The Trump administration is almost inviting Republicans to turn on them

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Operation Metro Surge, U.S. President Donald Trump’s urban immigration crackdown, is floundering. Gregory Bovino, the almost cartoonishly villainous head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been put out to pasture and will reportedly soon retire. Two American citizens are dead in Minnesota at the hands of ICE, and even many staunch Republicans are struggling to square ICE’s versions of events with the significant video evidence.

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A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted Jan. 25 found Trump’s net approval rating on immigration had fallen from a positive seven per cent upon his inauguration to minus 14 per cent today — though that’s better than the president’s overall minus 21 per cent approval rating.

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It certainly isn’t helping the Republican cause that Trump, and many of his winged monkeys, have said in so many words that Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis nurse shot dead by........

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