Question 1
Vantage Data House
Americans' Views on ICE
Overview
Key Findings
High-level takeaways from modeled estimates
Views on ICE were sharply polarized: Republicans exceeded Democrats by 34.5 pp on support for strict enforcement (even if it increases deportations/detentions) and by 42.3 pp on confidence in fair, thorough investigations after fatal shootings involving ICE agents.
Republicans showed strong support for enforcement and high institutional confidence. Most Republicans endorsed strict enforcement even if it increases detentions and deportations, and they reported high confidence in the fairness of investigations into fatal shootings involving ICE agents.
Boomers drove Republican support for strict enforcement: they were about 17.6 pp more supportive than younger Republican cohorts (Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X).
Overall, White respondents showed higher support for strict enforcement than Black respondents (17 pp), but within-party racial gaps were small. Among Republicans, the Black–White gap was about 5 pp, and it was smaller among Democrats and Independents.
Hispanics were 8.4 pp less supportive of strict immigration enforcement than Whites overall, but within the Republican Party the gap shrank to 3.9 pp.
Differences by gender, education, rural–urban residence, income, and religion were small.
Survey Questions
Topline Results
Two ICE questions with full response distributions
Demographics
Demographic Breakdown
Explore each question by demographic group
Question 2
ICE investigations
Interactive Explorer
Crosstabs Explorer
Enforcement first, investigations second
Question 1
ICE enforcement
Cross-tabulated estimates by two demographic variables
Question 2
ICE investigations
Cross-tabulated estimates by two demographic variables
Values are weighted poststratified estimates (percent).
Geographic
State Ranking
All 51 states ranked with top and bottom tiers highlighted