Updated 7:53 AM EST, Feb. 1, 2026
GREELEY, Colo (AP) — Like many Donald Trump voters, Miranda Niedermeier is not opposed to immigration enforcement. She was heartened by initial moves from the Republican president in his second term that she saw as targeting immigrants who were in the United States illegally and had committed crimes.
But Niedermeier, 35, has steadily become disillusioned with Trump. Never more so than in recent weeks, when federal immigration officers killed two U.S. citizens during Trump’scrackdownin Minneapolis.
“In the beginning, they were getting criminals, but now they’re tearing people out of immigration proceedings, looking for the tiniest traffic infraction” to deport someone, said Niedermeier. She said she is horrified because the administration’s approach is not Christian.
“She was heartened by initial moves from the Republican president in his second term that she saw as targeting immigrants who were in the United States illegally and had committed crimes.”
What the fuck initial moves are they talking about. They were ignoring due process from the get go and lying prfusely about people being criminals even before this is in a very verifiable way.
They can be “rattled”, but if this cross-pressure isn’t enough for them to reject the entire Republican Party and any Democrat that still wants ICE around, it doesn’t matter. It’s far enough from November that the effects of this will have evaporated by the time they cast their votes, so I don’t have any confidence that electoral politics will fix this. I’m happy to be proven wrong.
My first thoughts when I read that was the guy is a little slow on the uptake.
