A new national survey reveals the widespread appeal of President Trump’s law-and-order approach to immigration enforcement.
Americans reject street violence and insist that only legal, vetted migration be permitted into our homeland.
Perhaps most tellingly, Americans overwhelmingly believe that those who use violence and interfere with law enforcement deportation operations must face criminal charges.
When asked specifically about this kind of violence in Los Angeles recently, 68% said the violators must be prosecuted. Only 21% deem such charges as “not important.” Among men, 74% believe in criminal consequences, and only 18% disagree. In addition, nearly two-thirds of Hispanics (64%) demand these prosecutions.
Importantly, this poll began last Monday, June 9, just after the weekend of violence and mayhem in Los Angeles. The public feud between President Trump and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California was ongoing during the polling period of June 9-11, making this survey an especially useful barometer of public sentiment during this tension.
The American people believe in law-and-order, even when they are not necessarily supporters of President Trump overall. To prove this point, this survey found a Trump overall job approval rating of -7% with a 43/50% approve/disapprove. So, we did not sample some misleading pro-MAGA population.
That job approval is exactly in line with our national survey from April, which was also conducted by respected pollster TIPP Insights for my pro-laborer advocacy group, the League of American Workers.
But this poll proves that a large number of Trump-skeptical Americans still strongly approve of the president’s tough approach to stamping out illegal immigration, which ran amok during the Biden tenure of open borders. For example, the pace of “gotaways” has plunged by a stunning 95% under Trump, relative to Biden. Customs and Border Protection counts gotaways as sightings of migrants, by electronics or human agents, who were not apprehended but crossed our border illegally.
Now, a stunning 65% of Americans give Trump the credit for that new operational control over our border. Among independent voters, 63% give Trump the credit, and only 22% disagree.
In a country that is deeply politically divided, such supermajority numbers stand out. On this foundational issue of the America First agenda, we on the populist Right occupy the political, ethical, and legal high ground. Even Americans who hold ardently pro-immigrant views want the process to work in a measured, lawful, and clear manner.
We also know that legal immigrants themselves have moved massively to the political right. As Harry Enten of CNN pointed out “ no group of voters moved more to the right, from 2020 to 2024, than immigrant voters.” By most valid post-2024 election measures, Trump at least tied Biden among immigrant voters, after losing that voting bloc by -22% in 2020, a truly astounding shift among the millions of legal new Americans who came here the correct way.
New Americans believe in America First. So, it is not surprising, then, that Trump’s mass deportations earn overwhelming approval from the people. On this broad question, Trump prevails by a +28% margin, with 60% overall in favor and only 32% opposed. Among seniors, approval is even more pronounced, with a huge 41% “strongly” supporting mass deportations, and 65% of older Americans overall favorable.
Among Catholics, a pivotal voting bloc who swung the national popular vote to Trump, the faithful support Trump’s mass deportations by a wide +35% margin, 64-29%. That supermajority is notable because the pro-chaos corporate media loves to elevate a small group of Catholic leaders who regularly parrot the Biden-Harris-Mayorkas themes, favoring porous borders.
So, across lines of race, ethnicity, age, geography, and religion, Americans massively rally to the America First vision of a country of rules and safety, a land that only welcomes new Americans through a rigorous, lawful process. Moreover, Americans reject lawlessness generally and clearly have the backs of police and Trump when they stand in the breach and demand public order.
For the president and his team, these numbers should steel their resolve. Doing the right thing, exerting strong leadership in this agenda – these actions represent both good policy and winning politics.
It’s our country, and we reclaim our sovereignty and reclaim our streets, at long last.
Steve Cortes is president of the League of American Workers, a populist right pro-laborer advocacy group, and senior political advisor to Catholic Vote. He is a former senior advisor to President Trump and JD Vance, plus a former commentator for Fox News and CNN.
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