{"id":53127,"date":"2026-01-26T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=53127"},"modified":"2026-01-27T03:17:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T09:17:22","slug":"trumps-immigration-approval-drops-to-record-low-reuters-ipsos-poll-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=53127","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s immigration approval drops to record low, Reuters\/Ipsos poll finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Summary<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Poll shows 58% say ICE crackdown has gone too far<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Trump&#8217;s overall approval rating falls to 38%, tied for lowest of his term<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Republicans still have an edge of Democrats on immigration policy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (Reuters) &#8211; American approval of U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/trump-send-border-czar-homan-minnesota-2026-01-26\/\"><u>immigration policy<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;fell to its lowest level since his return to the White House in a new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/data\/trumps-approval-rating-2025-01-21\/\"><u>Reuters\/Ipsos poll<\/u><\/a>, with a majority of Americans saying his crackdown on immigration has gone too far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The poll, conducted nationwide Friday through Sunday, gathered responses before and after immigration officers on Saturday killed a second U.S. citizen in Minneapolis during confrontations with protesters over Trump&#8217;s deployment of immigration agents to cities across the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Just 39% of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing on immigration, down from 41% earlier this month, while 53% disapprove, the poll found. Immigration was a brighter spot for Trump&#8217;s popularity in the weeks following his January inauguration. In February, 50% approved and 41% disapproved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Trump won the 2024 presidential election after promising a historic surge in deportations. Masked immigration officers, often in tactical military-style gear, have become a common sight across the country and protests against the crackdown have erupted in several cities, including Minneapolis, where immigration agents have responded with deadly force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Trump administration officials have accused 37-year-old nurse, Alex Pretti, of assaulting officers during a protest in Minneapolis before an agent shot him dead, though that account has appeared&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/federal-officials-dig-minneapolis-shooting-narrative-despite-video-evidence-2026-01-25\/\"><u>at odds<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;with videos recorded by bystanders. Weeks earlier in Minneapolis, an immigration agent shot dead 37-year-old Renee Good, another U.S. citizen, during an immigration raid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>MAJORITY SAY ICE GOES TOO FAR<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Some 58% of poll respondents said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have gone &#8220;too far&#8221; in their crackdown, while 12% said they had not gone far enough and 26% said the agents&#8217; efforts were &#8220;about right.&#8221; About nine in 10 Democrats said the agents have gone too far, compared to two in 10 Republicans and six in 10 independents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Viral videos of clashes have caused unease among Republican lawmakers, many of whom are already confronting voter anger over rising prices ahead of November&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/data\/which-party-do-americans-want-run-congress-2025-11-05\/\"><u>midterm elections<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;when control of Congress and most state governorships are up for grabs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A leading Republican candidate for Minnesota&#8217;s governor&#8217;s race, Chris Madel,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/republican-quits-minnesota-governor-race-criticizing-ice-surge-2026-01-26\/\"><u>dropped his bid<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;on Monday, saying the crackdown had gone too far and had made the race unwinnable for a Republican.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Trump has blamed Democrats for the shooting deaths but on Monday appeared&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/trump-send-border-czar-homan-minnesota-2026-01-26\/\"><u>less confrontational<\/u><\/a>, saying he was &#8220;on a similar wavelength&#8221; with the Democratic governor of Minnesota. Trump said he and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz had a &#8220;very good call.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>OVERALL RATING TIES TERM LOW<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The latest Reuters\/Ipsos poll showed Trump&#8217;s overall approval rating sinking to 38%, tying the lowest level of his current term as it dropped from 41% in the prior Reuters\/Ipsos poll conducted January 12-13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/data\/trumps-approval-rating-2025-01-21\/\"><u>While Trump&#8217;s ratings have fallen<\/u><\/a>, he continues to perform considerably better on immigration than his predecessor in office, former Democratic President Joe Biden. Americans also continue to have more confidence in Trump&#8217;s Republican Party on the issue, with 37% of respondents in the latest poll saying Republicans have the better approach on immigration, compared to 32% who prefer Democrats. The rest said they weren&#8217;t sure or that neither party was better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The latest poll, conducted online nationwide, gathered responses from 1,139 U.S. adults and had a margin of error of about 3 percentage points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/trumps-immigration-approval-drops-record-low-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2026-01-26\/\">reuters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (Reuters) &#8211; American approval of U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s&nbsp;immigration policy&nbsp;fell to its lowest level since his return to the White House in a new&nbsp;Reuters\/Ipsos poll, with a majority of Americans saying his crackdown on immigration has gone too far. The poll, conducted nationwide Friday through Sunday, gathered responses before and after immigration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":53129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3104,1214,1230],"class_list":["post-53127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-approval","tag-immigration","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53133,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53127\/revisions\/53133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}