Majority of Americans Support Deportation of Illegals, Says … NYT/Siena?

Democrats won’t listen to Harvard. Maybe they’ll listen to the New York Times?

This entire year, Democrats from Los Angeles to Chicago to Portland to Boston have gone all-in against increased immigration enforcement. They have ginned up violent activists to attack ICE agents serving judicial warrants to deport known criminal illegal aliens. The elite cognoscenti have cast Donald Trump as Hitler and federal agents as brownshirts for enforcing the law — and they have expected to get the American electorate behind them as a result of their hysteria. 

Nine months into the process, voters refuse to budge. A new poll from the NYT and Siena University show a clear majority in favor of deporting illegal aliens, and even a small but significant slice of Democrats agree:

Since Mr. Trump returned to power, his administration has enacted a new travel ban, sought to pull temporary humanitarian protections from hundreds of thousands of people, flown immigrants to countries where they are not from and deployed federal law enforcement officers to Chicago, Washington, D.C., and other major cities in a made-for-TV show of force to combat crime and illegal immigration.

In that time, the share of registered voters who favor deporting immigrants living in the country illegally — 54 percent — has remained unchanged.

More than 90 percent of Republicans, 52 percent of independents and nearly 20 percent of Democrats continue to broadly support the idea of deporting those here illegally.

The demos on this question are pretty devastating even outside of partisan affiliation. Overall, approval of deporting illegal aliens — without the “criminal” qualifier, no less — gets 54/42 approval. Among the age demos, only voters under 30 oppose it, 34/61. Voters between 30-44 slightly approve, 49/47, but voters between 45-64 and over 65 approve overwhelmingly, 62/36 and 61/36, respectively. Voters in every region but the West (47/50) approve, especially the South (61/36) and Midwest (49/47). Twenty percent of Kamala Harris voters approve of deportations, and even 24% of those who disapprove of Trump support deportations. Even college graduates are evenly split, 49/50, while non-college graduates strongly favor deportations, 57/38.

Not only do respondents largely support the process, they also aren’t buying the “mistaken identity” claims that Democrats and the Protection Racket Media keep trying to push:

More specifically, 51 percent said they thought the government was deporting mostly people who “should be deported,” while 42 percent said the government was deporting the wrong people.

Just in case one thinks that Siena mistakenly oversampled MAGA voters, here are a few other results of this poll:

• Giving economic and military aid to Israel: 39/51
• Deployment of Nat’l Guard to DC: 41/50
• Revoking TV station licenses for criticizing Trump: 12/77 (as it should be)
• Trump’s use of executive authority legitimate: 42/54
• Blame for the shutdown: 19% on Congressional Dems, 26% on Trump & GOP
• Right/Wrong direction: 36/58

In other words, this isn’t an outlier sample. Trump gets a 43/54 job approval rating too, roughly in line with other polling (45/42 at RCP), although Dems only get a +2 on the generic ballot, 49/47 (46/43.1 at RCP). There is no reason to think that the NYT/Siena poll has missed the mark on these questions, especially since immigration is practically the only positive result for Trump within it. 

And of course, this is what the Harvard-Harris CAPS poll has shown all along. Their latest iteration asks the deportation two different ways, and majorities have sided with Trump in both instances all year. The latest iteration is no exception:

• Deporting immigrants who are here illegally and have committed crimes: 48/22
• Deporting all immigrants who are here illegally: 56/44

Plus, these are the results from the Harvard-Harris CAPS poll on related questions:

• Closing the border with added security and policies that discourage illegal crossings: 68/32
• Use the military to prevent illegal immigration in the U.S.: 55/45
• Use the National Guard and active-duty military to police American cities and stop crime and disorder: 51/49

The American people keep telling Democrats what they want. Democrats keep lecturing the American electorate on what they should want. That’s how they painted themselves into a fringe corner, and their support for violent protests to stop what voters demand will only keep painting themselves into tighter and tighter corners. 

Editor’s Note: We voted for mass deportations, not mass amnesty. Help us continue to fight back against those trying to go against the will of the American people.

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