Members of the National Guard stand by at Union Station, August 14, 2025 in Washington. Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesDonald Trump has always linked immigrant deportation with crime reduction. The poor public reaction to ICE and DHS raids has caused the White House to shift its rhetoric to criminal enforcement with the National Guard in D.C. as the visual.
A host of recent polls show that as deportation has ramped up to meet White House quotas with masked, armed agents at schools, parks, store parking lots, hospitals, car washes or just roving, public support has dropped. What had been Trump’s best issue is now negative. Crime fighting remains a popular rationale for deportation. The President has targeted DC as “crime infested,” along with most Red state large cities, and he is using the National Guard. Early polls show that using the military in cities may be as controversial as the ICE raids.
- 53% approve Trump’s crime approach but only 43% approve his deportation tactics by August (APNORC). 55% of Americans said Trump goes too far deporting immigrants. Up ten points since February.
- 8 in 10 say crime is a major problem in large cities (APNORC poll). 55% okay to use military or National Guard to assist large cities but only a third (32%) believe they should take control major city police departments.
- ICE, the nation’s biggest law enforcement agency, is seeing its favorability rating collapse since the start of Trump’s term. It was a positive 15 points and now is 3 points negative (39% favorable vs. 52% unfavorable) (YouGov-Yahoo survey late June).
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