Views on Immigration | National Poll - April 17, 2025

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• Highlights

New National UMass Amherst Poll Finds Americans ‘Of Two Minds’ on Immigration

The new poll finds majority support for birthright citizenship and a ‘path to citizenship’ for undocumented immigrants without criminal records, but also sees substantial support for the deportation of undocumented immigrants with criminal records and using the military to enforce immigration law

• Press Release

The full press release can be downloaded here and found at the UMass Amherst Office of News & Media Relations.

• Poll Contact

Tatishe Nteta (nteta@umass.edu)

• Methods

Field Dates: April 4-9, 2025    |    Sample: 1,000 Respondents    |    Margin of Error: 3.7%

YouGov interviewed 1081 respondents who were then matched down to a sample of 1000 to produce the final dataset. The respondents were matched to a sampling frame on gender, age, race, and education. The sampling frame is a politically representative "modeled frame" of US adults, based upon the American Community Survey (ACS) public use microdata file, public voter file records, the 2020 Current Population Survey (CPS) Voting and Registration supplements, the 2020 National Election Pool (NEP) exit poll, and the 2020 CES surveys, including demographics and 2020 presidential vote.

The matched cases were weighted to the sampling frame using propensity scores. The matched cases and the frame were combined, and a logistic regression was estimated for inclusion in the frame. The propensity score function included age, gender, race/ethnicity, years of education, and region. The propensity scores were grouped into deciles of the estimated propensity score in the frame and post-stratified according to these deciles.

The weights were then post-stratified on 2020 & 2024 presidential vote choice as well as a four- way stratification of gender, age (4-categories), race (4-categories), and education (4-categories), to produce the final weight.