A new national survey reveals the widespread appeal of President Trump’s law-and-order approach to immigration enforcement.
Americans reject street violence and insist that only legal, vetted migration be permitted into our homeland.
Perhaps most tellingly, Americans overwhelmingly believe that those who use violence and interfere with law enforcement deportation operations must face criminal charges.
When asked specifically about this kind of violence in Los Angeles recently, 68% said the violators must be prosecuted. Only 21% deem such charges as “not important.” Among men, 74% believe in criminal consequences, and only 18% disagree. In addition, nearly two-thirds of Hispanics (64%) demand these prosecutions.
Importantly, this poll began last Monday, June 9, just after the weekend of violence and mayhem in Los Angeles. The public feud between President Trump and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California was ongoing during the polling period of June 9-11, making this survey an especially useful barometer of public sentiment during this tension.
The American people believe in law-and-order, even when they are not necessarily supporters of President Trump overall. To prove this point, this survey found a Trump overall job approval rating of -7% with a 43/50% approve/disapprove. So, we did not sample some misleading pro-MAGA population.
That job approval is exactly in line with our national survey from April, which was also conducted by respected pollster TIPP Insights for my pro-laborer advocacy group, the League of American Workers.
But this poll proves that a large number of Trump-skeptical Americans still strongly approve of the president’s tough approach to stamping out illegal immigration, which ran amok during the Biden tenure of open borders. For example, the pace of “gotaways” has plunged by a stunning 95% under Trump, relative to Biden. Customs and Border Protection counts gotaways as sightings of migrants, by electronics or human agents, who were not apprehended but crossed our border illegally.
Now, a stunning 65% of Americans give Trump the credit for that new operational control over our border. Among independent voters, 63% give Trump the credit, and only 22% disagree.
In a country that is deeply politically divided, such supermajority numbers stand out. On this foundational issue of the America First agenda, we on the populist Right occupy the political, ethical, and legal high ground. Even Americans who hold ardently pro-immigrant views want the process to work in a measured, lawful, and clear manner. (RELATED: ‘These Lawless Riots Only Strengthen Our Resolve,’ Trump Says As He Orders Action To Liberate Los Angeles)
We also know that legal immigrants themselves have moved massively to the political right. As Harry Enten of CNN pointed out “ no group of voters moved more to the right, from 2020 to 2024, than immigrant voters.” By most valid post-2024 election measures, Trump at least tied Biden among immigrant voters, after losing that voting bloc by -22% in 2020, a truly astounding shift among the millions of legal new Americans who came here the correct way.
New Americans believe in America First. So, it is not surprising, then, that Trump’s mass deportations earn overwhelming approval from the people. On this broad question, Trump prevails by a +28% margin, with 60% overall in favor and only 32% opposed. Among seniors, approval is even more pronounced, with a huge 41% “strongly” supporting mass deportations, and 65% of older Americans overall favorable.
Among Catholics, a pivotal voting bloc who swung the national popular vote to Trump, the faithful support Trump’s mass deportations by a wide +35% margin, 64-29%. That supermajority is notable because the pro-chaos corporate media loves to elevate a small group of Catholic leaders who regularly parrot the Biden-Harris-Mayorkas themes, favoring porous borders.
So, across lines of race, ethnicity, age, geography, and religion, Americans massively rally to the America First vision of a country of rules and safety, a land that only welcomes new Americans through a rigorous, lawful process. Moreover, Americans reject lawlessness generally and clearly have the backs of police and Trump when they stand in the breach and demand public order.
For the president and his team, these numbers should steel their resolve. Doing the right thing, exerting strong leadership in this agenda – these actions represent both good policy and winning politics.
It’s our country, and we reclaim our sovereignty and reclaim our streets, at long last.
Steve Cortes is president of the League of American Workers, a populist right pro-laborer advocacy group, and senior political advisor to Catholic Vote. He is a former senior advisor to President Trump and JD Vance, plus a former commentator for Fox News and CNN.
