More Americans support Trump’s birthright citizenship rollback than oppose it, new poll reveals
More Americans support Trump’s birthright citizenship rollback than oppose it, new poll reveals
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Controversial executive order issued by Donald Trump at his inauguration aims to end birthright citizenship for children of migrants. More Americans are in favor of President Donald Trump’s attempt to curb birthright citizenship than are against it, a new poll reveals, as presidential approval is improving post-inauguration.
Yet a new poll from Emerson College post-inauguration, carried out from 27 to 28 January, shows 45 per cent of Americans support Trump’s efforts to roll back birthright citizenship for children of undocumented migrants. By comparison, just 37 per cent oppose the change, while a substantially high 19 per cent are neutral or have no opinion.
The poll of 1,000 registered US voters has a margin of error of +/- 3 percentage points, and is weighted to represent a mix of party, gender, race, education, age, and region. Unsurprisingly there are trends among party lines; but some support comes from all ends of the political spectrum. A majority of Republicans, 69%, support ending birthright citizenship, compared to 25% of Democrats and 38% of independents.
Those in the South were the most likely to support removing birthright citizenship for children of undocumented migrants (51 per cent). Among all ethnicities, Latino respondents were the most in opposition to the proposed change (42 per cent); yet a comparatively high number also supported the change (39 per cent).
