Poll: Majority Favors Deportations as More Democrats Oppose Migration

Fifty-six percent of registered voters favor a policy of “arresting and deporting thousands of illegal immigrants,” according to a poll conducted in August by YouGov.

Just 35 percent of voters oppose the repatriation policy, according to the August 25-27 poll of 1,555 adult citizens and voters.

When counting only “strongly” opinions, the split was almost two-to-one, at 37 percent to 21 percent.

The YouGov results match other polls that show majorities favor large-scale deportations.

The rising opposition to migration reflects the gradual shift of Democratic voters from acceptance of migration towards rejection during President Joe Biden’s chaotic mass migration into American communities. That migration has inflated the nation’s population by roughly 10 million people who arrived via legal, illegal, and quasi-legal routes.

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The polling shift is shown by an interactive YouGov website, which shows how Americans agree or disagree with the statement, “Immigrants are a drain on national resources.”

From June 2020 to December 2023, the share of Americans who agree with the statement climbed from 30 percent to 43 percent.

The share who disagreed dropped from 46 percent to 32 percent.

That’s a 26-point shift across the nation up to December 2023.

One-quarter of Americans do not care, saying they are “neutral” on the issue.

But the decline in support for migration has been much steeper among Biden’s Democrats.

The share of Democrats who disagree that “Immigrants are a drain on national resources” dropped from 70 percent to 47 percent, marking a 23-point drop.

The share of Democrats who agreed jumped from 13 percent to 31 percent, while the neutral share nudged up from 17 percent to 22 percent.

The data shows a 40 percent shift among Democrats from June 2020 to December 2023.

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