--- title: Most Americans Don't Think Immigration Ban Makes Them Safer description: Despite President Trump's claims, most Americans don't think the ban makes them safer canonical: https://time.com/4656280/donald-trump-immigration-ban-poll/ author: Zamira Rahim article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-01T13:07:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T03:04:01.409Z article:section: Politics og:title: Most Americans Don't Think Immigration Ban Makes Them Safer og:description: Despite President Trump's claims most Americans don't think they're safer og:url: https://time.com/4656280/donald-trump-immigration-ban-poll/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt742198f8ba35c2bc/6988b8440a4a2244da9ccc93/gettyimages-632596958.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: President Trump Signs Executive Order In The Oval Office og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Most Americans Don't Think Immigration Ban Makes Them Safer twitter:description: Despite President Trump's claims most Americans don't think they're safer twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt742198f8ba35c2bc/6988b8440a4a2244da9ccc93/gettyimages-632596958.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Most Americans Don’t Think President Trump’s Immigration Ban Will Make Them Safer by [Zamira Rahim](https://time.com/author/zamira-rahim/) ## Zamira Rahim Feb 1, 2017 1:07 PM UTC  US President Donald Trump speaks after signing one of five executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017. US President Donald Trump speaks after signing one of five executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017.Shawn Thew—Pool—Bloomberg— Getty Images by [Zamira Rahim](https://time.com/author/zamira-rahim/) ## Zamira Rahim Feb 1, 2017 1:07 PM UTC [Less than one-third of Americans](http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/01/only-a-third-of-americans-think-trumps-travel-ban-will-make-them-safer.html) believe that President Donald Trump’s executive order [restricting immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries](http://time.com/4652552/president-trump-is-suspending-a-refugee-program-and-banning-visas-from-7-countries/?iid=sr-link3) will make them “more safe,” according to a new poll. The Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll found that around 26% of respondents said the ban made them feel “less safe” while 33% said that it would not make any difference to their safety, CNBC reports. Thirty-one percent said that they did feel safer because of the measures, [which have triggered numerous national protests](http://time.com/4652918/donald-trump-immigration-ban-muslim-protests/?iid=sr-link1). The poll also found that approximately one in two Americans supported the restrictions, which include barring all refugees from U.S. entry for 120 days. President Trump had said when introducing the measures that they would help protect the U.S. from terrorism. \[[CNBC](http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/01/only-a-third-of-americans-think-trumps-travel-ban-will-make-them-safer.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4656280/donald-trump-immigration-ban-poll/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4656280/donald-trump-immigration-ban-poll/"},"headline":"Most Americans Don’t Think President Trump’s Immigration Ban Will Make Them Safer","datePublished":"2017-02-01T13:07:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T03:04:01.409Z","description":"Despite President Trump's claims, most Americans don't think the immigration ban makes them safer","url":"https://time.com/4656280/donald-trump-immigration-ban-poll/","keywords":["Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt742198f8ba35c2bc/6988b8440a4a2244da9ccc93/gettyimages-632596958.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Zamira Rahim","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/zamira-rahim/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt742198f8ba35c2bc/6988b8440a4a2244da9ccc93/gettyimages-632596958.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Trump Signs Executive Order In The Oval Office","caption":"President Trump Signs Executive Order In The Oval Office","creditText":"Shawn Thew—Pool—Bloomberg— Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4656280/donald-trump-immigration-ban-poll/","name":"Most Americans Don’t Think President Trump’s Immigration Ban Will Make Them Safer"}}]}] ```