Washington, DC – Advocates have called on US lawmakers to seize on the tanking public approval of President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement drive as outrage continues to grow over the killing of a United States citizen by an immigration agent in Minnesota.During a news conference on Wednesday, several immigration experts said lawmakers have a unique opportunity to enact reforms as opinion has turned on Trump’s mass deportation pledges, an issue that helped carry the president to his second term during the 2024 election.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe events in Minnesota, they said, have underscored a grim future of unchecked US immigration enforcement, particularly in light of last year’s massive infusion of cash into the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.“I think we are really at an inflection point here,” said Kate Voigt, the senior policy counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).“We’ve seen a swell of grassroots actions over the past few weeks. More and more people are seeing that ICE is dangerous, violent, operating with impunity. More and more people are angry, scared, motivated, and more and more people are looking to their members of Congress for action.”To be sure, a change of direction remains an enormous undertaking, according to observers.Trump’s tax bill, passed last year by the Republican-controlled Congress, which the president dubbed his “Big Beautiful Bill”, included a gargantuan windfall of $170bn for the Department of Homeland Security (D …
