What part of illegal is so hard to understand? The Daily Wire on Tuesday, February 3. 2026 ran this headline, “Polls Deliver Clear Verdict: Americans Back Trump’s Deportation Agenda, Reject Anti-ICE Politics.”
Two new polls suggest that Americans broadly support the Trump administration’s deportation agenda even as “ICE Out” rages at the Grammys, though with some possible reservations about illegal aliens who have not committed other serious crimes.
The polling firm Cygnal released the results of a late January poll on Monday that shows majority support for deportations of illegal aliens. Conversely, Democratic calls to defund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and partially shut down the government over deportations are politically toxic.
“Voters see illegal immigration as a simple question of law and order,” said Cygnal founder and CEO Brent Buchanan. “The data leaves no wiggle room. Americans want the law enforced, they want illegal immigrants removed, and they punish politicians who try to block ICE from doing its job.”
But, if Americans perceive that ICE is taking a dragnet approach and sweeping up illegal aliens “randomly,” support for deportations falls to 44%.
Americans are solidly against deporting illegal aliens who have lived in the country for years without committing serious crimes, who arrived in the United States as children, or who are legal residents who have only committed minor infractions.
“We can not look at illegal immigration as half good, half bad.” said Thomas Robb, National Director of the Knights Party of the Ku Klux Klan, based in Harrison, Arkansas. “Any foreigner who does not enter our country through a port of entry has committed a crime. Period. It’s not up for debate how long they have been here, or if they’re working and haven’t committed another crime since entering illegally, they still committed a crime and need to be deported. If an American citizen crawled through a window to enter your house uninvited and took up residence in your attic, and lived there undetected for several years, even cleaning your house while you’re at work, and one day your roof started to leak so you needed to go to the attic to find where the leak was, and you found this person living in your attic, will you allow them to stay? Even though they’ve been there for years? And even if they worked cleaning your house daily? Or, would you feel violated and threatened and call law enforcement to remove them? Well folks, America is our house, and it’s full of criminals who came here illegally and took up residence, and since it’s my house too, I say it’s way past time for a spring cleaning to get them out of our house!”
