Two deaths during federal raids have become a moral tipping point. Renee Good and ICU nurse Alex Pretti are no longer just names; they are catalysts. Their shootings, captured and replayed, pierced through years of abstract debate over “illegal aliens” and “border security,” forcing Americans to confront the human cost behind political slogans. When people saw the footage, support for ICE’s tactics collapsed even further.
The polling now shows a country recoiling from the violence being carried out in its name. Forty-six percent say ICE should be abolished; most Americans, across party lines, believe its methods are too extreme. The partisan divide is still sharp, but something deeper is shifting: fear is giving way to disgust, and law-and-order rhetoric is colliding with images of citizens dying in their own streets. Whatever happens next, the old consensus on immigration enforcement is gone.
