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Mass deportations? – Hot air

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Axios commissioned a Harris poll and found something that wasn’t surprising, even if the establishment was shocked.

Americans support mass deportations of illegal aliens. I suspect they would support mass deportations of legal aliens who also express anti-American views, now that I think about it.

“I was surprised by the public support for large-scale deportations,” said Mark Penn, chairman of The Harris Poll and a former pollster for President Clinton.

That’s not me at all. This is what’s called a backlash, dude.

Americans have consistently expressed support for legal immigration, but just as consistently have told everyone else that they don’t like illegal immigration.

No one in power has listened to them – Biden has instead opened the floodgates, allowing millions of illegal immigrants to flood into the country and wreak havoc on our cities.

What did he expect? Flower petals thrown at the people ruining our cities, perhaps.

The sentiment is not universal, of course, but even 42% of Democrats support rounding up illegal aliens and deporting them.

That is a big slap in the face to our establishment, and especially to President Biden. While Biden tells Americans that illegal immigrants built our country (how? They weren’t even here!), most Americans see billions of dollars being poured into housing and food for people, many of whom turn out to be criminals.

Americans are open to former President Trump’s strictest immigration plans, fueled by a record wave of illegal border crossings and a brutal messaging war waged by Republicans.

  • President Biden is well aware that the crisis threatens his re-election. He is tried to flip the script by accusing Trump of sabotage Congress’s most conservative bipartisan immigration bill in decades.
  • But when it comes to blame, Biden has so far failed to change the narrative, with 32% of respondents saying his administration is “most responsible” for the crisis, surpassing all other political or structural factors.

Axios vibe check: In the middle of one record number at border crossings, nearly two-thirds of Americans said illegal immigration is a real crisis, not a politically driven media story.

Two-thirds say so, and many more think so too.

Trump has promised to carry out the ‘largest domestic deportation operation in American history’, which targeted large-scale raids and detention camps in a plan that aim for millions of undocumented immigrants.

  • Americans are generally not keen on deporting immigrants who have established roots in the US. But the poll of 6,251 American adults suggests the dynamic may be changing amid rising fears of crime and violence.
  • Trump has stoked this fear at every opportunity, campaigning on false claims of a “wave of immigrant crime” and declaring that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.”

When asked identify their biggest concerns around illegal immigration, the Americans most often cited:

  1. Increased crime rates, drugs and violence (21%).
  2. The additional costs for the taxpayer (18%).
  3. Risk of terrorism and national security (17%).

Americans have not turned their backs on legal immigration. Overwhelming numbers still express support for immigrants and harbor no ill will toward them. Perhaps that’s because people who lined up to come to this country for a better life tend to be good citizens and productive members of society, and even more likely to be entrepreneurs than natural-born citizens.

Immigrants contribute to the vitality of this country.

But if your very first act in America is breaking the law—and that’s what we’re talking about—you may not be quite the same as those who came here legally.

Just sayin’.

The survey still found that Americans strongly support immigration as long as it is legal. ‘Illegal’ immigration is what makes people worried.

  • 58% said they support expanding legal routes for orderly immigration, while 46% said asylum seekers should be protected if their cases are legitimate.
  • 68% said illegal immigration is causing major problems in communities, while only 27% said the same about legal immigration.
  • And 65% of Americans say the US should make it easier for anyone looking for a better life to enter legally, so they don’t have to enter the country illegally.

Do you see those numbers? Only 32% of people don’t think illegal immigration is a big problem, while 73% think legal immigrants are not a problem.

We are not xenophobes. We want law-abiding and productive people to come here, not people who start their journey as residents as criminals demanding that we house and feed them.

Actually very simple.

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