The Message is Clear: In Poll After Poll, Strong American Majority Rejects Mass Deportation

Washington, DC — Poll after poll is consistent: the more Americans witness the overreach, costs, and chaos of the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda, the more they reject it. A handful of fresh polls from recent days, from CNN, CBS, Reuters, and Quinnipiac, add to the above takeaway and echo both the findings of Gallup’s annual deep-dive immigration poll and the key takeaways and details from the recently released America’s Voice polling memo highlighting five key points about American public opinion. Among the new polls:

Trump’s immigration approval in decline:

• CBS/YouGov (July 2025): 56-44% disapproval of Trump on immigration (was 50-50% in June poll).
• Reuters/Ipsos (July 2025): 51-41% disapproval of Trump on immigration. In May, Reuters/Ipsos found 47-45% approval of Trump on immigration.
• CNN (July 2025): 58-42% disapproval of Trump’s handling of immigration.
• Quinnipiac (July 2025): 55-40% disapproval of Trump’s handling of “immigration issues.”

Trump’s “deportation” agenda is particularly unpopular, especially when details are included:

• CNN: (July 2025): 59% oppose and 23% support, “Arresting and detaining undocumented immigrants who have resided in the United States for years with no criminal record.” As CNN polling editor Ariel Edwards-Levy wrote, “That echoes a theme seen in much immigration polling this year — support for immigration enforcement tends to erode when pollsters specify that people without criminal records or longtime residents will be among those affected.”
• Quinnipiac (July 2025): 59-38% disapproval of Trump’s handling of “deportations” (59-39% disapproval in Quinnipiac’s June poll). Quinnipiac also found that by a 57-39% margin in the July poll, voters disapproved of “the way U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE, is enforcing immigration laws” (was a 56-39% “disapprove” margin in June).
• CBS/YouGov (July 2025): By a 51-49% margin, Americans disapprove of the “Trump administration’s program to deport immigrants illegally in the U.S.” In February, the same pollsters found 59-41% support when asking the same question.

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

“Americans didn’t vote for men in masks in unmarked cars, shattering windows and dragging people out of their cars. They didn’t vote for abducting long-settled immigrants living, working, and paying taxes in our communities. The more Americans witness the Trump/Miller mass deportation agenda the more they reject it. While the Trump team goes for broke targeting anyone they can, a strong majority of the American public is consistent in what they want: order at the border, legal channels for good and hardworking people and a process for Dreamers and long-settled immigrants to become U.S. citizens – not targets for detention or deportation.”

While the new round of polling detailed above didn’t engage as much on alternative immigration policy options, the July 2025 Gallup poll found that more than three-fourths of respondents – including a majority of Republicans – recognized that immigration is a “good thing” for the country and supported a way for Dreamers and the broader undocumented population to become U.S. citizens.

• Read America’s Voice recap on the key findings of the 2025 Gallup immigration poll here
• Read the America’s Voice July 2025 polling memo with five key lessons from polling, “Americans Increasingly Reject Mass Deportation, Support Legal Status and Balanced Solutions”