A new survey showed that President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration is sending a message.
A survey fromGallupindicated that as Trump pushes to deport illegal immigrants and ban potential terrorists, the number of people who want to come here has declined.
Gallup’s 2025 migration survey shows that 15 percent of respondents around the world who want to leave their country picked the U.S. as their destination of choice, which put the U.S. first among potential destinations.
For context, the figure was at 24 percent in 2009 during the Obama administration, and dipped to around 18 percent during Trump’s first term.
The 2025 results are from 144,000 people in 140 countries and include 2023 results from China, the last year the question was asked there.
Gallup asked respondents, “Ideally, if you had the opportunity, would you like to move permanently to another country, or would you prefer to continue living in this country?” Anyone who wanted to leave was then asked where they would ideally live.
The survey found that as Trump has slammed the door on illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central America, migrating to America has lost some of its luster in those regions.
In 2024, 33 percent of those surveyed from Latin America said they wanted to come to America. That fell to 28 percent in 2025.
In Mexico, 21 percent of those surveyed said they wanted to move to the U.S., dropping from Biden-era highs back to the level of the first Trump administration.
In Honduras, the will to migrate to the U.S. fell from 71 percent to 36 percent.
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