July 20, 2025.

On Friday, G. Elliot Morris of strength and numbers reported that polls show Trump's position plummeting.

On Friday morning, the average job approval rating for Trump was 42.6%, with 53.5% disapproving.

Those numbers break down by policy like this. Gallup polls show that only 35% of Americans approve of Trump's immigration policy, with 62% opposed. A new poll out from CBS News

UGov today shows that support for Trump's deportations has dropped 10 points from the start of his term,

from 59% to 49%. 58% of Americans oppose the administration's use of detention facilities.

The numbers in a CNN SSRS poll released today are even more negative for the administration.

59% of Americans oppose deporting undocumented immigrants without a criminal record, while only 23% support such deportations,

and 57% are opposed to building new detention facilities, while only 26% support such a plan.

American approval of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, is unlikely to rise as news

spreads that last Monday, the government gave ICE unprecedented access to the records of nearly

80 million people on Medicaid, allegedly to enable ICE to find undocumented immigrants.

Kimberly Kindy and Amanda Sites of the Associated Press

reported that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

signed an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security

that enables ICE to access Medicaid recipient's name,

ethnicity and race, birth date, home address, and social

security number.

Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for Medicaid, although they may use it in an emergency

to cover life-saving services in a hospital emergency room.

The release of personal information from Medicaid lists

is unprecedented. Senator Adam Schiff, a Democrat of California, warned, the massive transfer

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