For almost two years Donald Trump has used Immigration and Customs Enforcement to wage a war on the United States, on the people who live in it and on the citizens who got in its way. On Tuesday voters answered. Six in ten disapproved of the way ICE is doing its job, half of them strongly, and 58% said the regime's immigration enforcement had gone too far. Only 20% said it had not gone far enough, and the voters who said it had gone too far backed Democrats by 90%.

Calling it a war is not a figure of speech. Trump has given ICE more money than most countries spend on their armed forces, sent soldiers and Marines into American cities alongside it, turned military bases into detention camps and let its agents use helicopters, tear gas and live rounds on the communities they were sent into. Our register counts 94 people who have died in immigration custody or during enforcement operations since he took office.

The candidates who ran hardest against ICE won. Peggy Flanagan beat Michele Tafoya for the Senate in Minnesota, where federal agents killed two US citizens in January, and told supporters that Democrats would "rip ICE apart." Gina Hinojosa beat Greg Abbott in Texas after promising to "never offer up Texas as a staging ground for operations that terrorize families and enrich his donors." Keisha Lance Bottoms, who ended Atlanta's jail contract with ICE as mayor, beat Rick Jackson in Georgia. Rebecca Bennett beat Tom Kean Jr. in New Jersey's 7th District after fighting an ICE detention site planned for Roxbury.