Few Dems Favor Calls To Abolish ICE, Poll Finds
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The rallying cry from some liberals to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement isn't a likely winner this election year. A new poll finds only a quarter of Democrats support eliminating the agency that carried out the Trump administration's policy of separating immigrant children from their parents.
But even as they don't want to dismantle ICE, 57 percent of Democrats view the agency negatively, including nearly three-fourths of those who describe themselves as liberal.
That's according to a poll released Monday by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Overall, opinions about ICE are divided along partisan lines. A majority of Democrats view the agency negatively. Republicans largely have favorable views of ICE.
A full one-third of Americans also say they're too unfamiliar with the agency to form an opinion.
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