Americans less welcoming of immigrants without legal status, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Among Hispanics, a group that exit polls showed swung heavily toward Trump in November relative to the 2020 election, support for letting immigrants stay even if they lack legal status fell to 47% from 54% in 2017.
41% : Brett Buerck, CEO of the Republican-focused consulting firm Majority Strategies, said in an email that voters want Trump to take action with immigration enforcement and are "tired of endless talk without real progress.
38% : Republican pollster Whit Ayres said Trump could lose support if he splits apart families, puts immigrants into World War Two-style internment camps or deports people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, a group known as "Dreamers.""Most Americans are not going to support deporting a father who is a sole breadwinner of a family of American citizens," Ayres said.
37% : "I don't want to be breaking up families, so the only way you don't break up the family is you keep them together and you have to send them all back," Trump said.
33% : In an interview with NBC News that aired on Sunday, Trump said he aimed to deport all immigrants in the U.S. illegally.
31% : The poll showed a modest hardening of views on immigration among many Americans but also points to potential political risks for Trump depending on how aggressively he implements his deportation campaign after he takes office on Jan. 20.Only 30% of respondents agreed with a statement that "illegal immigrants should be arrested and put in detention camps while awaiting deportation hearings," while 53% disagreed.
27% : Trump recaptured the White House in November after vowing to crack down on legal and illegal immigration, including a pledge to deport record numbers of immigrants in the U.S. illegally.
25% : Among Black respondents, who continued to overwhelmingly oppose Trump in November according to exit polls, the share that backed letting people stay fell to 36% from 58% in 2017.
18% : In an April interview, Trump declined to rule out building detention camps but said there "wouldn't be that much of a need for them" because immigrants would be deported quickly.
5% : During this year's election campaign, Trump railed against Democratic President Joe Biden for allowing what Trump falsely depicted as a wave of violent crimes committed by immigrants in the country illegally.

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