STEVE CORTES: Americans Overwhelmingly Back Trump’s Deportation Agenda

Americans overwhelmingly support the Trump-Vance administration’s moves on border and immigration issues and demand a return to law-and-order over migration issues. These beliefs cut across ideological and demographic lines, consistent with the mandate victory earned by President Donald Trump last November.

Specifically, by a +19% margin, Americans back broad, mass deportations of all illegal aliens by a 56%-37% spread. In a country that is politically polarized, where most issues breakdown roughly 47%-47% along party lines, that kind of margin on a controversial topic like immigration, it points to an emerging consensus in the country. 

Despite years of legacy media promoting open borders, and in the face of former President Joe Biden’s constant lies about his supposed helplessness to control the border, the American people clearly move decidedly to the political right on this macro issue. This polling data comes from TIPP Insight, a highly respected polling firm commissioned by my populist pro-laborer advocacy organization, the League of American Workers. The national survey questioned 1,720 registered voters, who split by +1% for Trump over Harris, exactly in line with the actual 2024 election returns.

The poll also asked specifically about migrants in America with criminal records, either in their own country, or here in America (in addition to the crime of trespassing into our country). Approval for deporting those aliens rises to a whopping +65%, with a 79%-14% margin. Among senior citizens, the public verdict is damn near unanimous, with a 93%-4% approval for deporting criminals immediately. Hispanics show 69% support for these deportations, political independents at 80% and even Kamala Harris Voters at 71% approval. 

So, Trump’s election victory was a mandate, winning every swing state and the national popular vote, the