New polling from the University of Houston and Texas Southern University shows majority support for President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
More than half of registered voters, 51%, approve of the policies and enforcement actions undertaken by the Trump administration, according to a survey by the University of Houston’s Hobby School of Public Affairs and the Executive Master of Public Administration program in the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University. Almost as many, 49%, disapprove.
Several enforcement actions drew even higher approval, with almost six in 10, or 58%, in support of sending the U.S. military to the border, and 54% backing the use of state and local law enforcement to help with immigration detention.
A majority of Texans, 58%, agree undocumented residents should not be allowed to pay in-state tuition at public colleges and universities. That had been state law since 2001 but ended in June when the Trump administration sued, arguing the practice is unconstitutional, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton concurred with the Trump administration.