Polls Show Strong Support for Trump Border, Deportation Policies
Nearly three-quarters of Democrats support criminal deportations, 60 percent favor border security
By Andrew R. Arthur on April 3, 2025
Two separate polls released in the past week show strong support for President Trump’s key immigration policies: closing the border and deporting aliens here illegally. In fact, those are the most popular among the new administration’s policies, underscoring lingering discontent over the prior administration’s much more permissive immigration stances.
The first poll was conducted for CBS News, sampling 2,609 U.S. adults, and was conducted between March 27 and 28. It has a margin of error of +/- 2.3 points. The second was conducted by The Harris Poll and Harris X for the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, and involved 2,746 registered voters surveyed between March 26 and 27. The margin of error is +/- 1.9 points.
CBS News Poll. Overall approval of the president’s performance was evenly split in the CBS News poll, with half (50 percent) of respondents approving of his handling of his new (old) job (31 percent “strongly” approving) and 50 percent disapproving (40 percent strongly disapproving).
In that poll, Trump received the strongest support for his immigration policies. According to YouGov, 53 percent approve of Trump’s handling of immigration, and 47 percent disapprove. For comparison, just 48 percent approve of the way the president is approaching the economy, and 44 percent of his attempts to tame inflation.
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