President Trump\u2019s approval rating on immigration has dropped by 5 percentage points since the beginning of the month, according to a new poll from The Economist\/YouGov.<\/p>\n
In the poll, 45 percent said that when it comes<\/a> to the way Trump is handling immigration, they \u201cstrongly\u201d or \u201csomewhat\u201d back it. A poll from earlier this month<\/a> found 50 percent of respondents backed the approach.<\/p>\n Fifty percent in Thursday’s poll said they viewed Trump’s handling of immigration unfavorably, with 5 percent saying they had no opinion.<\/p>\n In his first few months back in the White House, Trump\u2019s administration has followed through on his campaign promise to crackdown on immigration. On Day 1<\/a>, Trump signed a handful of executive orders seeking to challenge birthright citizenship and militarize the border to curb illegal immigration, among other actions.<\/p>\n The administration has also moved to deport individuals under an emergency law from the 18th century, which is being challenged in court.<\/a> More than 200 Venezuelan and Salvadoran men have been removed<\/a> from the country by the administration to a Salvadoran prison over alleged gang ties.<\/p>\n Fifty percent in the Thursday poll supported the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident wrongly deported to a Salvadoran prison<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n Abrego Garcia\u2019s situation has become a point of pushback for Democrats against the Trump administration and its immigration agenda, with multiple lawmakers traveling<\/a> to El Salvador to press for his return to the U.S.<\/p>\n A group of House Democrats who made their way to the Central American country Monday were denied a meeting with Abrego Garcia and said they were urging for daily \u201cproof of life.\u201d<\/p>\n The Economist\/YouGov poll took place from April 19-22, featuring 1,625 people and a margin of error of 3.3 percentage points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Trump\u2019s approval rating on immigration has dropped by 5 percentage points since the beginning of the month, according to a new poll from The Economist\/YouGov. In the poll, 45<\/p>\n