by Debra Heine
Nearly 80 percent of Americans favor the deportation of immigrants who are in the United States illegally and have committed crimes, and a clear majority favor deporting all immigrants who are here illegally, according to a new poll.
President Trump’s policy of deporting criminal illegal aliens is his second most popular policy according to the Harvard Caps/Harris poll, just under lowering prescription drug prices for Medicare recipients and low income patients.
The survey was conducted online within the United States on October 1-2, amid loud and often violent left-wing protests outside of ICE facilities in cities like Portland and Chicago. So far, Trump has deployed the National Guard in Washington, D.C. and Memphis.
In Washington, D.C., from August 7 to August 25, CBS News found the city’s violent crime rate dropped 49 percent compared to the same time period in 2024. In Memphis, during the first five days of the Make Memphis Safe Task Force, 227 arrests were made and 65 illegal guns were seized.
The vast majority of respondents—78 percent—said they favored “deporting immigrants who are here illegally and have committed crimes.” Even among Democrats, 69 percent said they favored the policy, while 77 percent of independents and 87 percent of Republicans do.
“Deporting all immigrants who are here illegally” garnered 56 percent support among all respondents.
The majority of Republicans and Independents favor the policy by 76 percent and 54 percent respectively, while only 36 percent of Democrats do.
“President Trump’s efforts to Make America Safe Again are very popular!” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt commented on X, Tuesday, in response to the poll.
The surprising results come as Democrat politicians in blue cities and states continue to resist the president’s deportation efforts, with far-left Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Monday signing an executive order designating “ICE-Free Zones,” and governors JB Pritsker and Gavin Newsom ) suing the Trump administration to block National Guard deployments in Illinois and California.
Members of the Texas National Guard have been deployed to Chicago to assist law enforcement in addressing the city’s crime problem.
Eliminating fraud and waste in the government polled as Trump’s third most popular policy, with 75 percent of support. Closing the border garnered 68 percent support from respondents, and launching a government website for consumers to by drugs directly from manufacturers at a discount also proved popular with 68 percent support.
Only 65 percent of respondents said they favored banning “men who have undergone operations and hormones” from competing in women’s sports, a low result compared to other recent polls.
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Debra Heine reports for American Greatness. Zachery Schmidt is the digital editor of The Star News Network and contributed to this story.
Deport ALL illegals. Period!!