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When he began his second term, Americans responded positively to President Donald Trump’s handling of immigration. As of April, however, polls are now presenting a picture where voters are starting to sour on Trump and his administration’s handling of immigration. A poll from The Economist/YouGov conducted between April 19 and April 22 found that 50% of respondents disapproved of Trump’s handling of immigration versus 45% who approved.
The poll had a sample size of 1,625 adult U.S. citizens and a margin of error of plus or minus 3.
3%. The last Economist/YouGov poll that tracked the president’s handling of immigration found that 50% of voters approved Trump’s management of the issue, compared to 44% who did not. The poll was conducted between April 5 and April 8 with a sample size of 1,741 U.
S. adult citizens and a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1% In total, Trump saw an 11% drop in approval on the issue he has heavily prioritized in his three campaigns for president and his first and second terms.
Other polls found more Americans disapproving than approving of Trump’s handling of immigration. A Reuters/Ipsos pol l, which was conducted between April 16 and April 21, found that 46% of respondents disapproved of Trump’s handling of immigration compared to 47% who approved. The poll’s sample size was 4,306 U.
S. adults and had a margin of error of 2%. The previous Reuters/Ipsos poll , conducted between March 31 and April 2, found that 48% of respondents approved of Trump’s actions on immigration versus 44% who did not.
The poll had a sample size of 1,486 U.S. adults and a margin of error of plus or minus 2.
7%. A Quinnipiac University poll conducted between April 3 and April 7 found that 50% of respondents disapproved of Trump’s handling of immigration, compared to 45% who approved. The poll had a sample size of 1,407 registered voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.
6%. Trump’s immigration approval numbers from the recent Quinnipiac University poll are worse than the previous one the university conducted between March 6 and March 10. In that poll , 49% of respondents expressed disapproval of the 47th president’s handling of the issue compared to 46% who said they approved.
The poll’s sample size featured 1,198 self-identified registered voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8%. For Trump, the topic of immigration — more specifically, restricting immigration from certain countries — has been a major priority during his campaigns and his terms as president.
In 2016, Trump famously said that he would build a massive border wall to keep out illegal immigrants from Mexico, falsely claiming that the southern neighbor of the United States would pay for its construction. He also expressed support for banning people from certain countries from coming into the United States. During his first term, Trump signed an executive order that banned travel to the United States for 90 days from seven countries–Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen.
These countries are predominantly Muslim, which led to the executive order being called “The Muslim Ban.” During his second term, Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act, which he accused of being a member of the Venezuelan street gang Tren de Aragua. Before Trump invoked the 1798 law, the act had been used only three times in U.
S. history. It has also been used during periods of declared war.
The U.S. Supreme Court, however, ruled that those who are subject to the law must be allowed to challenge their removal.
Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court also ordered the administration to facilitate the return of a Salvadoran man living in Maryland who was deported because of an “administrative error.” The court ordered the White House to facilitate the return of the man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, so that he could go through the United States legal system. Recently, Trump has butted heads with the judicial branch, posting on Truth Social that he hopes the courts will cooperate with his administration in conducting massive deportations.
He also said that undocumented immigrants should not have the right to a trial before they are deported—a belief that goes against the Constitution’s guarantee for due process. The president has also infused the issue of immigration into other topics, such as housing. At a September talk to the Economic Club of New York , Trump claimed that housing prices were going up because of undocumented immigrants and proposed banning mortgages for immigrants who are not American citizens.
We also cannot ignore the impact that the flood of 21 million illegal aliens has had on housing costs,” Trump said. Trump’s claim that there are 21 million unauthorized immigrants in America is false. As of 2022, there are about 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the country, according to a July report by the Pew Research Center.
As for Trump’s overall approval rating, polls have shown the 47th president’s approval continues to drop . The Economist/YouGov poll, released between April 19 and April 22, found Trump to have an approval of 41% and a disapproval of 54%, leaving his net approval at -13. This marks a drop in overall approval compared to the previous poll conducted by Economist/YouGov between April 13 and April 15.
That poll found that Trump had 45% approval and 53% disapproval. The poll had a sample size of 1512 U.S.
adult citizens and a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4%. A poll from Fox News released on April 23 found that Trump had a disapproval of 55% and an approval of 44%.
The Fox News poll was conducted between April 18 and April 21 with a sample size of 1,104 registered voters and a margin of error of plus or minus 3%. The Fox News poll results mark a sharp jump in Trump’s disapproval compared to its previous poll in March . That poll, which was conducted between March 14 and March 17, 51% of respondents said they disapproved of Trump’s handling of the presidency, compared to 49% who said they approved.
The March Fox News Poll had a sample size of 994 registered voters and a margin of error of plus or minus 3%. More on Politics Read the original article on MassLive ..
