Overview

• Gallup’s June survey shows 79% of U.S. adults now view immigration as beneficial, up from 64% a year ago and the highest rating in nearly 25 years.
• Republicans’ positive view of immigration has surged from 39% to about two-thirds, and the share of Americans seeking lower immigration levels has plunged from 55% to 30%.
• Eighty-five percent of adults favor a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who meet certain requirements, including those brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
• Support for deporting immigrants living in the country illegally has dropped to 40%, and backing for increasing border patrol agents and expanding the border wall has declined sharply.
• Sixty-two percent of Americans disapprove of Trump’s immigration policies, including 45% who strongly disapprove, even as ICE steps up arrests of non-criminal immigrants and he vows to deport one million people annually.