62% Of Americans Disapprove Of Trump’s Immigration Policies, New Survey Shows
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Americans are expressing a more positive view of immigration that they have in the last four years, according to a Gallup poll.
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62% Of Americans Disapve Of Trump’s Immigration Policies, New Survey ShowsByMary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes Staff
Mary Roeloffs is a Forbes news reporter covering pop culture
AuthorJul 11, 2025, 10:32am EDTToplineA four-year trend that saw Americans expressing increasingly negative views immigration seems to be reversing, a new Gallup poll shows, as a record-high percentage of people see immigration as a positive—and disapve of President Donald Trump's handling of the issue
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Getty ImagesKey FactsResults of a June Gallup poll released Friday show that 79% of surveyed adults see immigration as a good thing for the country and a record-low 17% see it as a bad thing, a seeming reversal of a 2021-2024 trend that saw an increasing number of Americans viewing immigration as harmful
The jump in positive perception of immigration mostly comes from Republicans and, to a lesser extent, independents, Gallup reports, and Democrats’ belief that immigration is beneficial to the country has reached a record-high 91%
More Americans are now in favor of offering undocumented immigrants pathways to citizenship (support is up to 78% from 70% last year) while fewer support stringent measures to deter or reverse illegal immigration increasing the number of border patrol agents (support declined 17 points in the last year) and expanding the border wall (support dropped eight points to 45%)
While Gallup’s analysis says the reversal in negative perception seems to be the result of “the Trump administration’s swift and visible response” to a surge in illegal border crossings during the Biden administration
But the poll also shows that a majority of Americans do not apve of how Trump is handling the issue, with 35% of Americans saying they apve and 62% saying they disapve, with 45% of those respondents saying they "strongly disapve. " The survey found views on Trump’s immigration policies are steeply partisan, with an 85% apval rating from Republicans, compared with 28% of independents and just 2% of Democrats
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Key BackgroundTrump campaigned on a platform that mised tighter immigration policies and the largest mass deportation operation in American history to kick millions of undocumented immigrants out of the country
He suggested new policies would target people with criminal reports and who've been given final deportation orders
But Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has increasingly arrested and detained immigrants with no criminal history since he took office
Trump mised during his campaign he would restrict asylum eligibility, revoke Temporary tected designations from some immigrants and amp up security and enforcement at the southern border
So far, his administration has terminated the legal tections for roughly 60,000 people from Nicaragua, Honduras and Nepal, deployed thousands of service members to apprehend people illegally crossing the border and implemented new restrictions on asylum seekers based on several factors, including criminal history and travel through other countries, among other policy changes
He has also reinstated the "Remain in Mexico" migrant tection tocols, which force asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases are cessed in the U. , and moved to end birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants, a plan blocked by a federal judge on Thursday
That's how many immigrants Trump has said he wants to report each year
Surprising FactThe national daily arrest rate of immigrants has doubled in 38 states in 2025 compared to 2024, according to the New York Times
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