President Donald Trump on Tuesday urged the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement to “start talking about the murderers and other criminals” they deport and to “show the Numbers, Names, and Faces of the violent criminals,” arguing in a Truth Social post that doing so would make Americans “start supporting the Patriots of ICE, instead of the highly paid troublemakers, anarchists, and agitators,” comments that came as a series of recent polls showed declining public support for his anti-immigration crackdown following the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis by an ICE officer, with Trump later displaying a stack of mugshots labelled “Minnesota worst of the worst” during a White House press conference and saying, “I’m just looking at these charges. It’s pretty incredible. Many murderers, many many murderers, people that murdered,” while surveys by AP/NORC found approval of his handling of immigration had fallen to 38 per cent in January from 49 per cent last March, and polls by CNN, Quinnipiac and Economist/YouGov showed pluralities of respondents viewed Good’s shooting as unjustified and disapproved of ICE operations, including 47 per cent in the Economist/YouGov poll who said ICE made America less safe, as a CBS poll also found that 56 per cent of Americans believe the administration prioritises deportations regardless of criminal background, amid video evidence reviewed by The New York Times contradicting administration claims that Good struck the officer with her vehicle, and as Trump continued to defend ICE, threaten protesters and lawmakers, and warn he could invoke the Insurrection Act, a step he later said he did not currently see a need to take.
