Summary
An Axios-Ipsos poll shows that while two-thirds of Americans, including 93% of Republicans, support mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, support declines when specific methods are proposed.
Only 38% favor using active-duty military, 28% back diverting military funds, and just one-third support separating families or deporting those who arrived as children.
Trump’s plans for mass deportations face logistical, economic, and public opinion challenges.
Experts note abstract support for deportations fades when Americans confront the complexities of implementation.
They are still asking the wrong questions and blissfully ignoring the elephant in the room. If you round up thousands of people there will be logistical problems:
a) you can only deport people to countries which are willing to take them.
b) you’ll have to detain them until they can be deported
Which means concentration camps. Ask Americans if they support concentration camps in their country. Because that is what is going to happen.
Yeah that’s exactly how the concentration camps happened in Nazi Germany. The initial plan wasn’t to start starving and gassing the Jews. It was to round them up and deport them. Turns out you can’t practically deport millions of people, so they started murdering them instead.
I think you’re missing an “n’t” in there somewhere
Whoops, thanks. Fixed it.
For the third time, at least.
I mean, we always have in the past. Native Americans, Japanese during wwII, waco
Waco?
That one was a joke
concentration camps
Detention facilities. Or whatever bullshit they come up with to make it seem alright.
Word play is a very American Thing.
I’d say it’s a very “thing that’s done in politics” everywhere.
Fervently Supporting a thing you wouldn’t support if you just gave a little critical thought to the matter feels uniquely American.
Brexit says it’s not just America.
Aren’t right wing factions gaining ground in most countries now? No policy based off hate will be intellectual.
And doubly republican.
Only because you’re prejudiced.
This just in,
Racist people dumb as shit.
More News at 11
Immigrants made America great, and America needs immigrants to remain great.
America hasn’t been great for anyone but rich people for quite some time now. There’s certainly worse places to be but there’s also a lot of better places regardless of which metric you evaluate that by.
Why does US continue to attract so many immigrants across the economic scale and education level
I get why you’re being downvoted, but a lot of people seem to be ignoring that the US still has top tier secondary education, numerous job opportunities, and is still a major global player. On top of that the US is a very diverse country. However much we may struggle with racism and societal issues, there are large populations of people from every region/religion/language.
Very few people have a grasp on immigration law in the first place. I’d imagine most Americans don’t understand that if someone was brought into the country without a visa as a child, raised here, and got married to a citizen and had kids they must be deported and are banned from applying for a green card for 10 years (there are appeals to this, but that’s how the process stands). Breaking up families like that is nonsensical from a public policy standpoint, so nobody really intuits that’s how the system works.
This happened to an old co-worker of mine. His wife was deported after they had been married for awhile and had a kid. It took them something like 6 or 7 years, and tens of thousands of dollars, to get her back to the US, and she almost died in the process. The cartel found out her husband was American and mugged her on her walk home from work. They stabbed her in the neck, barely missing her carotid artery. Their story is crazy af, and still breaks my heart for them, when I think about. Dude, lost out on most of his first daughter’s early childhood and almost lost it all because the US thinks it’s necessary to punish people that were brought here as children. So stupid.
Thankfully, they’re all in the US now and, last I heard, they had another kid and are doing great. :)
About one in 10 Americans — and close to 1 in 5 Republicans — said they’d support deporting immigrants who are in the country lawfully.
Lead and microplastics have severely fucked us all up in the head.
Republicans have primed Americans into thinking illegal immigrants are criminals bringing in crime and drugs into the country. Which is completely fabricated and untrue. However, the Democratic Party have failed to counter message (since they dropped the Dreamers messaging) and instead adopted the right wing on immigration. That’s the entire reason we see this contradiction. A genuine counter message would be popular. And it’s essential considering that Trump is going to start mass deportations tomorrow, which will quickly mean the beginning of concentration camps for millions of Americans
Even within the polls where deportations have majority support, in the same poll, there is much more support for legalization.
https://www.vox.com/policy/368889/immigration-border-polls-election-2024-trump-harris
https://news.gallup.com/poll/647123/sharply-americans-curb-immigration.aspx
Do we know what the response would be if you asked them in an open-ended manner? Is there a party-line answer circulating in the right-wing cinematic universe?
Ah yes, when you start to think about those people as people, it does start to get harder to say you want to hurt them, doesn’t it?
just one-third support separating families or deporting those who arrived as children
Bad news for these guys btw
