Polls released Sunday showed falling support among Americans for Donald Trump鈥檚 hard-line measures against illegal immigration, as the Republican president celebrated six months back in power.
Trump won last year鈥檚 election in part with promises to launch a historic deportation drive, riling up his base with exaggerated claims of mass violence committed by undocumented migrants, whom he referred to as 鈥榮avages鈥� and 鈥榓nimals.鈥�
Polls from both CNN and CBS show that Trump has lost majority support for his deportation approach.
Fifty five per cent of respondents feel the raids 鈥� frequently seen online in viral videos of masked, unidentified agents seizing people off the street 鈥� have gone too far, CNN said.
This was up 10 per cent from a similar poll in February, shortly after Trump took office.
A majority 鈥� 57 per cent 鈥� said they oppose plans for construction of mass detention facilities, with only 26 per cent supporting the idea, CNN said.
A CBS News poll found that 56 per cent of Americans believe Trump鈥檚 administration is targeting migrants who do not represent a threat to public safety, up from 47 per cent last month.
According to the poll, only 49 per cent of Americans approve of Trump鈥檚 immigration policies, down from 54 per cent last month and 59 per cent in February.
Support remains nearly universal among Republicans, however, with 91 per cent in favour of the deportations.
Opposition among independents is nonetheless at 59 per cent and among Democrats at 86 per cent.
Trump marked the six-month mark of his second presidency by heading out to his golf club in Virginia, near Washington, and posting on social media that the period was 鈥榖eing hailed as one of the most consequential periods of any President.鈥�
鈥楽ix months is not a long time to have totally revived a major Country,鈥� he wrote on Truth Social.
鈥極ne year ago our Country was DEAD, with almost no hope of revival,鈥� he said, adding that now the United States was the 鈥榤ost respected Country anywhere in the World.鈥�
In keeping with other surveys, the CBS News poll found Trump鈥檚 overall approval rating is underwater. Currently only 42 per cent of Americans approve of his job, compared to 53 per cent in February.