In letting Immigration and Customs Enforcement loose on cities such as Minneapolis, the Trump administration appeared to be seeking many things, including strong reactions.

Judging by the opinions that USA TODAY readers submitted to us, it worked.

The surge of federal immigration agents in various cities since President Donald Trump took office again in 2025 has been controversial and violent, leading to the killings of two protesters and calls for ICE to be abolished. It has also accompanied a 50-year low in illegal border crossings and a slowing of immigration growth, which increased by 2.8 million in 2024 but only by 1.3 million in 2025, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

To find out what you, our readers, thought about immigration enforcement, we asked you to answer some timely questions: Should ICE be reformed? Or even abolished? What do you think of federal........

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