Poll Suggests Support for Shift from Immigration Enforcement to Progressive Policies

A recent poll by Hart Research Associates on behalf of the Center for American Progress Action Fund finds that Americans are rejecting the divisive, anti-immigrant actions of the Trump administration during the COVID-19 pandemic, and broadly support a range of progressive policies around immigration and COVID-19 relief. To the contrary, the American people have moved significantly toward recognizing the contributions and common struggles of everybody in this country in recent months.

A Bloomberg opinion article by Francis Wilkinson interpreting the survey says, “The president and his advisers were betting that “concern about the spread of coronavirus would create a more fertile environment for their anti-immigrant policies … But the pandemic, he said, has not led to “anti-immigrant hysteria.”

MHC