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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Feel free to actually look at their methodology instead of talking out your ass.
The survey also found that 39 percent of respondents named immigration a top issue for them this election year — second only to inflation.
WHY?
Because if you still watch TV news it’s literally all they talk about like it’s somehow a real problem. They constantly describe millions of dirty immigrants pouring over the border wall, and yet never show a video or images of this
Cause most illegal immigrants aren’t from the border. Most overstay their visa.
I know that, and you know that. But the dumb fucks watching Fox and CNN are willfully ignorant
not to mention, as if any Americans actually want to do the jobs that undocumented immigrants are doing for us.
This shit is the 21st century witch hunt. Covid cripples the economy from all the governments basically telling you to stay inside and businesses shuttering all over followed by ballooning the national debt by giving out tons of handouts for this. Then once they say “ok it’s been enough time, go out there and get back to work” suddenly all that covid money given to people is being spent, driving up the cost of everything.
Now just a couple years later, everyone is looking for someone to blame for why costs are so high. “They gave us money to survive before… now it costs so much to do everything! It must be the BROWN people’s fault!” simply because they are the newest wave of immigrants in a country built by immigrants for centuries.
Surely it can’t be due to poor zoning laws, bad economic policies by the last administration (which set us up to fail with massive multi-trillion dollar debt thanks to all those big business tax cuts) and a news media gone wild, controlled by a handful of oligarchs who have more money and power than ever before after profiting from it all.
As always, a masterful performance by the rich and powerful. Let’s make america get fucked again! #Recession2029
I don’t think this has anything to do with covid. Trump’s entire 2016 campaign was about building a border wall, and Fox cranks up the border talk leading up to every single election cycle.
I don’t think this has anything to do with covid
Tell that to Biden, who’s kept Trump’s rule about keeping people out using the pandemic as a pretense long after he declared the pandemic over.
that’s not accurate. Title 42 was ended at the same time they ended the covid-19 emergency in May 2023.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/09/politics/title-42-ending-whats-next-explainer-cec/index.html
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.).
i just listened to an interesting podcast that featured a poll expert. he said it’s impossible to get a true range of responses because most younger people will not answer an unknown phone call. I’m guessing the majority of people polled are over 50.
I’m over 50. I never answer unknown numbers. I also never click on links in text messages from people I don’t know.
Politicians are largely to blame for both. I get so many calls & texts from local, state, and national political candidates begging me for money…
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.
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 make Mexico pay for it. Like the wall.
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…
It doesn’t matter if half the country wants something if it is unconstitutional.
