Voters appear to hold someone inconsistent positions on deporting illegal aliens and sanctuary policies. While voters are equally divided on "sanctuary" states stopping state and local officials from cooperating with federal immigration authorities, by a ten...
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Likely Voters Overwhelmingly Support Strong Penalties Strong Penalties Against U.S. Employers who Knowingly Higher Illegal Aliens, Want E-Verify, and that Illegals Reduce the Pay of Americans. Blacks and Hispanics think Illegals hurt American workers, but Democrats don’t.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey conducted on June 7-9, 2026 shows that 54% of likely voters want the federal government to impose strong penalties on U.S. employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants. Twenty-six percent disagree,...
Most General Election Voters Slightly Prefer Arresting Repeat Criminals or Enforcing Current Gun Control Laws Over Enacting More Gun Control Laws
The CPRC commissioned McLaughlin & Associates to survey 1,000 general election voters on May 19th, 2026 on whether they support more gun control or emphasizing repeat criminals (cross tabs available here). Despite frequent claims that Americans strongly...
UPDATED: New Survey on the Rate that People Carry Concealed Handguns: Percent of Americans Carrying Increased from 24.3% in December 2024 to 29.8% in May 2026
The CPRC hired McLaughlin & Associates to survey 1,000 general election voters on May 19th, 2026 (cross tabs available here), regarding whether likely voters carry concealed handguns. In the survey, 13.2% carry all/most of the time, with another 16.6%...
Younger and more liberal Americans are much more likely to think political violence can be justified. Very liberal Americans are 8.3 times more likely than very conservatives to say it. 18 to 29 year olds are 6.67 times more likely than those 65+.
A September 2025 survey by YouGov show that while 11 percent of Americans adults think that violence by citizens to achieve political goals can be justified, the results vary dramatically by age and political ideology. Twenty-five percent of those who classified...
New Rasmussen Reports Survey: 70% of Republicans Want All Illegal Aliens Deported, 65% of Democrats and 53% of Other Voter Oppose It.
Screenshot A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey of 1,007 likely voters finds that 49% opposed deporting all illegal aliens while 45% support it. Lower income and less educated people support deporting all illegals, but the highest income and...
Americans are very concerned about violent crime, think that it is getting worse, don’t think deporting illegal alien criminals helps, and trust Republicans more than Democrats to reduce crime
Because Democrats are reluctant to catch and punish criminals, it is no surprise that a new Rasmussen Reports survey finds Americans trust Republicans more on crime—though the 5-percentage-point gap remains modest. Even as murder rates fell last year to historic...
Rasmussen Survey: 74% Favor Requiring Voter ID, with overwhelming support across all races, all political affiliations, all ages, all incomes, and all education levels
All groups of voters, even Democrats by a 65% to 23% margin and liberals by a 54% to 33% margin, support requiring government issued photo IDs from people to vote. Overall voters support requiring photo IDs by a 74% to 16% margin -- a 4.63 times difference. Despite...
Most Likely Voters Approve of Trump Finding and Deporting Illegal Aliens and Think Trump Can Use the National Guard to Defend ICE Offices
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey of 1,184 likely voters on October 7th to 9th finds that 53% of Likely U.S. voters support Trump finding and deporting illegal aliens, including 39% who Strongly Support the president’s policy. Forty-three...
Survey Shows that a Large Percentage of People are Influenced to Buy a Gun Because of Mass Shootings
A law firm in Brier, Washington, conducted with 400 Americans across the United States using Pollfish. The sample is small, but it still provides some indication that about half the people are concerned enough about the danger from these types of attacks to be...
Who strongly opposes President Trump sending National Guard troops to cities to fight violent crime?: Whites, Democrats, liberals, those making over $200,000 per year, and those who went to graduate school.
President Trump's federalization of D.C.'s law enforcement has generated much opposition on the left. Indeed, many have called Trump's move as racist. A new Rasmussen Reports poll of likely voters provides some interesting insights on who is actually opposed. Those...
Likely Voters by a 3.5 to 1 Rate Say Requiring Voter Photo IDs are a Reasonable Measure to Protect the Integrity of Elections, Most Voters Don’t Think IDs Discriminate Against Some Voters (by 1.5 to 1 Ratio)
By more than a 3.5-to-1 margin, voters continue to favor Voter Photo IDs to help ensure election integrity. The latest Rasmussen Reports national survey of Likely U.S. Voters finds that 73% believe that photo ID to vote is a reasonable requirement to protect the...












