{"id":177660,"date":"2026-03-04T11:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/177660\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T11:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:50:12","slug":"donald-trumps-immigration-policies-underwater-in-florida-with-ice-rated-far-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/177660\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump’s immigration policies underwater in Florida, with ICE rated far worse"},"content":{"rendered":"

More Florida voters disapprove of President Donald Trump\u2019s handling of immigration than support it.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s according to a poll from the University of North Florida\u2019s Public Opinion Research Lab<\/a>. That showed 49% of likely Midterm voters disapprove of the administration\u2019s immigration policies, while 48% approve. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) received the worst marks, with 55% offering a poor assessment of the federal agency, including 48% who strongly disapprove. Only 42% approve of ICE\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

Dr. Sean Freeder, PORL director and professor of political science, noted ICE found itself in worse shape in the public policy arena than Trump, who is also underwater with 48% disapproval ratings and 45% approval in the same poll.<\/p>\n

\u201cFloridians seem more willing to direct their dissatisfaction with immigration policy to ICE than Trump,\u201d Freeder said.<\/p>\n

Among independents, about 60% disapprove of the Trump administration\u2019s immigration policy, while 69% give ICE a bad review when asked specifically about ICE\u2019s performance. Meanwhile, 84% of Republicans give the administration a favorable rating on immigration, compared to 78% who give ICE a favorable rating.<\/p>\n

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Even among Democrats, marks are worse when asked about ICE than about Trump. About 92% disapprove of ICE, compared to 89% who blame the administration for the issue.<\/p>\n

But the poll found voters taking specific issue with the opening of detention facilities like Alligator Alcatraz<\/a> in the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cBuilding detention facilities in Florida is particularly unpopular, which may give pause to state officials who wish to partner with the federal government in their efforts,\u201d Freeder said.<\/p>\n

About 57% of poll respondents oppose the opening of any more detention facilities in Florida, compared to 39% who want more opened. Notably, 71% of Republican voters in the state said they want to see an expansion in detention centers, as do 66% of voters who supported Trump in the 2024 presidential election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More Florida voters disapprove of President Donald Trump\u2019s handling of immigration than support it. That\u2019s according to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[409,28,30,29,1877,84047,18252,5908],"class_list":["post-177660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-donald-trump","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-ice","tag-immigration-and-cusoms-enforcement","tag-unf-porl","tag-university-of-north-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}