Voters continue to approve President Donald Trump's immigration policies, as deportations ramp up and the case of a Maryland father accidentally sent to an El Salvador prison continues getting media attention. However, they seem to be souring on one policy the administration continues to defend— tariffs.
President Trump heavily campaigned on immigration enforcement and improving the economy, two fronts he has brought sweeping changes to during the first months of his presidency. Yet early polls show voters have vastly different views on the two, Axios details.
A recent Quinnipiac University national poll of registered voters last week showed that Trump's tariffs have become a liability for him. A vast majority of them (72%) said they think Trump's tariffs will hurt the U.S. economy in the short term.
Almost every Democrat surveyed (97%), 77% of independents and 44% of Republicans agreed with the premise. A smaller majority (53%) said that they think the tariffs will hurt the U.S. economy in the long-term too.
Tariffs aren't the only policy that's making voters raise their eyebrows. In fact, another poll released earlier this week by Morning Consult showed that, for the first time since April 2021, voters trust Democrats in Congress more than their Republican counterparts to handle the economy (46% to 43%). That survey was conducted among 2,203 registered U.S. voters across the country between April 11-13.
However, when it comes to immigration, the president is seemingly performing better.
In a recent AP-NORC survey, about half of U.S. adults approved of his approach to immigration. That's higher than his approval rating for his approach to the presidency as a whole, and indicates approval for the administration's immigration crackdown and deportation drives. The same poll found that only about 4 in 10 voters have a positive view of the way Trump is handling the economy and trade negotiations.
That poll surveyed 1,229 adults between March 20-24, using a sample drawn from NORC's probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for adults overall is plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
During the first months of his time in office, Trump has made immigration a cornerstone for his administration. Since returning to the White House, the president has ramped up deportation, in hopes of carrying out what he had previously described the "largest deportation operation" in American history.
Most notably, the president invoked the Alien Enemies Act last month, allowing for the swift deportation of migrants to an El Salvadoran prison accused of human rights violations. Among those men was Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland father who was accidentally deported despite having legal status. Since his deportation, the Supreme Court ordered for the administration to facilitate his return, yet the Salvadoran government, led by Nayib Bukele, and with the approval of Trump, have declined to bring him back to the U.S.
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