EXCLUSIVE: Most Hispanic Voters Back Trump Deportation Policy Amid Anti-ICE Riots, Poll Shows

A majority of Hispanic voters back core elements of the Trump administration’s deportation policy according to a poll released Monday that was conducted after the Los Angeles riots began.

Nearly six in 10 registered voters surveyed — including a majority of Hispanic voters and nearly half of voters under 25 —  support the administration’s policy increasing the “pace of deportations … prioritizing individuals with criminal records,” according to an online poll from League of American Workers (LAW) and TechnoMetrica Institute of Policy and Politics (TIPP) obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Notably, 53% of Hispanic voters as well as 49% of voters between the ages of 18-24 indicated they somewhat or strongly supported increasing the pace of deportations, the LAW/TIPP poll found. President Donald Trump made significant gains in the 2024 election among young and Hispanic voters — particularly among men of both demographics.

Just under half — 46% — of black voters polled said they supported the policy. Black Americans have long backed the Democratic Party but trended to the right in the 2024 election in which Trump won over 20% black male voters, according to a CNN exit poll.

In addition, 65% of the survey’s total respondents — including 61% of its Hispanic respondents — agreed strongly or somewhat that Trump deserves credit for the fact that the number of “gotaways” at the border has decreased by approximately 95% relative to former President Joe Biden’s sole term. The poll included this statistic and defined “gotaways” as “individuals who illegally cross the border and are observed but not apprehended” in the question to its respondents.

The online poll was conducted days after violent riots against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) broke out in Los Angeles.

Cortes is a former senior advisor to both Trump and Vice President JD Vance, and he currently serves as the senior political advisor to political advocacy nonprofit CatholicVote.

LAW’s commissioned survey follows several polls and analyses which have found broad support for Trump’s immigration policies, including among groups that previously largely rejected such initiatives.

A Pew Research Center report in March found that a combined 83% of American adults believe that either some or all illegal immigrants in the U.S. should be deported. Only 16% indicated that no illegal immigrants should be deported, according to the Pew report.

Of the majority of respondents who said that “some” illegal immigrants should be deported, 97% of them said that those who committed violent crimes should be, according to Pew’s poll. Trump’s border czar Tom Homan has said repeatedly that the administration prioritizes violent criminals in its ongoing deportation operations.

Immigrant voters favor the immigration policies of Trump’s Republican Party by 8 percentage points more than the Democrats’ policies on the issue, CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten’s recent analysis of the American National Election Studies (ANES) found. In 2020, immigrant voters favored the Democrats’ policies on the issue by 32 points, according to Enten’s analysis.

“Look at that shift! A 40-point shift toward the right among immigrant voters,” Enten said Wednesday on CNN. “Republicans now lead on this issue by eight points over Democrats, more so than any other group that I could 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.”

TIPP conducted its survey for LAW online throughout the U.S. from June 9-11, among 1,584 registered voters. The poll’s credibility interval is plus or minus 2.5 percentage points, and subgroups based on various demographic categories had higher credibility intervals due to smaller sample size.