{"id":121215,"date":"2026-02-03T13:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T13:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/121215\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T13:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T13:12:07","slug":"over-40-of-new-yorkers-support-deporting-illegal-immigrants-new-siena-poll-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/121215\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 40% of New Yorkers support deporting illegal immigrants, new Siena poll reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALBANY \u2013 More than 40% of New Yorkers support deporting people who are in the United States illegally \u2013 but overwhelmingly are souring on the Trump administration\u2019s tactics and ICE operations in Minneapolis, a new poll shows.<\/p>\n

A massive 61% of respondents told Siena University pollsters they disagreed with how ICE was operating amid the surge in Minneapolis \u2013 including 81% of Democrats and 54% of Independents \u2013 while 61% of Republicans supported the immigration agency\u2019s tactics.<\/p>\n

Suburban voters in Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Orange and Putnam Counties have also largely soured on the immigration enforcement agency\u2019s operation, with 61% opposed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

New Yorkers are souring on Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u2019s tactics, a new Siena Poll finds. AP<\/p>\n

However, 43% of voters supported deporting migrants who are in the UUS illegally, versus 35% against deportations and 20% \u201cin the middle,\u201d roughly the same as when Siena asked the question in May<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cRepublicans view ICE favorably, support the way they are working and nearly three-quarters want additional ICE agents sent to New York City. Democrats and independents say exactly the opposite: unfavorable to ICE, don\u2019t like the way they work, and don\u2019t want more of them in the Big Apple,\u201d Siena Poll Spokesperson Steve Greenberg wrote in a statement.<\/p>\n

A massive 80% of Siena\u2019s respondents said they support deporting migrants with a criminal background in a poll about a year ago<\/a>, including 71% of Latinos.<\/p>\n

The poll, conducted last week, also shows the highest ever favorability for Gov. Kathy Hochul \u2014 at 49%. With 40% of respondents rating her unfavorably in the latest poll, she has a net favorability rating of +9%.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the first time she\u2019s posted back-to-back months of above-water net favorability ratings in Siena\u2019s poll since December 2022 and January 2023<\/a> \u2013 just off her first election since taking over as governor following the resignation of Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2021.<\/p>\n

Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s favorability ticked up to 49% in January\u2019s Siena University poll, the highest ever. Robert Miller for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile a 49-40% favorability rating is not generally seen as something to gloat about, for Hochul it is a net seven point gain from December, but more noteworthy is the fact that it is the first time in four and a half years as governor that Hochul has had 49% of voters view her favorably in a Siena poll,\u201d Greenberg said.<\/p>\n

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman is still largely unknown statewide, with 60% of those surveyed saying they don\u2019t know the likely GOP challenger to Hochul.<\/p>\n

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman trails Hochul in Siena\u2019s head-to-head matchup. Dennis A. Clark<\/p>\n

Blakeman gets walloped by the incumbent Democrat 54% to 28% in a head-to-head matchup. The Long Island pol also lags 14% behind Hochul \u2013\u00a050% to 36% \u2013 in the suburbs, according to the survey.<\/p>\n

A majority of voters, 51%, did, however, tell Siena they would rather someone other than Hochul be governor, with only 42% saying they\u2019d vote to re-elect the New York leader.<\/p>\n

\u201cTen months from election day, Blakeman \u2013 largely unknown to three in five New York voters \u2013 has his work cut out for him. Hochul\u2019s 79-8% lead among Democrats is significantly better than Blakeman\u2019s 69-15% lead with Republicans, and she leads 41-34% with independents, as well as in every region of the state,\u201d Greenberg said.<\/p>\n

Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado, who is waging a primary challenge against Hochul to the left, is also unknown to 61% of those surveyed. As such, he gets obliterated in a head-to-head matchup with Hochul, 64% to 11%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY \u2013 More than 40% of New Yorkers support deporting people who are in the United States illegally…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4241,1626,426,57,9,24,55,54,56,13895,32382,58],"class_list":["post-121215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-albany","tag-bruce-blakeman","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-ny-governor-election-2026","tag-siena-college","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}