Poll — Democrat Disaster: Legal Migrants Side with Trump and GOP, Says CNNNeil Munro 11 Jun 2025
Naturalized immigrant voters are now siding strongly with President Donald Trump on immigration policy amid the economic chaos inflicted by President Joe Biden’s administration.
The polling shift is a body blow for the Democrats’ openly stated plan to win political power by importing foreign voters.
The plan was based on the liberals’ condescending view that last year’s legal migrants would always identify themselves as allies of next year’s immigrants. But this identity politics perspective ignores the reality that recent legal migrants suffer the greatest economic and civic pressure from the next wave of migrants.
The new polling numbers leave the Democrats in a strategic bind. Cutbacks to legal and illegal migration would encourage more of the existing legal migrants to side with the Democrats’ big-spending policies. But those migration cutbacks would also raise wages and prosperity for all voters, so reducing many other Americans’ willingness to vote for the Democrats’ big-spending government.
The polling shift was described by CNN’s polling expert, Harry Enten:
You go back to where Democrats were in 2020: Democrats held a 32-point lead [among legal-immigrant voters]. Immigrant voters were in the Democratic camp. Jump forward to 2024/2o25 — look at that shift! — a 40-point shift to the right among immigrant voters. Republicans now lead on this issue [among immigrant voters] by 8 points over Democrats. More so than any group that I can find, the group of voters who became more hawkish on immigration were, in fact, immigrants themselves — Immigrants who are registered to vote in this country.
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