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.
I guess 54% of americans dont realize how much more difficult and more expensive their lives would be without them. These people fill in the gaps so your children can go to college and get a lib arts degree. Not many people are graduating from high school to go pick strawberries.
Kids with lib arts degrees aren’t getting jobs and can’t pay rent so maybe getting a job doing something useful would be a good thing.
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.
Maybe getting a job and affordable housing anywhere would be helpful.
I hear that.