move to revoke certain legal protections<\/a> for immigrants from her home country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cChanging those statuses is kind of unfair for the people that built their lives here,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mariana and some other voters also said the administration should prioritize deporting undocumented immigrants who committed crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI guess they\u2019re focusing on both those who have committed crimes and those who haven\u2019t,\u201d said Jennifer L., a 44-year-old Michigan voter of Mexican descent. She approved of Trump\u2019s overall performance as president but disapproved of his handling of illegal immigration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere\u2019s some that are going back because they should, but then there are also some immigrants that are going that really, maybe they haven\u2019t committed a crime,\u201d she later added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHe said he was going to focus on the criminals and stuff like that. And then there\u2019s people that are not criminals that are also going,\u201d said Oscar B., a 52-year-old Pennsylvania voter, adding that the Trump administration should take a more \u201ctailored approach.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oscar, who was born in Venezuela, also noted that he has seen posts on a local Facebook page for Latinos in his area that warn about Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPeople on there, they make posts where they talk about ICE being in the city and not to go out of your house,\u201d Oscar said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ruby of Georgia also said she has seen \u201ca lot of fear\u201d in her community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey\u2019re afraid to go out and [they say], \u2018Don\u2019t go out if you\u2019re a citizen, don\u2019t go out without your citizenship certificate or whatever because you never know,\u2019\u201d Ruby said. \u201cSo they\u2019re creating that source of fear around the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other voters, like Maria from Nevada, appeared to wrestle with different approaches to deporting undocumented immigrants who have been in the country for years “giving back to society,” she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt is the law,\u201d she later added, \u201cbut sometimes the law makes it nearly impossible for a lot of them to actually become citizens at the end of the day. And that\u2019s what we have to realize, also. So that\u2019s why I\u2019m torn.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe see in their responses how conflicted some of these voters are when it comes deporting longtime undocumented residents who have become de facto Americans, have families, pay taxes, live peacefully and contribute to society,” said Margaret Talev, director of Syracuse University\u2019s Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship, which leads the focus group project in partnership with Engagious\/Sago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Yet overwhelmingly they\u2019re still supporting President Trump, showing the resilience of their loyalty and just how motivated they are in opposing illegal immigration,\u201d Talev said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Los Angeles response<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nWhile there were some divisions over the Trump administration\u2019s deportations, the Trump voters who participated in the focus groups broadly backed Trump\u2019s response to protests against ICE raids in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ten of the 13 participants approved of the president\u2019s decision to deploy California National Guard troops and hundreds of Marines, with several voters describing the protests as violent and destructive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNormally it might be kind of out of the ordinary, being that it was so early into the demonstrations. But I think given the [Black Lives Matter] riots and everything our country went through a few years ago, and it being in California where [Gov. Gavin] Newsom will pretty much not put his foot down at all, I think that he had to get ahead of it, otherwise we would be seeing even more of it,\u201d said Rozlyn C., a 44-year-old Georgia voter of Cuban descent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThese idiots are trying to tear down their city,\u201d said Irma C., a 58-year-old Arizona voter of Mexican descent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The few who disapproved of Trump\u2019s actions described them as \u201ctoo much too soon\u201d or out of bounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere is a chain of command that has to be followed. A governor needs to request \u2014 we can\u2019t just go in there, the state needs to request. Now, he\u2019s just completely gone against that,\u201d Justin of Nevada said, referring to Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe U.S. military should never be used against its own citizens ever. Period. Ever,\u201d Justin later added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mostly positive on economy<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nSeveral of these voters said they supported Trump because they believed he could best address the economy and high prices, and for the most part they like what they\u2019ve seen of Trump so far on those issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eight voters said they feel less anxious about the economy compared to when Trump took office in January. Just two said they were more anxious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe reduced anxiety eight of them feel about the economy after just five months reflects not only their experiences as consumers, but also their faith in President Trump as businessman-turned-leader,\u201d said Thau, the focus group moderator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs a small-business owner, my costs went up under Biden,\u201d said William A., a 60 year-old Georgia voter of Puerto Rican descent, suggesting Biden\u2019s policies raised the price of oil, which impacted \u201ceverything else.\u201d In his view, Trump\u2019s policies are \u201craising our fuel production and lowering fuel costs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mariana, the North Carolina voter who was born in Venezuela, said she backed Trump and the Republican Party because of her concerns about the economy. She said she\u2019s seen local grocery prices go down since Trump took office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think that the inflation, economy\u2019s what they know and Trump being a businessman is just what he does and has been doing for a living,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Jennifer, the Michigan voter, said high prices on goods such as eggs, dairy, meat and produce have persisted, and she did not believe that Trump was making addressing inflation a priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI thought it would be a top priority instead of renaming the Gulf of Mexico the \u2018Gulf of America\u2019 instead,\u201d Jennifer said. \u201cBut hopefully it does happen. But definitely, in Michigan here it has not \u2014 prices here have gone up and have stayed up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A majority of voters also said they supported Trump\u2019s actions on trade and tariffs, with the rest saying they do not know enough about the issue to weigh in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Georgia’s Rozlyn C. said she disagreed with the president\u2019s decision to impose tariffs on some countries with which the U.S. did not have a trade deficit. But she is still broadly supportive of the president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think he has a grand master plan that most of us probably don\u2019t understand,\u201d Rozlyn said. \u201cBut I have faith that he, a hundred percent, has the best interest of our country at heart.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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