Americans have a variety of views on President Donald Trump’s immigration policy, according to the new ABC News/Washington Post/IPSOS poll.
The voters were divided into migrants living in the United States who did not have legal status accused of being a member of the gang to El Salvador prison without a court trial but mainly opposed to deporting international students who criticized US policies in the Middle East, according to a poll.
In the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a migrant who was deported to El Salvador despite a court order forbiddening it, more respondents said he had to be returned to the US rather than being imprisoned in El Salvador, 42-26%. There is room for movement; 3 of 10 in ABC News/Washington Post/IPSOS The poll released Friday said they did not know enough about this case.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a salvador migrant in this handout drawn by Reuters on April 9, 2025.
Abrego Garcia’s family via Reuters
Overall, 46% said they agreed to Trump’s way of handling immigration, while 53% said they did not agree. On the one hand, it was a decrease in 4 points in the Washington Post/IPSOS opinion in February. On the other hand, this is Trump’s best ranking in the seven problems tested in this survey, produced for ABC News by Langer Research Associateswith field work by IPSOS.
Views on immigration
ABC News / Washington Post / Ipsos Polling
There are about the division that even, moreover, about Trump’s efforts to deport immigrants who are not documented in general. Forty -eight percent said Trump was “too far” in this case, while 50%said he handled it about true (34%) or not far enough (16%).
There is also a close division on deportation suspected of gang members to El Salvador prison without a court trial: forty -seven percent said they supported this action, while 51% said they were against.
The results underlined the hostility of non -document immigrants, as seen differently from the view of deporting international students who have criticized US policy in the Middle East: In this case, support for deportation fell to 39%, with 59% opposing.
Partisan
Division is a strong factor.
Around 9 of the 10 Republicans said they approved the handling of Trump’s immigration, while 1 in 10 Democrats said they agreed. Among the independents, 45% said they agreed.
Trump also won approval for immigration of 93% of 2024 of its voters, compared to 8% of those who chose former Vice President Kamala Harris. However, he failed among those who did not vote for the president in the 2024 election, who did not approve Trump on immigration of 59%-40%.
Salvador prison guard escorted a man as a suspected member of the Venezuelan Geng Trend de Aragua and the MS-13 gang who recently deported by the US government must be imprisoned in the central prison of Terrorism Kurung (Cecot), in Tecoluca, El Salvador April 12, 2025.
Presidential Press Secretary through Reuters
In other extensive partisan gaps, 85% of Democrats said they thought Trump was “too far” with deportation. Sixty percent of the Republican said they thought he was handling this about really – and 27% said he was not far enough. Independent again falls between.
Views on immigration with partisanship
ABC News / Washington Post / Ipsos Polling
Republican attitude is not monolithic. Eighty -two percent said they supported sending suspected gang members to prison in El Salvador without a court trial. Fewer, but still 70%, said they supported deporting international students who were critical of US policy in the Middle East. Even fewer, 53%, said Abrego Garcia must remain at El Salvador, although only 14% said they supported the return, with the rest were not sure.
The Hispanics said they did not approve of the overall handling of Trump immigration, by 67%-32%. Men are divided about this problem, while most women say they do not agree, 58%-41%. Approval about this issue ranges from 65% of people in rural areas up to 45% in suburbs and 36% in cities, with a fairly large rural and suburban gender gap.
And there is a gap based on age: fifty -nine percent of those who are younger than 40 said that he disagreed Trump about immigration, while 48% of those aged 50 years and over said they did not agree.
Methodology: This ABC News/Washington Post/IPSOS poll is carried out online through IPSOS KNOWLEDGENAPEL-based Probability® 18-22 April 2025, in English and Spain, among random national samples of 2,464 adults. The partisan division is 30%-30%-29%, Democrats-Republic-Independent.
The results have a plus error margin or minus 2 points percentage, including design effects. Greater error margin for sub -group. Sampling error is not the only source of differences in the poll.
This survey was produced for ABC News by Langer Research Associateswith sampling and data collection by IPSOS. See details about the ABC news survey methodology here.