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.
Picking strawberries isn’t going to pay rent and student loans either.
And before you say “well maybe they shouldn’t have taken them out”, maybe we shouldn’t have been telling teenagers to take on tens of thousands of dollars of debt. Or maybe we shouldn’t be charging tens of thousands of dollars for what has basically been a requirement for any entry-level career job.
I wasn’t going to say any of that.