Only China, Russia and Hamas get lower favorability ratings than the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, a new Harvard/Harris poll reveals.
ICE has just 34% favorability, and an unfavorable rating of 50%, according to the poll, which was released last week in the aftermath of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis.
Since then, the Trump administration yanked 700 federal agents out of Minneapolis in a possible strategy shift.
ICE is polling well beneath other federal agencies in favorability, including the Department of Homeland Security at 43%; the Department of Justice at 45%; the FBI at 50%; police generally at 60% and the US Military, which came in highest at 72%.
The poll tested favorability of a variety of other institutions, almost all of which also outpolled ICE.
That includes Elon Musk-owned Tesla, at 38%, and X, at 35%; Israel at 39%; the Supreme Court at 45% and NATO at 49%.
Facebook polled at a surprising 57%.
Coming in below ICE in the survey is China and the Palestinian Authority, both of which logged just 18% favorability. Russia, which is waging a brutal war on Ukraine, had 13% favorability in the poll, while terror group Hamas came in as least favorite at 10%.
The poll of 2,000 registered voters was conducted Jan. 28-29, four days after the Pretti shooting.
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