President Trump’s approval rating on immigration has dropped by 5 percentage points since the beginning of the month, according to a new poll from The Economist/YouGov.
In the poll, 45 percent said that when it comes to the way Trump is handling immigration, they “strongly” or “somewhat” back it. A poll from earlier this month found 50 percent of respondents backed the approach.
Fifty percent in Thursday’s poll said they viewed Trump’s handling of immigration unfavorably, with 5 percent saying they had no opinion.
In his first few months back in the White House, Trump’s administration has followed through on his campaign promise to crackdown on immigration. On Day 1, Trump signed a handful of executive orders seeking to challenge birthright citizenship and militarize the border to curb illegal immigration, among other actions.
The administration has also moved to deport individuals under an emergency law from the 18th century, which is being challenged in court. More than 200 Venezuelan and Salvadoran men have been removed from the country by the administration to a Salvadoran prison over alleged gang ties.
Fifty percent in the Thursday poll supported the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident wrongly deported to a Salvadoran prison last month.
Abrego Garcia’s situation has become a point of pushback for Democrats against the Trump administration and its immigration agenda, with multiple lawmakers traveling to El Salvador to press for his return to the U.S.
A group of House Democrats who made their way to the Central American country Monday were denied a meeting with Abrego Garcia and said they were urging for daily “proof of life.”
The Economist/YouGov poll took place from April 19-22, featuring 1,625 people and a margin of error of 3.3 percentage points.
