{"id":302242,"date":"2025-01-21T08:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T08:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=302242"},"modified":"2025-01-22T08:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T08:53:08","slug":"poll-overwhelming-majority-of-americans-support-trumps-plan-to-deport-criminal-illegal-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=302242","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Overwhelming Majority of Americans Support Trump\u2019s Plan To Deport Criminal Illegal Aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Spencer Lindquist \u2013 The Daily Wire Jan 20, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The overwhelming majority of Americans support deporting illegal aliens with a criminal record, a poll from the New York Times found, affirming support for one of President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s core campaign promises.<\/p>\n<p>Almost nine in ten Americans, 87 percent, back the policy, with just ten percent opposing it, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/18\/us\/politics\/trump-policies-immigration-tariffs-economy.html\">New York Times poll<\/a> found.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NYT POLL: \u201cA vast majority of Americans \u2014 87 percent \u2014 support deporting undocumented immigrants with a criminal record, which Mr. Trump has said would be one of the first orders of business he carries out.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OCdg8SV7TR\">pic.twitter.com\/OCdg8SV7TR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Karoline Leavitt (@karolineleavitt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/karolineleavitt\/status\/1880634439585395196?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The poll also found that 63 percent of Americans support deporting immigrants who are here illegally and arrived over the past four years. Another 55 percent of Americans are in support of deporting all immigrants who are here illegally.<\/p>\n<p>The results come as the House of Representatives prepares to focus on immigration in the first days of the Trump presidency. The House Judiciary Committee\u2019s first hearing in 2025 will be titled \u200b\u200b\u201cRestoring Immigration Enforcement in America\u201d and will discuss \u201cwhat the Trump administration can do to restore integrity to America\u2019s immigration system,\u201d The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-first-house-judiciary-hearing-of-2025-to-focus-on-biden-border-failures\">exclusively reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is expected to sign several executive orders upon being inaugurated, including some addressing border security.<\/p>\n<p>The results of the Times survey reaffirm previous polling, which found Americans highly support deportations, one of Trump\u2019s flagship campaign promises.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/americans-strongly-supportive-of-trumps-mass-deportation-agenda-poll-finds\">60 percent<\/a> of respondents to a CBS News poll said they would support an effort to deport all illegal aliens from the United States, not just those who have been convicted of a violent crime.<\/p>\n<p>One <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/majority-of-americans-support-building-border-wall-increasing-deportations-penalizing-businesses-that-hire-illegal-immigrants\">poll<\/a> from the summer found that 65 percent of Americans want to increase the number of deportations of illegal aliens. A majority of Americans, 54 percent, also said that the border wall should continue to be built, while 66 percent said that businesses that hire illegal aliens should face harsher penalties. Another poll found that most American adults want <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/majority-of-americans-want-fewer-immigrants-poll-finds\">less immigration<\/a> into the United States.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/poll-overwhelming-majority-of-americans-support-trumps-plan-to-deport-criminal-illegal-aliens\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 9 out of 10 Americans support Trump&#8217;s plan to deport illegal aliens with criminal records, poll finds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-european-migrant-crisis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302243,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302242\/revisions\/302243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}