Trump’s mass deportation is backfiring -CNN Politics
Customs and Border Protection officers and California National Guard troops hold the line as protesters shine flashlights on them after federal immigration agents conducted a raid on Glass House Farms in Camarillo, California, on July 10. Blake Fagan / AFP/ Getty Images
Analysis by Aaron Blake, CNN, 3 minute read, Published 7:00 AM EDT, Sun July 13, 2025
Trump’s mass deportation is backfiring
CNN — President Donald Trump and his administration continue to bet big on the issue that, more than any other, appeared to help him win him a second term in 2024: immigration.
The administration and its allies have gleefully played up standoffs between federal immigration agents and protesters, such as the one Thursday during a raid at a legal marijuana farm in Ventura County, California.
And as congressional Republicans were passing a very unpopular Trump agenda bill last month, Vice President JD Vance argued that its historic expansion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and new immigration enforcement provisions were so important that “everything else” was “immaterial.”
But this appears to be an increasingly bad bet for Trump and Co.
It’s looking more and more like Trump has botched an issue that, by all rights, should have been a great one for him. And ICE’s actions appear to be a big part of that.
The most recent polling on this comes from Gallup, where the findings are worse than those of any poll in Trump’s second term.
The nearly monthlong survey conducted in June found Americans disapproved of Trump’s handling of immigration by a wide margin: 62% to 35%. And more than twice as many Americans strongly disapproved (45%) as strongly approved (21%).
It also found nearly 7 in 10 independents disapproved.
These are Trump’s worst numbers on immigration yet. But the trend has clearly been downward – especially in high-quality polling like Gallup’s.
An NPR-PBS News-Marist College poll conducted late last month, for instance, showed 59% of independents disapproved of Trump on immigration. And a Quinnipiac University poll showed 66% of independents disapproved.
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