The Daily Signal 7/15/2025 12:37:22 PM
 

President Donald Trump is enjoying strong support for his border and immigration policies among U.S. voters, according to a new Harvard-Harris Poll.  

The poll, conducted July 6-8, found that 60% of voters support Trump’s actions to close the southern border, with 34% of Democrats and 89% of Republicans saying they back the president’s measures at the border.

Furthermore, 75% of U.S. voters support efforts to remove criminals from the U.S. who are in the country illegally.  

When asked whether they “support or oppose the administration’s efforts to deport criminals who are here illegally,” 59% of Democrats and 93% of Republicans said they support the effort.  

“President Trump is keeping his promises to secure the border and deport criminal illegal aliens—and the American people are loving it,” Abigail Jackson, a White House spokeswoman, told The Daily Signal. 

Voters are nearly split, however, when it comes to approval of the Trump administration’s enforcement of immigration policy.  

Fifty-two in every 100 voters think â€œthe administration is doing the right thing in its enforcement of immigration policy,” but 48 in every 100 voters disagree, saying the enforcement has gone too far.  

Three out of every five voters would like there to be more due process for migrants in order to prevent unfair deportations.  

Trump made the promise of mass deportations a pillar of his 2024 campaign, and has made good on his pledge, setting a record for the most deportations on a monthly average of any president.  

Between being sworn in on Jan. 20 and June 30, more than 239,000 illegal aliens have been deported under Trump, Tricia McLaughlin, Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary, told The Daily Signal in an email Monday. On average, about 47,000 illegal aliens have been deported each month since Trump took office.  

While the majority of voters, 79%, say criminal illegal aliens should be deported after they serve their sentence, voters are more split on concerns over human rights abuses regarding deportation.  

“In defending deportations, Democrats are saying there are human rights abuses. Do you think that they are fighting for human rights or just trying to defeat the Trump administration?”  

Of those polled, 52% said “fighting for human rights,” and 48% said “just trying to defeat the Trump administration.” 

While some Democrat lawmakers, such as Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, have gone so far as to aim to interrupt Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, the majority of voters think local leaders should not block deportations efforts and think local authorities should cooperate with ICE.  

Asked about the Biden administration’s border policies, 67% of voters, including 49% of Democrats, agreed that the border was “open” during Trump’s predecessor’s administration.  

“This latest polling just proves what we already knew: Democrat politicians who are doubling down on their open-borders agenda are wildly out of touch with the vast majority of Americans—including many Democrat voters,” Jackson said. “President Trump will never stop fighting to make America safe again and remove dangerous criminal illegal aliens from our communities.” 

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