POLL: Americans Support Trump’s Sovereignty Agenda

On Borders and Trade, broad agreement…

New polling reveals that American citizens enthusiastically back the aggressive America First agenda of reestablishing US sovereignty, including both strong borders and balanced trade.

Specifically, this latest nationwide poll for my advocacy organization, the League of American Workers, finds that Americans support mass deportation by a strong +15% margin, 55-40% overall. Digging into the crosstabs of the survey, conducted by the prestigious pollster TIPP Insights last week, this issue is not as partisan as the open-borders media crowd might pretend.

For instance, Republicans report a +72% margin on the issue, which is not surprising since Donald Trump made it his signature campaign issue into last November. But, Independents are also on the pro-deportation side, by +8%.

When the element of a criminal background is added, the supermajority agreement on deportations soars higher. If the migrant has a criminal record, in their home country or here in our homeland, 78% of Americans support deportation and only 16% disagree. Nearly 2/3’s of Kamala Harris voters (64%) agree with this aggressive Trump policy. Notably, 68% of Hispanic citizens concur with getting the dangerous “bad hombres” out of our country.

President Trump and border “czar” Tom Homan have taken immediate, substantial action on this foundational campaign promise. In fact, total illegal border crossings for March reached the lowest level ever for that month. To put the plunge of trespassers into perspective, border crossings this March were lower, in total, than just the first two days of March, 2024, when Biden’s open borders madness reigned.

On border issues, Trump delivers, with gusto. In fact, this issue largely fades away from public notice, since this Administration acts so quickly and decisively to reestablish control over our homeland.

But another issue of American sovereignty now dominates headlines: international trade relations. Like the immigration issue, the Trump trade agenda insists that entry into America – whether people or products – must operate according to rules that benefit the citizens of our Republic.

Just as migrants around the globe understandably yearn to come to America, so too international merchants all clamor for access to the American consumer, the “crown jewel” market of the world.

On that aspect alone, the prime status of the US consumer market, America should rightly charge a premium for entry, just as any theater or sporting venue charges higher prices for access to the best seats. But even more importantly, to protect the prerogatives of American workers and industries, trade must be fair and reciprocal.

We can no longer economically surrender to other countries that use predatory trade tactics to abuse and malign American laborers.

For decades, the powerbrokers of America willingly submitted to a globalist agenda that lined their own pockets, at the expense of entire American industries and communities. This submission has been particularly galling in relation to China, a nation that does not exactly hide the CCP’s ill intentions toward the United States.

This new polling fully backs this view. For instance, by a huge +37% margin, Americans believe that China has abused our country in trade, 62-25%. Among seniors, that margin expands to +58%, with 74% of Americans over the age of 65 years old identifying China as a trade manipulator vs. the US.

Looking at trade more generally, Americans were asked about this statement: “for decades, powerful interests in the United States have allowed our country to be taken advantage of in trade by foreign nations.” By a better than 2/1 margin, Americans agreed with this observation, 60-29%. These results verify that Americans intuitively recognize that they have been abused by foreign countries – and by ruling class Americans of influence through a rotten system of globalist cronyism.

So, on both of these related topics – immigration and trade – President Trump’s America First agenda of sovereignty finds mass appeal among the sensible patriots of our land. Consequently, our country and our movement should ignore the loud protestations of the formerly-powerful globalists. Most especially, this polling should steel the resolve of the patriotic populist movement to defy the legacy corporate media platforms, which act as dutiful PR agents for the old order.

After decades of lawless immigration and abusive trade, building an America of strong borders and ordered imports is not an easy task – but it’s one that earns the appreciative support of the American people.

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.