POLLING SHOWS: Legal immigrants are valued community members

Mass Deportation, mass cruelty, widespread lawlessness has backfired:  

PBS Newshour

Immigrants are more popular than ever

American know ICE is lawless thuggery

Democrats and independents approve of a path

 to citizenship for undocumented workers.

Overall 65% of Americans agree on this

American Support for Legal Immigration Reaches New HeightsOctober 9, 2025-NEW STUDY

RESEARCHPUBLIC OPINION SURVEY BY SAM DONG AND CRAIG KAFURA

Key Findings

• Record or near-record numbers of Americans support increasing (28%) or maintaining current levels (49%) of legal immigration, while opposition to legal immigration is at an all-time low (21%).
• Just 36 percent of Americans see large numbers of immigrants and refugees arriving in the country as a critical threat, down from 50 percent last year.
• Two-thirds of Americans (65%) say immigrants currently working in the United States illegally should be able to apply for US citizenship, either immediately (43%) or after a penalty and waiting period (22%).
• Only a minority overall favor forcing undocumented workers to leave their jobs and the country altogether (23%), relatively unchanged from last year’s figure (20%).
• (Federal policy is out of step with public opinion.)

Support for Legal Immigration Hits All-Time High

Support for legal immigration has hit an all-time high since the Chicago Council Survey first asked this question in 2002. Today, half of Americans (49%) say that legal immigration into the United States should be kept at its present level, up from 44 percent in 2024. That percentage includes similar proportions across partisan groups, with half of Republicans (52%) and nearly as many Independents (48%) and Democrats (47%) in support of maintaining the present level of legal immigration.

Correspondingly, support for decreasing legal immigration has dropped from one-third of Americans (33%) last year to just one-fifth today (21%). This reverses a four-year upward trend from a previous record low of 27 percent in 2020. The timing suggests that Biden-era policies, perceived by many to be ineffectual on a surge of illegal migration on the southwest border, also affected perceptions of migration through legal routes. Under the second Trump administration, attitudes have reversed.

What Americans think about Trump’s deportations right now

Politics Updated on Jul 1, 2025 2:11 PM EDT — Published on Jul 1, 2025 5:00 AM EDT

As President Donald Trump seeks to keep his campaign promise of mass deportations, a majority of Americans say actions by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have “gone too far,” according to a new PBS News/NPR/Marist poll.

More than half of U.S. adults — 54% — described ICE’s actions in enforcing the country’s immigration laws as having “gone too far.” Another 18% percent said the agency has not gone far enough, while 26% said they’d describe ICE’s actions as “about right.”

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Five Immigrants To America Won 2024 And 2025 Nobel Prize In Economics

ByStuart Anderson,

Senior Contributor.

 Stuart Anderson writes about immigration, business and globalization.

Oct 13, 2025, 04:25pm EDT

PEW Research center

Source: Pew

ICE Serves Only to Terrorize and Occupy Americans

It's no longer just undocumented immigrants, Muslims, Black people, & pro-Palestinian activists who are targets. As ICE violently marches across American cities, the majority must stand up & resist.

THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali

 and 

Tara Setmayer

Oct 13, 2025

ICE is so cruel, extreme, and viciousin terrorizing fellow Americans that they have radicalized a former Republican who grew up in a law enforcement family and spent her career backing the Blue. Tara Setmayer, who left the GOP after Trump took over the party in 2016, spent most of her career as a conservative warrior promoting the Republican agenda. Now, she’s joining the majority and calling out Stephen Miller and Trump’s Gestapo that is abusing the badge to harass and assault innocent Americans.  more