Trump is doing a great job making people like immigrants more

The 15 percent who favor mass deportation is in contrast to the 79 percent who instead favor a pathway to citizenship with background checks. Previous Post-ABC polls asked a different question — whether people would support or oppose an effort to deport all illegal immigrants (with no alternative named). Back in March, 36 percent supported this approach.

Previous Gallup polling showed about 20 percent generally favored deporting all illegal immigrants. But that poll offered a third, middle-ground option of allowing illegal immigrants to remain in the United States and work for a limited time. That might have depressed support — at least somewhat — for mass deportation.