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Officials with the White House and the Trump campaign did not respond to an email seeking comment.

But Mr. Trump is aware of the politics and how poorly it may play out for him if young immigrants are facing deportation before the 2020 election, according to people close to the White House.

Even when he was ordering Jeff Sessions, the attorney general at the time, to find a solution to DACA, Mr. Trump was asking close aides how he could get out of the political jam he found himself in.

“Presumably, there will be discretion about how aggressively various laws are enforced,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster, “but it does create a political challenge because, consistently, 80 percent of Americans have supported allowing the DACA kids to stay.”

Geoff Garin, a Democratic pollster who has worked for the pro-immigration group FWD.us, said that ending DACA helped reinforce the negative feelings about Mr. Trump’s immigration policies.

“We know from polling that Americans overwhelmingly support DACA. They oppose Trump’s efforts to terminate DACA,” Mr. Garin said. “It reinforces all the other negatives that Trump has established.”

The program, which was announced by Mr. Obama in 2012, lets young people brought to the United States as children apply for a temporary status that lasts two years and can be renewed. It does not offer a pathway to citizenship, something that Mr. Trump’s most hard-line supporters are against.

A national survey by Mr. Garin’s firm of 1,202 voters conducted at the end of the summer showed that 76 percent of all voters said they supported the DACA program. That included 41 percent who strongly supported it, according to a memo the firm wrote. Among a demographic that has supported Mr. Trump, white working-class voters without a college degree, there was support from 70 percent of the group, according to Mr. Garin’s survey.