Topline
President Donald Trump demanded Tuesday the Department of Homeland Security should “start talking about the murderers and other criminals” it deports, insisting that would change public opinion of ICE operations—as polls consistently show Americans widely disapprove of Trump’s anti-immigration crackdown.
Anti-ICE protesters march across the Brooklyn Bridge on Martin Luther King Jr. Day on January 19, 2026, in New York City. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Key Facts
Trump urged DHS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement to “show the Numbers, Names, and Faces of the violent criminals” he said they deport, predicting on Truth Social it would lead Americans to “start supporting the Patriots of ICE, instead of the highly paid troublemakers, anarchists, and agitators!”
Trump made the comments as a string of recent polls found support for his anti-immigration push has declined in the wake of the shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis by an ICE officer, with surveys also showing most Americans believe the shooting was unjustified.
An Associated Press/NORC Center for Public Affairs Research January survey found Americans’ views of Trump’s handling of immigration have declined sharply throughout his first year in office, reaching 38% in January, down from 49% in March last year.
Recent polls by CNN, Quinnipiac and Economist/YouGov also found pluralities of respondents said Good’s shooting was unjustified and also expressed disapproval of ICE operations generally—with the Economist/YouGov survey showing 47% said ICE made America less safe.
Meanwhile, a CBS poll found 56% of Americans said they believe the Trump administration prioritizes deporting as many people as possible, regardless of their criminal backgrounds.
Tangent
Video footage of Good’s shooting contradicts claims from Trump and officials in his administration that Good hit the ICE officer who killed her, Jonathan Ross, with her vehicle before he shot her. A New York Times review of several videos from the Jan. 7 incident showed “no indication” Ross had been run over and instead found Ross “put himself in a dangerous position near her vehicle in the first place,” the paper wrote last week.
Key Background
Trump has doubled down on his anti-immigration crackdown in the wake of Good’s death, raging at protesters and lawmakers who have denounced the shooting. He threatened last week to invoke the Insurrection Act “if the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E.” The Insurrection Act generally allows the president to override federal law restricting the use of military for domestic law enforcement purposes. In the wake of Trump’s threat, the Pentagon also notified 1,500 active-duty soldiers they could be deployed to Minnesota, the Washington Post reported, citing unnamed defense officials. Trump on Friday seemed to back off the threat, telling reporters, “I don’t think there’s any reason right now to use it, but if needed, I’d use it.”
Further Reading
Was Minneapolis ICE Agent Hit By Renee Good’s Car Or Not? Videos Raise Fresh Doubts (Forbes)
Renee Good Was Shot As Many As 4 Times, Report Reveals—As Minneapolis Unrest Continues (Forbes)
Joe Rogan Calls ICE Shooting Of Renee Good ‘Horrible’ In Latest Break With Trump (Forbes)
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2026/01/20/trump-demands-deportees-be-publicly-identified-to-reverse-negative-ice-views/
