Marco Rubio and Nayib Bukele, Lake Coatepeque, El Salvador, Feb. 3, 2025. Image via office of El Salvador presidency
Q1. Last week, the Washington Post reported that Secretary of State Marco Rubio agreed to repatriate Salvadoran MS-13 gang leaders in US prisons as a condition for El Salvador to detain undocumented migrants deported from the US.
Some of the gang leaders to be repatriated are informants that the Justice Department recruited to help ferret out gang leaders still in El Salvador who are directing the actions of members in the US.
It was reported the Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele wants the gang leaders back because he is fearful what they may disclose to US authorities. Several outlets have written that Bukele's government gave gang leaders financial and other benefits in exchange for their promise to reduce the number of MS-13’s "public murders" so it would appear El Salvador’s homicide rate was decreasing.
Thus far, the US has sent back at least one, and possibly two of the nine prisoners Bukele requested.
Would you like to see the US keep or return the informants?
Some of the gang leaders to be repatriated are informants that the Justice Department recruited to help ferret out gang leaders still in El Salvador who are directing the actions of members in the US.
It was reported the Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele wants the gang leaders back because he is fearful what they may disclose to US authorities. Several outlets have written that Bukele's government gave gang leaders financial and other benefits in exchange for their promise to reduce the number of MS-13’s "public murders" so it would appear El Salvador’s homicide rate was decreasing.
Thus far, the US has sent back at least one, and possibly two of the nine prisoners Bukele requested.
Would you like to see the US keep or return the informants?
(Image: El Salvador's 40,000 capacity CECOT prison. Getty // AFP )
overall
custom
male
female
rep
ind
dem
18-29
30-44
45-64
65+
Keep
46%
45%
47%
26%
48%
63%
45%
49%
44%
45%
46%
Return
28%
25%
34%
46%
23%
16%
22%
23%
35%
31%
28%
Not sure
16%
16%
16%
17%
21%
14%
12%
16%
15%
18%
16%
Don't care
9%
14%
3%
11%
9%
7%
21%
11%
6%
5%
9%
Q2. Last week, a federal judge said she planned to order Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in the Department of Homeland Security’s “Operation Midway Blitz” immigration enforcement push in the Chicago area to wear and use body cameras while conducting activities or interacting with protesters.
She had earlier limited their ability to use tear gas and pepper balls without first warning journalists and peaceful protestors.
Which do you support when it comes to ICE operations? (check all that apply)
She had earlier limited their ability to use tear gas and pepper balls without first warning journalists and peaceful protestors.
Which do you support when it comes to ICE operations? (check all that apply)
(Image: Federal agents next to wrecked vehicle used in chase to detain man on Chicago's South Side, Oct 2025. Getty)
overall
custom
male
female
rep
ind
dem
18-29
30-44
45-64
65+
Support mandatory use of body cams
82%
80%
83%
64%
88%
95%
88%
83%
79%
82%
82%
Oppose
15%
18%
11%
28%
11%
3%
12%
11%
18%
15%
15%
Support mandatory warning before tear gas use
67%
60%
73%
37%
72%
92%
74%
67%
62%
70%
67%
Oppose
28%
35%
21%
56%
23%
4%
24%
26%
33%
23%
28%
Not sure
3%
1%
5%
5%
1%
2%
0%
7%
1%
3%
3%
Don't care
1%
1%
1%
2%
0%
0%
0%
0%
1%
2%
1%
Q3. Last week, President Trump said that the two survivors of a US strike on a vessel in the Caribbean will be returned to their countries of origin. "There were four known narcoterrorists on board the vessel. Two of the terrorists were killed," Trump posted, adding the survivors would be repatriated for "detention and prosecution."
On Tuesday, Ecuador released one of the men, saying he was a fisherman, not connected to drug trafficking. On Wednesday, CNN reported he was a fisherman, but that he had also been convicted by the US of drug smuggling off the coast of Mexico in 2020. The other person repatriated was Colombian, and that government said he would face prosecution.
Asked why the two survivors were not taken to the US to be prosecuted, Vice President JD Vance told reporters that "so long as they're not bringing poison into our country, I don't really care" what happens to them.
Should the US have brought the two alleged narcoterrorists to the US for detention and trial?
On Tuesday, Ecuador released one of the men, saying he was a fisherman, not connected to drug trafficking. On Wednesday, CNN reported he was a fisherman, but that he had also been convicted by the US of drug smuggling off the coast of Mexico in 2020. The other person repatriated was Colombian, and that government said he would face prosecution.
Asked why the two survivors were not taken to the US to be prosecuted, Vice President JD Vance told reporters that "so long as they're not bringing poison into our country, I don't really care" what happens to them.
Should the US have brought the two alleged narcoterrorists to the US for detention and trial?
(Image: Colombia's President Gustavo Petro, who accused the US of the murder of an innocent fisherman in a different US boat strike. Getty )
overall
custom
male
female
rep
ind
dem
18-29
30-44
45-64
65+
Yes
34%
33%
36%
18%
37%
48%
42%
31%
31%
41%
34%
No
50%
54%
47%
68%
46%
36%
44%
53%
54%
45%
50%
Not sure
11%
9%
14%
9%
11%
13%
12%
9%
13%
11%
11%
Don't care
4%
4%
4%
4%
5%
3%
2%
8%
2%
3%
4%
March 2019
86% support body cameras for all police officers
April 2015
Which of these people would you very much like to see wear a body camera to work?
35% Congressmen
21% Stockbroker
20% Mechanic
20% Journalist
18% President
17% Chef
13% Lawyer
11% Plumber
10% Accountant
86% support body cameras for all police officers
April 2015
Which of these people would you very much like to see wear a body camera to work?
35% Congressmen
21% Stockbroker
20% Mechanic
20% Journalist
18% President
17% Chef
13% Lawyer
11% Plumber
10% Accountant
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