Do Democrats Think They Can Skate On ICE To The Midterms?
I & I Editorial Board
February 4, 2026
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With nothing else to run on, Democrats appear to think that demonizing Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers will be enough to win them control of Congress come November.
“In their campaigns, Democrats across the country are responding to the anger felt by many communities over the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations,” reports CBS News. If they can sustain today’s anger, the argument goes, voters will turn out in droves to clip the Trump administration’s wings in his last two years in office.
But there are a multitude of reasons why this strategy isn’t likely to work.
First, November is a long way off. And anything can happen between now and then that will shift the public’s attention.
Second, deportations aren’t necessarily a winning issue for Democrats. Polls on this are decidedly mixed.
A new survey by RealClear Opinion Research finds that, while 48% of respondents say immigration policy is worse than a year ago, the public is still far more supportive of Trump’s approach than Biden’s open-border chaos (by a margin of 43% to 28%)
A poll by Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton’s America One Policies PAC finds that a whopping 78% agree that the government should deport immigrants who are in the country illegally and have criminal records, 56% support deporting illegals who came within the last four years.
“The basic takeaway here is that, according to the PAC’s polling, Americans are comfortable with deportation, but ICE needs to change its tactics,” as Punchline puts it.
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