More than half of all Americans, including a quarter of Democrats, support the mass deportation of immigrants who are living in the country illegally, a new poll found.
The Scripps News/Ipsos survey’s findings come as former President Trump and his allies have intensely focused on immigration in the 2024 election cycle.
About 54 percent of respondents — 86 percent of Republicans, 58 percent of independents and 25 percent of Democrats — said they “strongly” or “somewhat” support a wide-scale effort to deport millions of immigrants, and 59 percent said they are closely following the “immigration situation at the U.S.-Mexico border.”
That is fucking terrifying.
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“KnowledgePanel has been at the forefront of conducting online research for more than two decades.”
Online poll = gift-wrapped bullshit.
It’s amazing how the Republicans still get away with causing a host of ACTUAL problems and then deflect by blaming the country’s woes on immigrants (or LGBTQ people, or DEI, etc.).
Bullshit. The poll was pushed at the right demographic. That demographic being stupid bigots. The secret to a poll is making sure you get the answer you want by targeting the right simps.
I would like to see any of those favoring deportation take on the jobs the immigrants take. Maybe they will. But dunno.
exactly, it would be a catastrophe. so many industries would grind to a halt without their trained laborers, and even if you did somehow manage to backfill all those with documented workers (yeah right), the cost to do so would be insane for less skilled, less efficient workers. the inflation would make post-covid look insignificant by comparison.
Even if you agree… how do you pay for it? What are the logistics for rounding up, housing, and deporting that many people? How do you determine where to deport them to?
Part of the problem, that could be fixed almost immediately, is to allow people to apply for asylum status from their home countries, as of right now they can’t claim asylum until they’re already (illegally) in the US.
If they could claim asylum from their home countries THEN come here, they wouldn’t be here illegally.
We’ll make Mexico pay for it. Like the wall.
There’s always money to spend on profiting from human suffering in this country. If you think there won’t be a cottage industry that springs up around bounty hunting illegal immigrants if that was to become legal then you need a better imagination.
We’ll just need to build some places to keep them all together until we can get them out. Probably most efficient to get them there by train. Wait…
“I wish America could build some effective passenger rail and free housing”
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It doesn’t matter if half the country wants something if it is unconstitutional.
