AAPI Data<\/a>.<\/p>\nIn this poll, around 4 in 10 AAPI adults say deporting immigrants living in the U.S. illegally should be a low priority for the U.S. government, an increase from about one-third just after Trump took office. About one-third of AAPI adults now say these deportations should be a moderate priority, and only about 2 in 10 say they should be a high priority. <\/p>\n
Fran Peace, 75, of Oroville, California, still sees deporting immigrants here illegally as a high priority. But the Japanese American retiree disagrees with stopping people based on \u201cstereotypes\u201d like their looks or if they have an accent. She also is open to a citizenship path for those who’ve lived here for years and haven\u2019t committed a crime. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think you should just have to go back automatically, but the laws don\u2019t say that,” Peace said. \u201cIf you\u2019re illegal you go back. But I think there should be some concession made for the people that have been here a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Most AAPI adults, 73%, have a \u201csomewhat\u201d or \u201cvery\u201d unfavorable opinion of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE. <\/p>\n
AAPI Republicans have a much less negative view of the agency than AAPI adults overall, with only about one-third saying they view ICE negatively. But only about one-quarter of Republicans overall had an unfavorable opinion of ICE in a February AP-NORC survey. <\/p>\n
There’s also widespread opposition to several hardline immigration policies, with about 6 in 10 saying they oppose large-scale immigration enforcement operations in neighborhoods with high populations of immigrants, and about 7 in 10 against allowing immigration enforcement agents to cover their faces when arresting people.<\/p>\n
Prohibiting face coverings would be like body cameras, \u201chelping keep people accountable,\u201d Ugai said. <\/p>\n
The AAPI adult population is split on whether immigrants here illegally have a large impact on social welfare resources and crime. About 4 in 10 AAPI adults think immigrants in the U.S. illegally pose a \u201cmajor risk\u201d of burdening welfare and safety net programs. A similar share see this as \u201ca minor risk.\u201d Only about one-quarter see \u201cnot a risk at all.\u201d <\/p>\n
On the question of whether immigrants here illegally will commit crimes, about one-third of AAPI adults see this as a \u201cmajor risk,\u201d while about half think it’s a “minor risk.\u201d Only 15% say it’s \u201cnot a risk at all.”<\/p>\n
Peace credits Trump with driving down crime like drug trafficking because before his second term, the U.S. \u201cpractically had open borders.”<\/p>\n
But Daniel Kim, 65, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, thinks that immigrants pose little risk in terms of crime. <\/p>\n
A Democrat and Korean American, he previously volunteered at a church to assist refugees with food and donations. He stopped going to his own evangelical church over church leaders’ insistence on remaining apolitical. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe church leadership just could not make the connection or could not find it in their hearts to think (about) the issues involved with the treatment of foreigners in our country,” Kim said.<\/p>\n
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The poll of 1,197 U.S. adults who are Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders was conducted Feb. 2-9, 2026, using a sample drawn from NORC\u2019s probability-based Amplify AAPI Panel, designed to be representative of the Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 4.6 percentage points.<\/p>\n
This poll is part of an ongoing project exploring the views of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, which are usually not highlighted in other surveys because of small sample sizes and lack of linguistic representation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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