We went into this administration with a seemingly durable baseline assumption that whatever his unpopularity in other areas President Trump had durable if not overwhelming support for his hardline immigration policies. But something started to show up in polls in the late Spring or early Summer. While his numbers on “immigration” were still reasonably robust it was a dramatically different picture when pollster’s asked about “deportation” or ICE raids. Not surprisingly, “immigration” is a very big word and covers a vast range of policy territory. Looked at from a different vantage point, Trump retained a bare majority of public support on “border security” but his “deportation” policy had the support of barely one-third of the population.