Immigration is a higher priority for Americans than it was a year ago, an AP-NORC poll shows

More Americans say immigration should be a top focus for the U.S. government in 2025, as the country heads toward a new Republican administration in which President-elect Donald Trump has promised the mass deportations of migrants and an end to birthright citizenship. A December poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds about half of U.S. adults named immigration and border topics in an open-ended question that asked respondents to share up to five issues they want the government to work on this year. That’s up from about one-third who mentioned the topic in an AP-NORC poll the previous year. About three-quarters want the government to focus on addressing broad economic concerns.