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New poll reveals Americans’ views on key Trump policies

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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President Trump’s hardline immigration policies have earned mixed reviews from Americans. That’s according to our latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll released Tuesday. Amna Nawaz discussed the numbers with NPR's Domenico Montanaro. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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President Trump's hardline immigration policies have earned mixed reviews from Americans.

0:05.5

That's according to our latest PBS News, NPR Marist Poll, released today.

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To walk us through some of the new numbers, I'm joined now by NPR's Domenico Montanaro.

0:14.8

Great to see you.

0:15.4

Hey, great to be with you.

0:16.2

Let's pick up on immigration that Laura was just reporting on.

0:18.9

It was a central issue for Mr. Trump's reelection campaign.

0:22.2

How do voters look at this issue at this point in his presidency?

0:24.6

Well, his handling of immigration mirrors his overall job approval rating.

0:28.7

Only 43% say that they approve of the job that the president is doing when it comes to handling

0:34.0

immigration.

0:35.0

52% disapprove.

0:37.0

And like I said, that's the same number as approve and

0:39.8

disapprove of him overall. He doesn't get really good marks on almost anything either. Only 41%

0:46.1

approve of his job on foreign policy and just 39% on the economy. So immigration is the best of

0:51.7

those, but still not great. Domenico, like a lot of issues, it gets more interesting, the deeper you go.

0:56.8

Our colleague Josh Barraha spoke to a number of voters about the president's immigration agenda.

1:01.5

One, a man named Steven Singh, who's an independent voter in California, had this to say.

1:06.5

I would love a more streamlined pathway to citizenship for immigrants.

1:12.6

I don't want to see students deported.

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I need to see students being deported as a weapon to spread someone's political ideals and

1:20.6

to silence others.

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