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A majority of voters believe that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should be impeached, new polling finds as backlash to her unconstitutional raids of U.S. communities grows.

Data for Progress finds that 52 percent of likely voters say that Noem should be impeached for her handling of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) killing of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good. Only 36 percent said that they disagreed — a 16 point margin.

Eighty percent of Democrats agreed that Noem should be impeached, compared to only 8 percent who didn’t. Those in support also included 54 percent of independents and even 21 percent of Republicans.

The polling was conducted from January 30 to February 2, about a week after DHS agents shot and killed Pretti — a killing described as an........

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