Original article link: Daily Caller
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1. Iran Held Direct Talks With U.S. Amid Intensifying Conflict With Israel, Diplomats Say - Reuters
U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi have spoken by phone several times since Israel began its strikes on Iran last week, in a bid to find a diplomatic end to the crisis, three diplomats told Reuters.
According to the diplomats, who asked not to be identified, Araghchi said Tehran would not return to negotiations unless Israel stopped the attacks, which began on June 13. They said the talks included a brief discussion of a U.S. proposal given to Iran at the end of May that aims to create a regional consortium that would enrich uranium outside of Iran, an offer Tehran has so far rejected.
2. Strikes On Hospital In Israel, Iran’s Heavy Water Reactor - TIPP Insights
Iranian missiles made a direct hit on a hospital in southern Israel and residential buildings near Tel Aviv, while Israeli airstrikes targeted the Arak heavy water reactor and the Natanz nuclear facility.
Miraculously, there are no reports of casualties in the missile strike on Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheva. The hospital is adjacent to a military site, which Iran claims was the intended target. Heavy water serves as a coolant in reactors but is also used in the production of plutonium, which is suitable for nuclear bombs.
3. How U.S. Could Destroy Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Site - TIPP Insights
Striking Fordow is central to crippling Iran’s nuclear weapons capability, but only the U.S. has both the bomb powerful enough to penetrate its most fortified site and the bomber that can deliver it.
President Donald Trump has approved plans to attack Iran but has not made a final decision on whether to carry out a strike, the BBC’s U.S. partner CBS reports.
4. Trump Will Decide On U.S. Involvement In Israel-Iran Conflict Within Two Weeks, White House Says - BBC
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt says President Trump has given the timeframe as he believes there is a "substantial chance of negotiations" with Iran "in the near future."
Earlier, Iran's deputy foreign minister told the BBC it would cause "hell" in the region if the U.S. were to get involved, adding: "This is not America's war."
5. Trump Denies WSJ Claim He Approved Iran Attack Plans - TIPP Insights
President Donald Trump on Thursday denied a Wall Street Journal report claiming he approved plans to attack Iran but was waiting to see if Tehran halted its nuclear program before giving the final order.
“The Wall Street Journal has no idea what my thoughts are concerning Iran!” Trump wrote on Truth Social. The report, published Wednesday, cited senior aides who said Trump made the decision Tuesday evening.
6. Strike On Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Plant Could Cause ‘Chernobyl-Style Catastrophe’: Russia - Reuters
The head of Russia’s nuclear energy corporation warned that an Israeli attack on Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant could lead to a “Chernobyl-style catastrophe.”
An Israeli military spokesperson said Israel had struck the site, but an Israeli military official later called this statement “a mistake” and said he could neither confirm nor deny that the Bushehr site on the coast of the Gulf had been hit. Bushehr is Iran’s only operating nuclear power plant and was built by Russia.
7. Russia Warns U.S. Against ‘Military Intervention’ In Iran-Israel War - AFP
“We would like to particularly warn Washington against military intervention in the situation,” the Russian foreign ministry’s spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters.
President Trump had rejected Russia’s offer to broker peace, saying he told Putin to resolve the Ukraine conflict first. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that it was not up to Trump to reject Putin’s offer. “These services can be accepted by countries that are currently directly involved in the conflict,” he said.
8. Putin Says Russia Ready For Peace Talks After June 22 - TIPP Insights
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow wants to end the war in Ukraine “as soon as possible,” preferably through peaceful means, and is open to new negotiations, provided Kyiv and its allies are willing to engage.
Speaking at a roundtable with international journalists, Putin reiterated Russia’s readiness for talks with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. Putin said he informed Trump on June 14 that Russia would resume peace talks after June 22, following prisoner exchanges.
9. Taiwan: U.S. To Deliver 10 New F-16s, Source Says
The U.S. is expected to fly 10 Lockheed Martin F-16C/D Block 70/72 jets to Taiwan over the coming months to fulfill a long-awaited order of 66 aircraft, a Taiwanese defense official said.
