President Donald Trump has matched his highest-ever approval ratings in one of the bluest states in the nation--New York--and has a higher approval rating than Governor Kathy Hochul (D) in the same poll.
The Siena College survey was released on Monday and showed Trump with a 41% approval rating, while Hochul's was 39%.
Trump's approval hasn't been so high since the month before he took office in 2016.
A big part of the upward swing for Trump is his crackdown on illegal immigrants who have committed crimes--79% of poll respondents approved of deporting criminal illegal immigrants.
A majority of 54% believe that Trump will do an "excellent" or "good" job securing the U.S. border.
“President Trump has not been popular in his former home state for more than a decade. And while that is still true, Trump now has his best favorability rating, 41-56%, since the month before he took office the first time, December 2016, when his favorability rating was 41-53%,” Sienna pollster Steven Greenberg said of the results.
Predictably, Republicans view Trump favorably 83% to 13%, while Democrats view him unfavorably 81% to 17%. With independents, Trump is slightly up 48% to 46%.
Trump is already making good on his promises to deport illegal immigrants who have committed crimes and has conducted ICE raids in New York City and other major cities.
Anderson Zambrano-Pacheco, 25, an alleged ringleader of the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua, was arrested in the Bronx last week.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made his first visit to the southern border on Monday, declaring a "new era of determination" under Trump.
"Because of President Donald Trump, this is a new era at the southern border, a new era of determination, a new era of cooperation. And at the Defense Department, we are proud to be a part of it," he told reporters after touring the border.
Trump has used threats of tariffs to get countries like Mexico, Canada, and Columbia to cooperate with his border crackdown.
Mexico and Canada have both said they will station thousands of troops at the border to stop the flow of fentanyl and human trafficking there.
The U.S. military is also deploying more troops there. "We are going to get control of this border," Hegseth promised.
