eligibility for the program ended … they were getting on planes or buses today … The War Room podcast on Tuesday. “Why aren’t they out of the country?”

Mike Davis, a conservative political analyst agreed with Bannon: “The answer is to get these people out of our country as quickly as possible, and that includes Haitians.”

Nick Fuentes, who has been a vocal critic of Trump’s deportation policies because he doesn’t find them extreme, called Haitians “the worst” and “the lowest IQ people” on his Rumble show Tuesday night.

In a television show hosted by the Proud Boys of Columbus, one member posted a video for the song “I’m Walking on the Sun” along with news of the temporary removal of security. “He should be back,” the member wrote.

It’s been a while methods of confusion and fear From Immigration and Customs Enforcement it became popular across the country. For months, figures like the former head of the Border Patrol Greg Bovino dangerous cities like Minneapolis and Chicago. But since he replaced former Defense Secretary Kristi Noem with Markwayne Mullin—whom Bannon described as “Kung fu plumber”—ICE operations have declined, despite the agency’s deportation and arrest numbers they will be Astronomy.

In recent weeks, things have come to a boil again.

Earlier this month, an ICE agent was shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, Texas. Araujo lived in the country for 35 years, had three children, and had his own business. A few days later, another ICE agent was killed Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine. All these people were shot in their cars. ICE, as WIRED has revealed, is too following his critics on the Internetusing data brokers to “identifying unaccompanied minors,” and working to stop state health officials review its social security network. Tuesday, The New York Times said that the Trump administration is now targeting people entering airports whose visas have expired, or are in the process of being renewed, to arrest the spouses of American citizens.

Even so, Steve Bannon and other Republican pundits are not alone: ​​Support for ICE among loyal Trump supporters is still very high, and 74 percent of people who identify as MAGA Republicans say they trust ICE, according to a YouGov survey published last week. The same poll shows that 80 percent of MAGA Republicans oppose ending ICE.

YouGov’s findings were backed up by another survey published last week Public Religion Research Institute, which found that three-quarters of Republicans have a favorable opinion of ICE, would favor more funding for the agency, and disagreed that ICE is making communities safer. The poll also found that 73 percent of Republicans support it detention camps detaining “illegal immigrants” until they are deported.

A YouGov poll also found that only 51 percent of Republicans had read, seen, or heard anything about the refugees who were shot and killed by ICE agents this week. What they may have seen is Trump True Social post at the same time. In the post, Trump appears to be ripping off an internal ICE memo telling agents to stop the traffic stop, after all. angry response from his MAGA base. He also told his supporters that ICE was “loved and respected in America.”