{"id":6437,"date":"2026-03-05T13:43:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/?p=6437"},"modified":"2026-03-05T13:44:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:44:02","slug":"survey-americans-closely-following-news-of-ice-operations-and-many-moved-to-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/2026\/03\/05\/survey-americans-closely-following-news-of-ice-operations-and-many-moved-to-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Americans closely following news of ICE operations \u2013 and many moved to act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are closely following news of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in Minnesota and other cities across the country \u2013 and many want to take action against companies supporting it, according to a new opinion survey out today.<\/p>\n<p>Two out of three respondents to the latest Media &#038; Technology Survey from the Communication Research Center at Boston University\u2019s College of Communication agreed or strongly agreed that they pay close attention to news and social media about ICE operations.<\/p>\n<p>Of those paying close attention, just more than half (51%) say they would support calls to boycott companies that support ICE operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that people are paying close attention to news about ICE operations indicates an underlying interest and curiosity about these operations,\u201d said Arunima Krishna, co-author of the survey and associate professor of public relations at Boston University College of Communication.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/americans-closely-following-news-of-ice-operations-and-many-moved-to-act-says-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are closely following news of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in Minnesota and other cities across the country \u2013 and many want to take action against companies supporting it, according to a new opinion survey out today. Two out of three respondents to the latest Media &#038; Technology Survey from the Communication [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6438,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6437\/revisions\/6438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}