Half of Americans say President Trump's mass deportation campaign is too aggressive, according to a new poll released Wednesday, as Republicans look to regain voters' confidence on immigration less than 90 days away from the midterm election.

Nearly a quarter of voters who backed Trump in the 2024 presidential election also said his immigration enforcement approach is too aggressive, according to the Politico poll, which was conducted with Public First. It found that 50 percent of Americans overall said the administration's immigration agenda has gone too far.Β 

While the administration has made some changes to its enforcement strategy, the polling has remained largely unchanged since earlier surveys in January and April β€” amid the height of the immigration crackdown in Minnesota, where federal agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens.

"Voters really did want border security, but they did not want to see abuelita taken away because she's been here for 40 years but without documentation," Arizona-based GOP strategist Barrett Marson told Politico.

The divide was sharper among Trump's supporters. Thirty-one percent of Trump voters who did not identify with the MAGA movement said his immigration agenda was too aggressive, compared with 15 percent of self-identified MAGA voters.

Fifty-six percent of Americans said they had noticed at least some change in how the administration is carrying out deportations. But among those respondents, 44 percent said the changes made no difference on how much they trust the administration on immigration, while 30 percent said the changes made them less trusting.

Republicans have traditionally held an advantage with voters on border security and immigration. But the Trump administration faced a swirl of negative headlines and backlash earlier this year after the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in separate incidents in Minneapolis.

The White House subsequently made changes to its immigration approach, including sidelining then-Border Patrol official Greg Bovino and sending border czar Tom Homan to Minnesota to smooth things over.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin took over for ousted former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in March, and he has reserved some of the administration's more controversial policies, including plans to turn several warehouses across the country into immigration detention facilities.

The survey was conducted Aug. 8-12 by Public First with 2,004 respondents.

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