How US views of immigration have changed since Trump took office, according to Gallup polling

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Just months after President Donald Trump returned to office amid a wave of anti-immigration sentiment, the share of U.S. adults saying immigration is a “good thing” for the country has jumped substantially — including among Republicans, according to new Gallup polling.

About 8 in 10 Americans, 79%, say immigration is “a good thing” for the country today, an increase from 64% a year ago and a high point in the nearly 25-year trend. Only about 2 in 10 U.S. adults say immigration is a bad thing right now, down from 32% last year.

During Democratic President Joe Biden’s term in office, negative views of immigration had increased markedly, reaching a high point in the months before Trump, a Republican, took office. The new Gallup data suggests U.S. adults are returning to more pro-immigrant views that could complicate Trump’s push for sweeping deportations and other anti-immigration policies. The poll shows decreasing support for the type of mass deportations Trump has championed since before he was elected.

Since taking office, Trump has called on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to do all in its power to deliver “the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History.” His administration has also pushed to limit access to federal benefits for immigrants who lack legal status, sought to revoke the citizenship of immigrants who commit crimes and is working to end birthright citizenship for children born to those without legal status or who are in the country temporarily.

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-polling-trump-deportation-d138992f803e2d0b5b399aa9eaa36581

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. Not surprising

When wall to wall anti-immigrant campaign ads are replaced by daily coverage of ICE terrorism, that’s bound to change some folks opinions.

[usonian]

2. Beat you to it

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220477373

But worth repeating, for whatever it's worth.

People being fickle? Or just following the media's outrage du jour?

I suspect the latter.

[Ocelot II]

3. When people see reports of the abuses of ICE, the deportations of people

who have lived here for decades with families and jobs, people with no criminal records sent to gulags with no due process, children with cancer deported to places where there is no treatment, American citizens caught in the dragnet with little recourse, even those who may have been hardliners on immigration could start changing their minds. Nobody is in favor of an open border - there has never been an open border - and nobody objects to the deporting of convicted criminals. But Stephen Miller's 3,000 deportations per day quota when there aren't enough actual criminals to satisfy the quota is resulting in outrageous, Gestapo-like behavior, which is bound to make people change their minds about what ICE should really be doing and how immigration policies should be changed.