A majority of voters in Maryland, a deep blue state, support Donald Trump’s deportation policies, according to a new poll—another sign of the broad partisan support for fundamental immigration reform in the US.
The polling, conducted by a Maryland-based company, shows that just over three-quarters of all respondents, 76%, support requiring local police departments and state officials in Maryland to work with ICE and its deputies to take into custody illegal immigrants and deport them.
Although the proportion of Republicans who supported the measures—96%—was more than the proportion of Democrats, the figure for Democrats was still just shy of two-thirds, at 65%. Seventy-seven percent of independents supported the measures.
The results of the poll are surprising, given that Trump lost Maryland by 29 points in November’s election.
Crime has surged in recent years in Maryland. Last year, there was an overall rise in rapes, robberies and assaults, within only 18 of the state’s 69 jurisdictions seeing a fall in crime.
The poll of 811 registered voters was taken from December 27 to January 4.