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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    The survey also found that 39 percent of respondents named immigration a top issue for them this election year — second only to inflation.

    WHY?

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      Because it’s one of the few issues that the Democratic party and Republican party both taut as a problem.

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      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

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        not to mention, as if any Americans actually want to do the jobs that undocumented immigrants are doing for us.

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          This is a negative of undocumented immigration though. They should be treated as people, not as cattle.

          Americans would do the jobs, just not with those conditions and wages. Undocumented immigrants need to do anything they can. The owner is going to choose to pay the immigrant less and cut corners on safety or other costs 9/10 times.

          It’s an inherent contradiction of capitalism, the same one which used to be solved by slavery and colonialism, the need for maximum profit.

          Thats why the way to stop the harmful effects of undocumented immigration isn’t to crack down on immigrants, but to crack down on corporations and document the immigrants. (And to reduce push factors such as neo-colonialiam and imperialism in their home countries)

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          I know that, and you know that. But the dumb fucks watching Fox and CNN are willfully ignorant