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Immigration Is Where It Should Have Been
The new poll isn't surprising if you've read older polls carefully.
mister mix
April 24, 2025
Trump is now underwater on immigration:
A YouGov/Economist poll released Wednesday indicates that Americans have soured on Trump’s immigration stances, with 50 percent of respondents disapproving compared to 45 percent approving.
The poll comes on the heels of a Reuters-Ipsos poll published Monday that indicated that 46 percent of the country disapproved of Trump’s immigration policies. And earlier this month, a Quinnipiac survey found that 50 percent of polled respondents didn’t agree with Trump on immigration.
Plus this:
This should come as no surprise to anyone who read beyond the toplines of most polls. The way people feel about immigration is dependent on the way that the question is asked. If you ask whether people want to deport illegal immigrations, they say “yes”. If you ask them if they want to deport immigrants with families who are working at jobs and not committing crimes, they say “no”. The cases that are being publicized are the latter, so naturally overall sentiment has changed.
This isn’t that hard. I’m sorry that some Democrats thought it was a “trap” to stick up for the rights of immigrants, but Van Hollen showed that it could get you a lot of positive attention. Bukele has wised up and the latest set of Democrats who went to El Salvador were denied access to Garcia. It made much less of a media splash, but it was reported in local media. Democrats should keep it up.
Immigration is the one issue where Trump had some popular support, due to his framing of immigrants as criminals. When it turns out that most of them are law-abiding hard workers, scooped up by accident and sent to a foreign prison, then popular sentiment changes. When it turns out that Garcia’s wife, a US citizen, is doxxed by the goon squad and has to move to a safe house, that just makes it worse.
There’s not a lot more to say here, other than the average person, say 60% of the population, isn’t so full of hate that they can’t be reached with a simple message:
Immigrants do a lot of work US citizens don’t want to do.
Hard-working immigrants come to the US because we have jobs, not to commit crimes, and we need give them a legal path to do so.
Everything the Trump administration does is sloppy and lazy, and this is the only reason that they decided to throw people — many of whom are here legally, and some of whom could be US citizens — into a foreign prison run by a corrupt dictator.
Due process protects everyone, and lack of due process means friends, family or you could end up in a foreign prison by mistake made by sloppy, lazy Trump cops.
Like most politics, it’s not that hard unless you make it so.
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