“Clear and Consistent” – Americans Want Balanced, Common Sense Immigration Solutions

Read updated polling memo HERE and join virtual event on Thursday at 1 PM ET with leading pollsters and immigration experts; access online version of this press release HERE

Washington, DC — Fresh polling and analysis adds to the clear set of takeaways regarding immigration public opinion, including among Latino voters:

• Americans are opposed to the cruelty, chaos and overreach of the Trump mass deportation agenda;
• They want a balanced approach – pairing order at the border and legal pathways for hardworking immigrants; and,
• Despite the growing unpopularity of the Trump immigration agenda, voters don’t trust Democrats to credibly deliver on these solutions.

For more, find poll specifics in the America’s Voice polling memo, updated to reflect the latest batch of relevant polling, and join an America’s Voice virtual press event Thursday July 31 at 1 PM Eastern, featuring pollsters and experts from Global Strategy Group, Third Way and UnidosUS. RSVP to press@americasvoice.org to join.

According to Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice:

“The poll findings are clear and consistent: Americans are hungering for common sense immigration solutions, not the chaos and cruelty they’re currently witnessing. Voters want a balanced approach, pairing order at the border and legal pathways for hardworking people, instead of masked militarized raids targeting families who’ve been here for years and mass deportation tanking key American industries. Democrats and pro-immigrant lawmakers have an enormous opportunity to meet the demand of the American people and must seize this moment and define those solutions and chart a contrasting vision to Trump’s agenda that connects with the broader electorate, including Latino voters.”

Among the fresh round of polling and analysis include:

Ben Kamisar of NBC News reports in “How Trump’s poll numbers on immigration have shifted as he has enacted his agenda”:

“While Trump still gets good marks on some specifics, including border security, many of his more aggressive specific immigration policies don’t poll well, even as he continues to press on with immigration as a signature issue … While most Trump voters remain satisfied with his handling of immigration and other issues, some have told NBC News that they take issue with his approach.

‘For one, I think it’s immoral,’ Jorge, 21, an independent from Florida who voted for Trump last year, said in an interview following up on his responses in a previous poll. He criticized the Trump administration for not ‘taking the time to separate the people who do not need to be here, which are the criminals, illegal criminals and migrants, and separating from the working people that benefit our society,’ said Jorge, who declined to share his last name while discussing national politics. ‘It’s disappointing. … He thinks he can just take everyone.’”

Ariana Figueroa of States Newsroom reports from a press event focused on the Latino community and quoting Vanessa Cárdenas:

“Vanessa Cárdenas, executive director of the immigration advocacy group America’s Voice, said the [massive reconciliation] bill will also affect Latino communities because of its more than $170 billion increase for immigration enforcement. She said Democrats should lean into immigration policy and push back against the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown and plans for mass deportations.

‘Democrats need to take this opportunity and need to be able to bring people in to share in their vision of what a functional immigration system is,’ she said. ‘It is very frustrating that we are not seeing again, more Democrats really leaning in on this issue.’”

Fresh polling from the Wall Street Journal and Fox News underscores that while Trump’s immigration and deportation vision is unpopular, Democrats have work to do to earn back Americans’ trust on immigration:

• Wall Street Journal polling released this week found Republicans in Congress are trusted to handle “immigration” over congressional Democrats by a 17-point margin. The same poll also found by a 51-23% margin, respondents said President Trump’s efforts to deport illegal immigrants “have gone too far,” over “not far enough.”
• Fox News polling from this week found Republicans are favored over Democrats by a 52-46% margin on a “which party you trust on immigration” question. The same poll also found that Americans prefer a path to citizenship over mass deportation by a 59-29% margin when asked about preferred policies for undocumented immigrants.

Read the updated America’s Voice July 2025 polling memo with five key lessons from polling, “Americans Increasingly Reject Mass Deportation, Support Legal Status and Balanced Solutions”