July 14th, 2025.

Trump appointees insist they have a mandate to drive undocumented immigrants out of the U.S.

and prevent new immigrants from coming in, and are launching a massive increase in immigration and

customs enforcement officers and detention facilities to do so but a poll

released Friday shows that only 35% of American adults approve of Trump's

handling of immigration while 62% disapprove the poll shows a record 79% of adults saying immigration is good for the country,

with only 17% seeing it is bad. Only 30% of American adults say immigration should be reduced.

The poll shows that 85% of American adults want laws to allow immigrants who were brought to the U.S.

illegally as children the chance to become U.S. citizens if they meet certain requirements

over a period of time. 78% of American adults want the law to allow immigrants living in the U.S. illegally the chance

to become U.S. citizens if they meet certain requirements over a period of time. Only 38 percent

want the government to deport all immigrants who are living in the United States illegally back to their

home country.

The poll shows Americans eager to fix a problem that stems from a bipartisan

1965 law that reworked America's immigration laws.

In 1924, during a period of opposition to immigration that fueled the second rise of the Ku Klux Klan,

Congress had passed the nation's first comprehensive immigration law.

That law, known as the Johnson-Reed Act, limited immigration according to quotas assigned to each country.

Those quotas were heavily weighted toward Western Europe, virtually

prohibiting immigration from Asia and Africa and dramatically curtailing it from Southern Europe.

The Johnson-Reed Act simply taxed workers coming to the U.S. from Mexico because from the time the

current border was set in 1848, until the 1930s,

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