The official said the initial tranche of the nation’s F-16s are rolling off assembly lines in the U.S. and would be flown under their own power to Taiwan by way of Hawaii and Guam.
10. Trump Approves 3rd Deadline Extension For Sale Of TikTok - UPI
President Donald Trump extended a deadline for Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell TikTok. The deadline for that to happen was supposed to be Thursday.
It's the third extension Trump has granted. Under federal law signed by former President Joe Biden in 2024, ByteDance must divest TikTok or see the app banned from the United States. The Supreme Court upheld the law in January.
11. New Zealand Pauses Cook Islands Aid Over China Deals - D.W.
China has been wooing Pacific Island countries with strategic partnership agreements. New Zealand has said it will pause funding to the Cook Islands until it can take a closer look at these deals.
The funding pause amounts to a $11 million development assistance payment for the next financial year, according to government figures. New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, who is visiting China for the first time this week, said the Cook Islands was not transparent about the scope of its strategic partnership with Beijing.
12. Satellite Images Show Iran Racing To Get Its Oil Out - Bloomberg
Oil is gushing out of the nation’s ports and onto ocean tankers, ensuring revenues will continue—at least for a while—if shipments are disrupted.
Despite the surge, storage tanks at the nation’s critical export terminal at Kharg Island are brimming with crude. The inference, then, is that Iran is sending as much as possible to the global market while it can.
13. Trump Rages At Fed Chair Over Rates: ‘Hundreds Of Billions Wasted’ - TIPP Insights
President Donald Trump launched another scathing attack on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Truth Social, blaming him for costing the U.S. “hundreds of billions of dollars” by not cutting interest rates.
“‘Too Late’ Jerome Powell is… one of the dumbest, and most destructive, people in Government,” Trump wrote, accusing the Fed of inaction while Europe has already made 10 rate cuts. He argued U.S. rates should be 2.5 percentage points lower, which would save billions on federal debt rolled over under President Biden.
14. North Korea Launches Multiple Rockets, South Korea Says - UPI
North Korea fired around 10 rounds from multiple-launcher rocket systems, Seoul's military said, one day after South Korea held joint air drills with the United States and Japan.
News agency Yonhap reported that the weapons appeared to be fired from 240mm multiple rocket launchers in the direction of the Yellow Sea. Last year, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the test-firing of an updated 240mm system with new guidance and maneuverability capabilities – a demonstration that South Korean officials speculated was made in anticipation of sales to Russia.
15. DR Congo And Rwanda Set To Sign U.S.-Brokered Peace Agreement - D.W.
In a joint statement with the U.S. State Department, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda said they are set to sign a peace agreement on June 27.
The draft peace deal aims to end fighting in eastern Congo, where Rwandan-backed M23 rebels made significant advances at the beginning of the year, capturing the strategic city of Goma and the town of Bukavu. It is not clear if the Congo River Alliance — a coalition of rebel groups that includes the M23 — will stick to it.
16. 'Crunch Time' For Climate Action, Scientists Warn - D.W.
More than 60 top UN scientists have warned that the world is on course to crash through a dangerous warming threshold, with key climate indicators shifting at an alarming rate.
Bill Hare, CEO of think tank Climate Analytics, said it was "inevitable" that the world would breach the 1.5-degree Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) limit in around five years "unless emissions are reduced quickly." Unless action is taken now, Hare added, it would not be long before the world also "bust through 2 degrees."
17. Coffee May Help You Live Longer, But Skip The Extra Sugar - HealthDay News
A research, published in The Journal of Nutrition, found that black coffee or coffee with just a little sugar and saturated fat was tied to a lower risk of premature death.
But when people drank coffee with lots of sweeteners or cream, the health benefits disappeared. Drinking at least one cup of caffeinated coffee per day was linked to a 16% lower risk of premature death from any cause. In the study, low sugar was defined as about one-half teaspoon per 8-ounce cup. Low fat, meanwhile, was defined as about 1 gram per cup - equal to 5 tablespoons of 2% milk or 1 tablespoon of light cream.
