Polls show most Republicans back Trump’s immigration enforcement after Minneapolis shootings

New polls released after the killing of two Minneapolis protesters show a vast majority of Republicans still support President Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement, according to surveys by Ipsos and the Pew Research Center. The Ipsos poll, conducted entirely after Alex Pretti was shot, found 62 percent of Americans said they thought Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers had gone too far in dealing with unauthorized immigration, up modestly from 58 percent in a Reuters/Ipsos poll taken just before the shooting.

Much of the increase came from Republicans: 30 percent now say enforcement has gone too far, up from 20 percent before the shooting. Most Republicans in the Ipsos survey still described enforcement as about right (45 percent) or not far enough (22 percent). Other surveys taken around the same time, including Pew and a Fox News poll that was in the field when Mr.

Pretti was shot, show a modest shift among Republicans and a divide within the party—nearly half of Republicans who describe themselves as "non-MAGA Republicans" said they think ICE has been too aggressive. The polling followed the deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis, after which Mr.

Trump said he may "de-escalate a little bit" and removed Gregory Bovino, a senior Border Patrol official, from the city. Voters quoted in the reporting expressed mixed views: James Wright, who said he voted for Mr.

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