A majority of voters support President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities besieged by liberal protesters, and they decry decisions by activist judges to block the White House’s anti-illegal immigration campaign.
In its latest survey shared with Washington Secrets, Rasmussen Reports registered strong support for Trump’s bid to round up and deport immigrants who entered the country illegally.
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Asked simply if they “approve or disapprove of the Trump administration’s program to find and deport immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally” — with no mention of additional criminal charges or convictions — 53% said they approved and 43% didn’t.
As with most issues, the partisan split was enormous, as 86% of Republicans backed Trump’s top 2024 campaign promise and 68% of Democrats rejected it.
The gap was also replicated on the two other critical questions about liberal judges and Trump’s plan to use National Guard troops to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in cities including Portland and Chicago.
On the question of using National Guard troops, likely voters by a margin of 52%-43% supported the deployment over complaints from liberal city mayors and Democratic governors who have gone to court to block Trump from efforts to protect ICE facilities and agents.
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When asked about judges who side with the resistance mayors and governors, voters by a 56%-31% margin called their decisions a “legal insurrection” that is “flagrantly unlawful and unconstitutional.”
The poll is likely to embolden Trump’s use of the National Guard and his plans to expand deployments to other cities where violent protesters have attacked ICE agents and attempted to block arrests of illegal immigrants.