Despite years of media narratives claiming President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda clashes with Catholic values, a new poll tells a very different story: most Catholic voters support Trump’s mass deportation of illegal aliens.

A survey conducted for EWTN News in partnership with RealClear Opinion Research found that Catholic voters are firmly aligned with the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. The poll, conducted between November 9 and 11 among 1,000 Catholic respondents, revealed that 54% support the detention and deportation of unauthorized immigrants on a broad scale, while just 30% oppose it. Another 17% said they neither support nor oppose the policy.

In other words, a clear majority of Catholics side with border enforcement — not open borders.

The Catholic News Agency, reporting on the poll, noted that Church teaching is frequently mischaracterized by the left. While the Catechism of the Catholic Church does call on prosperous nations to welcome foreigners to the extent they are able, it also places obligations on immigrants themselves — including respecting the host nation’s laws, culture, and civic responsibilities.

More importantly, the Catechism explicitly affirms that governments have the right to regulate immigration:

“Political authorities, for the sake of the common good for which they are responsible, may make the exercise of the right to immigrate subject to various juridical conditions.”

That principle has been echoed by U.S. Catholic bishops, who have acknowledged that nations possess both a legal right and moral duty to curb illegal migration when necessary for the common good.

Catholic voters appear to understand that balance far better than progressive activists who weaponize religion to justify lawlessness.

Exit polls from the 2024 election reinforce the trend. After defeating Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, President Trump reportedly won the Catholic vote by 15 points, according to Breitbart News — a decisive margin that helped fuel his return to the White House.

One Catholic voter summed up the sentiment bluntly to EWTN News:

“We desperately need immigration reform, we desperately need to control our borders.”

That urgency stands in stark contrast to the Biden administration, whose own advisers reportedly warned in 2020 that its immigration agenda would lead to “chaos.” Biden ignored them — and Americans paid the price, with images of overwhelmed border towns, human trafficking, and cartel activity becoming daily news.

Those failures became, as even the New York Times conceded, “potent political fuel” for Trump’s comeback.

Since Trump returned to office in January, more than 2.5 million illegal immigrants have reportedly left the United States, signaling that enforcement — not empty rhetoric — actually works.

The takeaway is simple: Catholics are not buying the left’s moral grandstanding. They support compassion, yes — but not at the expense of law, safety, and national sovereignty. And on immigration, they’re firmly in President Trump’s corner.