ICE Protests Are a Chance for Democrats — and a Risk

In the less than two weeks since an ICE agent killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, public opinion on immigration has shifted. A plurality of Americans now say that federal agents are making cities more dangerous and nearly 60% disapprove of how immigration laws are being enforced. A majority believe Good’s shooting wasn’t justified and — perhaps most damning — that it “reflects bigger problems” with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Many politicians in President Donald Trump’s shoes would look at this polling and back off. Maybe tone down the rhetoric. But Trump has instead flooded Minneapolis with even more federal agents and upped the ante by threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy the military.