[Business Insider] President Donald Trump has faced intense, sustained backlash to his immigration policies even after a partial reversal of course.But even as Trump's officials are shouted out of restaurants and called fascists to their faces, Trump's polling numbers have been steady ‐ even rising ‐ over the past several weeks.
A Gallup poll and the RealClearPolitics average of polls both put Trump around a 45% approval rating, with that number rising steadily throughout June. That's just one point lower than Barack Obama was at this point in his presidency.
Over the same period, Trump's border practices drove mainstream news anchors to tears and sparked round-the-clock coverage of family separations. Besides Trump's policy of separating families at the border, which he reversed amid the scrutiny, analysts say his overall immigration policy looks a lot like Obama's.