[JumpCrisscross]

If there is anything Trump is doing popularly, it’s aggressively removing illegal immigrants from our streets. To the extent there is tolerance for Fourth Amendment violations, it may be from historic indifference to enforcing our immigration laws.

[matwood]

https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker

The aggressiveness is losing people who may have supported his immigration policies initially.

[krapp]

They gave him his second term, he doesn't need them anymore.

[JumpCrisscross]

> aggressiveness is losing people

Losing, but hasn’t lost. Point is if someone is proudly pro-Trump right now, immigration probably isn’t going to prompt introspection.

[ap99]

This is it, exactly.

I used to be a very "live and let live" type of person.

Then the relaxed "let live" part got abused. I've seen what happens first hand having lived in NYC for 6 years, and now living in London.

[mlrtime]

100% And most don't realize that many EU nations have tighter restrictions on immigration now than the US after seeing what effect lax policies have on their nation.

[pjc50]

.. and people who are legal immigrants, and people who've just left immigration court, and of course some actual US nationals.

It's amazing the power of fear of crime to get people to demand the Federal government jackboot.