Poll: Despite Anti-ICE Campaign, Illegal Immigration Still a Losing Issue for Democrats
“Strikingly, a quarter of all Kamala Harris 2024 voters approved of the president’s immigration policy. That’s quite a number.”
Democrats have tried pulling cheap stunt after cheap stunt in response to the ICE immigration sweeps, from showing up at detention centers to obstruct federal law enforcement officials, aggressively interrupting DHS press conferences as if they didn’t know any better, to even going so far as to travel to El Salvador to plead for the release of a deported, suspected human smuggler and alleged MS-13 gang member.
More recently, we saw Reps. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and Dan Goldman (D-NY) try to intimidate their way into an ICE processing center in the Big Apple — the same one where one of their mayoral candidates, NYC Comptroller Brad Lander, was arrested the day prior, only to get shut down by ICE NY Deputy Field Office Director Bill Joyce:
ICE Deputy Field Office Director Bill Joyce, with reporters and others looking on, met with the representatives on the building’s ground level. He told the officials that some immigrants had slept overnight on the floor and benches on the 10th floor.
Joyce said the site was not a detention center, which members of Congress are legally allowed to inspect, but rather an off-limits “processing center” where migrants facing potential removal are temporarily held.
WATCH as @RepJerryNadler and @danielsgoldman argue with Bill Joyce, ICE deputy field office director, to inspect holding cells in Lower Manhattan.
“You have no right to say no to us. That’s a matter of law,” Nadler said. pic.twitter.com/qczpa7rN4N
— Arya Sundaram (@arya_sundaram) June 18, 2025
But despite their campaign to derail President Trump’s illegal immigration policies and to win back voters who drifted to Donald Trump in 2024 over big-ticket issues like this one, illegal immigration continues to be an issue where Trump’s message resonates with voters. As for Democrats, it remains a losing issue even among around 25% of their own party, according to a “megapoll” taken by Stack Data Strategy, the results of which were shared with Politico:
A new 8,000-person megapoll shared with Playbook offers important lessons for both parties ahead of next year’s midterms.
[…]
There was even greater Democratic (and independent) support for Trump’s approach to immigration, suggesting opposition attacks on his controversial deportations are not widely resonating. In total, 49 percent of voters approved of the administration’s handling of immigration, vs. 33 percent who disapproved. Strikingly, a quarter of all Kamala Harris 2024 voters approved of the president’s immigration policy. That’s quite a number.
👀 I have been very curious abt if — not if… more like WHEN — all these ICE riots & protests will blow back on Dems.
New polling in PB this AM suggests it likely will.
Why? Bc a not insignificant chunk of dem voters approve of Trumps immigration policies. Plain & simple pic.twitter.com/rztLGPGJja
— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) June 19, 2025
It was noted that the poll “ended just before the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles that provoked Trump to send in the National Guard. It’s untested how those events affected voters’ views.” But I suspect the Los Angeles riots would only strengthen existing viewpoints, considering how pretty much no one outside of delusional Democrat politicos, the activist left, and their mainstream media allies thinks rioting, looting, arson, and assaulting law enforcement officers are effective ways to win over hearts and minds (as we saw during the Antifa/BLM-led riots in the summer of 2020).
Turns out lighting cities on fire and attacking law enforcement over criminal illegal immigrants isn’t exactly a winning message when Americans are watching the chaos unfold in real time. https://t.co/Srd2YTpQi8
— Mike Marinella (@mike_marinella) June 19, 2025
Guys I’m beginning to think democrats aren’t really voicing the concerns of America https://t.co/WalBJzL4xG
— Ryan (@Shootingbogey) June 19, 2025
Gee, ya think?
-Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter/X.-
DONATE
Donations tax deductible
to the full extent allowed by law.
Comments
The left drones on about limited resources and how horrible it is to live here yet to they back themselves in a corner on this loser.
The law says Congressmen have an absolute right, at any time and without notice, to inspect “any facility operated by or for the Department of Homeland Security used to detain or otherwise house aliens”. Is Joyce claiming that the aliens who spent the night there were not being “detained or otherwise housed”?!
He’s saying that they have not yet been detained from a legal standpoint. Maybe they aren’t even kept there overnight. Regardless, Dems might have a right but their camera crews and media drama circuses do not.
If they’re not free to go then they’re being detained.
And we know people are being kept there overnight. He explicitly admitted that. How does that not fall into the category of “or otherwise housed”?
Sure. That doesn’t mean instantly. Doesn’t mean there aren’t operational issues to deconflict, Doesn’t mean security of the staff the detainees and the visitors won’t require a delay, perhaps a lengthy one depending on operational tempo, # of detainees, # of staff, type of facility. Doesn’t mean members of Congress show up, waive their Congressional lapel pins and everyone snaps to do their bidding to accommodate them or their preferred timeline.
