Despite breaking records for the lowest approval ratings for a new President, Donald Trump's immigration ban is still backed by a majority of Americans, according to recent polling.

The Republican president suffered the biggest defeat of his presidency yesterday as a court refused to reinstate his executive order banning refugees and restricting travel to the United States from seven Muslim-majority countries.

His decision to halt immigration has been widely criticised with protests across the world, legal challenges and condemnation from Barack Obama. The President sacked his interim Attorney General for failing to enforce his immigration ban, with the White House saying that she had "betrayed" the Justice Department.

But the most recent polling done on the policy shows that most Americans still back the policy.