--- title: Support for Abolishing ICE Is Surging Among Republicans description: A growing share of voters back eliminating the agency following Renee Good and Alex Pretti's fatal shootings by federal agents. canonical: https://time.com/7357923/abolish-ice-polls-minneapolis-shootings-alex-pretti-renee-good-trump-immigration/ author: Rebecca Schneid article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2026-01-26T19:33:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-11T00:50:25.331Z article:section: Politics og:title: Support for Abolishing ICE Is Surging Among Republicans og:description: A growing share of voters back eliminating the agency following the fatal shootings by federal agents in Minneapolis. og:url: https://time.com/7357923/abolish-ice-polls-minneapolis-shootings-alex-pretti-renee-good-trump-immigration/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfb6d1c1f6b2d0c72/6998cd1e25f3ee0bd764555d/GettyImages-2255538650_a80118.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Minnesota Sues Noem Over ICE Tactics After Fatal Shooting og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Support for Abolishing ICE Is Surging Among Republicans twitter:description: A growing share of voters back eliminating the agency following the fatal shootings by federal agents in Minneapolis. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfb6d1c1f6b2d0c72/6998cd1e25f3ee0bd764555d/GettyImages-2255538650_a80118.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Support for Abolishing ICE Is Surging Among Republicans > Sponsored content. 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Blue—Bloomberg via Getty Images  by [Rebecca Schneid](https://time.com/author/rebecca-schneid/)  ## Rebecca Schneid Reporter Jan 26, 2026 7:33 PM UTC In the wake of the killings of [Renee Nicole Good](https://time.com/7345319/ice-shootings-renee-good/) and [Alex Jeffrey Pretti](https://time.com/7357687/alex-pretti-ice-minneapolis/) by federal agents amid the Trump Administration’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, voters’ support for [abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement](https://time.com/7346014/ice-protests-renee-nicole-good-democrats/) (ICE) is spiking—including among President Donald Trump’s own party. A new [YouGov poll](https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2026/01/25/8b8cc/4) taken on Saturday, the day of Pretti’s fatal shooting, showed 19 percent of Republicans and 48 percent of American adults across the political spectrum voicing support for abolishing ICE. That marks a notable shift from when YouGov pollsters [asked the same question](https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabReport%5FB2kkifF.pdf) last June, as Trump was ramping up his immigration crackdown. At that time only 9 percent of Republicans and 27 percent of Americans overall backed abolishing ICE. Support for shuttering the agency has also surged among independents, with 47 percent backing its elimination in the Saturday poll compared to 25 percent in June. **Read More:** [_What Minnesota Tells Us About America’s Future_](https://time.com/7345210/renee-nicole-good-minneapolis-ice-shooting-protests-george-floyd-trump/) Good and Pretti’s fatal shootings have heightened scrutiny of the aggressive tactics being used by federal immigration agents under Trump’s second Administration. Following Pretti’s killing, several congressional Republicans have joined Democrats in [calling for an investigation](https://time.com/7357837/republicans-call-for-investigation-minneapolis-fatal-shooting-ice-agents/) into the incident. Other recent polls have shown support declining for how Trump is carrying out the mass deportation effort that he successfully campaigned on in 2024 as ICE’s operations in the interior U.S. come under fire. A [New York _Times_/Siena poll](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/upshot/trump-poll-analysis-times-siena.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.GVA.1RQR.ojsbT9z-9lEU) conducted from January 12 to 17, after Good’s killing on January 7, found that a majority of voters disapproved of Trump’s handling of several issues—immigration included—and ​​49 percent said the country was worse off than a year ago, compared with 32 percent who said it was better off. Regarding immigration specifically, 58 percent of respondents disapproved of how Trump was handling the issue, up from 52 percent in a previous _Times_/Siena poll conducted in September. A larger portion of around half of respondents backed the Administration’s deportation of illegal immigrants and the President’s handling of the U.S.’s southern border in the recent poll. But the reality of ICE’s enforcement tactics drew censure from most Americans: 61 percent—including 19 percent of Republicans, compared to 94 percent of Democrats and 71 percent of independents—said that ICE tactics had “gone too far.” Trump attacked the _Times_/Siena poll [on Truth Social](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115939791935000343) the day it was released, calling the results “fake” and “heavily skewed toward Democrats.” (Among the registered voters who responded to the poll, 45 percent identified as Democrats or Democratic-leaning compared to 44 percent who identified as Republicans or Republican-leaning.) In a separate post, he said that “Fake and Fraudulent Polling should be, virtually, a criminal offense.” Yet, the poll is part of a larger trend of surveys that have documented growing disapproval of ICE’s tactics, especially after Good’s deadly shooting, which sparked protests in [Minneapolis](https://time.com/7357523/minnesota-ice-protest-business-immigration-minneapolis/) and [around the country](https://www.google.com/search?q=time+magazine+ice+protests&oq=time+magazine+ice+protests&gs%5Flcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQRRg9MgYIAhBFGEAyBggDEEUYQDIGCAQQRRhA0gEIMzUyMWowajeoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8), and follows a longer decline in support for Trump’s handling of immigration. A poll [conducted for CNN by SSRS](https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26474159/cnn-poll-immigration-minneapolis-ice.pdf) from January 9 to 12 found that 56 percent of respondents said that the shooting was an "inappropriate use of force” by federal officers, and 51 percent said that ICE enforcement actions were making cities less safe rather than safer. More than half of independent respondents were among those who said that ICE enforcement was making cities less safe. And while a majority of Republicans—56 percent—said the shooting represented an appropriate use of force, 21 percent said it was an inappropriate use of force, with 7 percent saying it was inappropriate but an isolated incident and 14 percent saying it was both inappropriate and reflected a bigger problem with ICE’s operations. Another survey, taken by [Ipsos](https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/many-americans-view-ice-shooting-minneapolis-excessive-use-force) January 16 to 18, similarly found that 52 percent of Americans felt Good’s shooting marked an excessive use of force, including 19 percent of Republicans and 54 percent of independents. And a separate poll by [Quinnipiac](https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3944) conducted from January 8 to 12 found that 57 percent of registered voters disapproved of ICE’s handling of immigration enforcement, including 64 percent of independents and 12 percent of Republicans. Backing for Trump’s broader handling of immigration had also been falling for months even before the recent shootings, according to a number of polls. Recent approval numbers on the issue differ markedly from polling taken in the weeks after Trump took office last year. A Pew Research Center [survey](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/02/07/what-americans-think-about-trumps-immigration-actions-early-in-his-second-term/#:~:text=47%25%20approve%20of%20Trump%27s%20plans,U.S%2C%20while%2055%25%20disapprove.) taken last February, for instance, found that 59 percent of U.S. adults said they approved of Trump increasing efforts to deport people. In December, in contrast, Pew found that 53 percent of Americans said he was doing “too much” to deport illegal immigrants, with that sentiment rising among both Democrat sand Republicans. That approval of Trump’s immigration agenda [was already waning](https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/abc-news-washington-post-ipsos-april-2025#:~:text=Immigration-,Since%20the%20beginning%20of%202025%2C%20approval%20of%20President%20Trump's,of%20immigration%20has%20softened%20slightly&text=Washington%20DC%2C%20April%2025%2C%202025,or%20policies%20divide%20the%20country.&text=Detailed%20findings:,his%20job%20on%20the%20issue.) by the spring and summer. 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