Kamlager-Dove was asked on CNN's “The Arena” about the Trump administration's policy, where she said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was engaging in "domestic terrorism" by detaining illegal immigrants for deportation.
“I would argue that this is not immigration policy that we’re seeing unfold. This is domestic terrorism,” Kamlager-Dove told CNN's Kasie Hunt and claimed that Americans are not in favor of raids by ICE. When asked to clarify by Hunt, the lawmaker said and gave the example of "grandmothers taking young children to church or to the grocery store or to a little Korean market" being detained and arrested by ICE, who are "snatching people, putting them in a van, carting them off, detaining them, not informing their parents or family members."
"Yes, I would argue that you are terrorizing communities,” she added.
According to a recent CBS poll, however, a majority of Americans, 54 percent, approve of Trump's policies and efforts to deport illegal immigrants from the US. Additionally, 42 percent of Americans feel that the policies have made America safer while only 30 percent say that his deportation program has made the country less safe. 27 percent have said there has been no change to the level of safety.
The CBS poll of 2,428 US adults was taken prior to the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles that took place over the weekend. Another RGM Research poll of 1,000 registered voters taken after the president called in the National Guard to the riots happening in California found that 58 percent of American voters said that they approved of the president's efforts to deport illegal immigrants while only 34 percent said they did not approve.
On the decision to send in the National Guard to LA, 52 percent of Americans approved the move with 30 percent saying they "strongly" approved of the action.
