Fox News Poll: Two-thirds favor deporting immigrants who live in U.S. illegally

At rallies crossed the country, erstwhile President Donald Trump has pledged to enact wide deportations of amerciable immigrants, thing helium vowed to bash during his archetypal word but ne'er afloat realized.

The latest Fox News Poll, released Thursday, finds two-thirds of voters favour specified a argumentation – precisely wherever it was past December and up 15 points since the question was archetypal asked successful 2015.  Nearly one-third opposes wide deportations.

Since 2015, enactment for deporting those surviving successful the U.S. illegally is up crossed the board, but astir notably among nonwhite voters (+24 points favor), Republicans (+21 points), agrarian voters (+20), municipality voters (+19), and men (+16).  Democrats are besides much apt to favour this present but by a smaller 8-point margin.

At the aforesaid time, enactment for allowing amerciable immigrants with jobs to enactment successful the state and use for ineligible presumption is decreasing.  Fifty-eight percent of voters favour allowing those with jobs to stay, down 4 points from past twelvemonth and 10 points since 2015.

While enactment for allowing those with jobs to enactment and use for ineligible presumption is down among astir demographics, Republicans are the driving unit down the dip – down 28 points from a decennary ago.  Democrats are the opposite; they are much apt to favour allowing them to enactment by 4 points. 

Fox News Poll: Trump up of Harris by 2 points nationally

Immigration has been 1 of 3 apical issues this predetermination cycle, on with termination and the system (the apical issue). The caller Fox News survey is nary different:  40% enactment the system astatine fig one, followed by 17% for immigration, and 15% for abortion. No different contented reaches treble digits.

When asked to sanction the azygous astir important contented oregon origin motivating them to vote, Trump supporters mention migration (17%) and the system (18%) arsenic apical motivators.  For Vice President Harris supporters, it’s dislike of Trump (17%), followed by termination and protecting ideology (14% each) motivating them vote. Just 1% of Harris supporters mention immigration. 

By a 15-point margin, Trump is seen arsenic amended to grip immigration, up from a 10-point vantage successful September. This vantage isn’t new, arsenic the erstwhile president has been consistently beating Harris and Biden connected this issue.

Fox News Poll: Harris, Trump successful adjacent contention successful North Carolina

Still, 1 crushed the presidential race is truthful adjacent is due to the fact that astir 1 successful 10 voters who accidental migration is their apical contented (9%) backmost Harris, arsenic bash 1 successful 10 who deliberation Trump tin amended grip the migration contented (13%).

Overall, Trump has a 2-point vantage implicit Harris successful the statesmanlike matchup (50% to 48%) among some registered voters and apt voters, good wrong the borderline of error.

From the confederate borderline to planetary wars…

-- Voters are progressively apt to deliberation the U.S. should beryllium doing little erstwhile it comes to Ukraine and its warfare with Russia.  Forty percent deliberation the U.S. should beryllium doing less, up 5 points since May and up 14 points from 2022. Roughly a 4th deliberation we should beryllium doing much portion 1 3rd accidental the assistance is astir the close amount.

-- Views connected U.S. enactment to Israel are split: 32% accidental excessively supportive, 29% not supportive enough, and 35% accidental it’s astir right. This is astir wherever it was successful May, the past clip the question was asked, but since November 2023 the fig saying not supportive capable has accrued (21% to 29%) portion those saying astir close has decreased (45% to 35%).  

-- By 13 points, voters presumption Trump arsenic amended capable to grip the warfare successful the Middle East (55% Trump vs. 42% Harris).  That’s up from a 7-point pb successful September.

Conducted October 11-14, 2024 nether the absorption of Beacon Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R), this Fox News survey includes interviews with a illustration of 1,110 registered voters randomly selected from a nationalist elector file. Respondents spoke with unrecorded interviewers connected landlines (129) and cellphones (719) oregon completed the survey online aft receiving a substance (262). Results based connected some the afloat registered elector illustration and the subsample of 870 apt voters person a borderline of sampling mistake of ±3 percent points. Sampling mistake associated with results among subgroup is higher. In summation to sampling error, question wording and bid tin power results. Weights are mostly applied to age, race, education, and country variables to guarantee the demographics of respondents are typical of the registered elector population. Sources for processing value targets see the American Community Survey, Fox News Voter Analysis, and elector record data. Likely voters are based connected a probabilistic statistical exemplary that relies connected past ballot history, involvement successful the existent election, age, education, race, ethnicity, religion attendance, and marital status.

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