The immigration policies of the administration of United States President Donald Trump are alienating more voters from the Republican Party than they manage to attract, according to a survey released this Monday.
Nine months before the midterm legislative elections next November, the survey conducted by the firm Morris Predictive Insights indicates that the increase in deportations and deployment of immigration agents in Democratic-majority cities it has a “negative net effect” among Republicans.
The study, carried out between February 6 and 10, shows that 54% of voters who supported Trump in 2024 and now declare themselves sympathetic to Democrats or undecided say that the application of anti-immigration measures makes them less likely to vote for Republicans again.
Overall, 35% of respondents believe that immigration enforcement makes them less likely to support Trump’s party, compared to 26% who say the opposite.
Only 40% approve of the Administration’s aggressive deportation policy, while 57% disapprove.
Similar figures are recorded regarding the sending of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) agents to cities across the country, with 35% stating that this distances them from the Republican Party.
The survey also reflects a deterioration in the image of Trump’s party: 51% of those interviewed say they see it less favorably now than a year ago, compared to 17% who declare they have a more positive opinion.
On the other hand, 69% of those surveyed believe that the Trump Administration is paying too much attention to deportations and too little to problems such as the economy, inflation and the increase in the cost of living.
That perception is shared by 87% of those who did not vote for the Republican, 77% of the voters who supported him in 2024 and now declare themselves Democrats or undecided, and by 32% of those who remain loyal to the president.
Former Trump voters who have abandoned the party cite the economy, the president’s behavior and rhetoric, and deployments of immigration agents in cities, among other concerns, as the main reasons for their change of course.
The survey was conducted on a sample of 1,500 adults throughout the country and with a margin of error of 2.5 percentage points.
These results are known on the eve of the State of the Union speech that Trump will deliver on Tuesday before Congress, in which he is expected to defend his immigration strategy in a context of growing citizen concern about the economic situation and after the Supreme Court ruling that invalidates a large part of the tariffs imposed by the president.
