A new Pew Research Center report shows that a majority of Latinos now disapprove of President Donald Trump and his handling of the economy and immigration, marking a significant shift since the 2024 election. Pew found that 70% of Latino respondents disapprove of Trump’s overall job performance, while 65% disapprove of his immigration approach. Another 61% say his economic policies have made conditions worse.
Trump received 48% of the Latino vote in 2024, a sharp increase from 2016. Many Latino voters at the time, especially men, credited his economic pitch and suggested they did not take his deportation threats literally. Surveys conducted that year found more than 40% supported his proposal for a border wall, and two-thirds said they did not feel personally targeted by his immigration rhetoric.
Support has fallen as the administration has imposed broad tariffs, cut safety-net programs, and launched aggressive immigration raids. High-profile Latino supporters have since criticized mass arrests, and election results in New Jersey and Virginia indicate Democrats regained ground with Latino voters in 2025.
The decline is not uniform across party lines. According to Pew, nearly all Latinos who voted for Kamala Harris in 2024 disapprove of Trump, while 81% of Trump voters still approve of his presidency, though this is down from 93% earlier in his term.
Concerns about deportation have intensified. Pew found that 52% of Latinos worry that they or someone close to them could be deported, up from 42% in March. Nearly 60% reported witnessing or hearing about raids in their communities over the past six months.
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