A majority of Americans say they disapprove of how Immigration and Customs Enforcement is "handling their job" in a poll conducted on the day ICE removal officer Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.
The YouGov poll, conducted on Jan. 7 and released the following day, showed that 40% of respondents "strongly disapproved" and 12% "somewhat disapprove" of how the agency is operating.
A separate poll from YouGov asking respondents to describe how they would describe "the tactics currently used by ICE" released Jan. 8 showed that 51% said they were "too forceful." The polls each surveyed 2,686 U.S. adults.
A YouGov poll taken in February 2025, just after President Donald Trump took office, showed ICE had a net favorability of 16 percentage points.
The killing of Good and the injury of two people by Customs and Border Protection agents in Portland, Oregon on Jan. 8 sparked a wave of protests across the country that started Jan. 10.
