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.
Even if you agree… how do you pay for it? What are the logistics for rounding up, housing, and deporting that many people? How do you determine where to deport them to?
Part of the problem, that could be fixed almost immediately, is to allow people to apply for asylum status from their home countries, as of right now they can’t claim asylum until they’re already (illegally) in the US.
If they could claim asylum from their home countries THEN come here, they wouldn’t be here illegally.
There is no way it could happen, logistically. Even small countries struggle with it. The US is so disorganized and lazy. Also, blue states aren’t going to be strongly enforcing it.
There’s always money to spend on profiting from human suffering in this country. If you think there won’t be a cottage industry that springs up around bounty hunting illegal immigrants if that was to become legal then you need a better imagination.
We’ll make Mexico pay for it. Like the wall.