The more notice and info provided, the better the coordination and the less potential for any issues to impede or delay a visit. Unless the members are totes OK with being strip searched and put into the middle of.these detainees (in an open holding cell or gen pop area) and staff going on about their day regardless of safety for visitors, they should probably make a good faith effort to coordinate in advance.
First of all, it says they may not be prevented from entering. It doesn’t say that a small delay is acceptable.
But even if you would argue that it’s implied, that’s not what happened here. He outright told them that they would not be admitted at all, claiming that the facility is not covered by the law. But the law specifies “any facility operated by or for the Department of Homeland Security used to detain or otherwise house aliens”. How does he claim this facility doesn’t fall under that definition? If someone is not free to go then by definition he is being detained. And if someone is kept overnight somewhere it’s hard to say he’s not being housed.
He’s playing by the Democrat’s playbook. Just say something is so, and make the other side fight about it, In this case, that fight will just draw attention to how far the Democrats are willing to fight for illegals.
The Democrats may think that fight is worth having but the Republicans are betting that the optics will work against the Democrats.
“Court forces Administration to allow Congressmen free access to illegals being detained for deportation.”
Just asking: has your Congressman ever showed up to support something for YOU, a registered voter?
In fact, I can think of an occasion when several of the politicos on “our side,” who were SCHEDULED to show support for a viewpoint of mine (by standing at a podium and speaking, the lowest and cheapest level of “support” imaginable), abruptly changed their minds and stood us up when they calculated that the optics would reflect badly on their job prospects.
“Texas Senator John Cornyn and Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw, both scheduled to speak, announced scheduling conflicts. Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, a vocal gun rights supporter, also backed out of an appearance.”
Sorry, looks like I left out the reference to the venue: the NRA Annual Meeting.
Similarly, AZ rep Matt Salmon, running for Governor against Janet Napolitano, squirmed out of his own Get Out The Vote rally arranged by his own staff in Tucson, sponsored by the NRA and featuring Charlton Heston, after a crazy student shot some faculty at UA. He lost his race, and this piece of cowardice was cited as a major factor.
I will accept on faith that there is a law that allows congress critters to inspect any detention facility at any time without notice. But I wonder if that law says that they cannot be strip searched for contraband such as weapons, drugs, and phones. Also, once they have entered such a facility, do they have to be allowed to leave whenever they want? Or is exit at the discression of the authority in charge of the facility? If they are truely interested in the full experience, they will need to stay for a few days, and live amongst the very fine people who are being confined.
Public Law 118-47, passed Mar-23-2024 (continued in effect by the Continuing Resolution of Mar-14-2025), § 527:
There doesn’t need to be a law that they can’t be strip-searched, or that they can’t be detained against their will. The government has no authority to do either of those things. The fourth amendment should be sufficient for that, but if it isn’t then the congressional immunity from arrest will do the rest. The exceptions to this immunity are “Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace”, none of which are involved here, so if the 4th isn’t enough this must be.
For people who have no inherent right to be admitted, DHS can say that as a condition of admission you must consent to these things; but Congressmen are entitled to admission by law, so no conditions can be imposed on them.
In short, I think this Joyce fellow screwed up, and if Nadler and Goldman choose to make things difficult for him they will succeed.
“Despite”
That’s a headline worthy of Fox Butterfield.
Meh, I’ll allow it. The point being that it was SUPPOSED to be attractive to their nutball constituents, but strangely enough, still wasn’t.
I’d give me first born mail child to anyone who tasers Goldman and Nadler when they pull a stunt like this. I’ll throw in my first born female child if they piss themselves in the process.
Two of the most despicable dramacrat aholes in congress and unfortunately they claim to be Jewish for which I profoundly apologize. We’re supposed to have higher average IQs but you wouldn’t know from these two knuckleheads and their equally stupid and unamerican supporters.
What is a “mail child”? Where would that fall on the gender spectrum? Would we need more pronouns?
Excellent question. I’ll male in my answer in a bit.
You’re taking poor odds on the female.
I personally saw a video where Nadler pooped himself on the Senate dais.
It’ll be interesting to see if crime statistics and various welfare costs go down in these states a year from now.
I don’t know why they can’t justt let them in. As someone pointed out the law applies to the Congressman, not the cameramen, newspeople, or their staff. So let the two of them in. They get more mileage out of being told no than whatever they would find inside.
Dan Goldman. Looks dumb, sounds dumb, is REALLY dumb.
Money doesn’t provide eloquence, wisdom or effective persuasion skills.
My Congressman. Imagine how proud I am. (Actually he’s an improvement over my previous representative, hard as that may be to imagine.)