Former President Donald Trump’s strict immigration policies are finding bipartisan support among Americans, with a significant portion of Democrats backing such measures, along with saying the problem is real—not something conjured up by conservative media.
President Trump has vowed to end birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants and conduct a large-scale deportation of illegal immigrants once reelected.
During his administration, President Trump instituted stringent immigration policies that were severely criticized by Democrat politicians.
More Democrats appear to be aligning with such Trump policies.
Forty-two percent supported “implementing mass deportations of undocumented immigrants.” Thirty-eight percent back “implementing travel bans on people from certain countries.”
Another 35 percent want to shut down the southern border entirely, and 30 percent support “ending automatic citizenship for children born in the U.S.”
This is the first time since 2019 that immigration was cited as the most important problem.
Moreover, the survey found “a record-high 55 percent of U.S. adults, up eight points from last year, saying that ‘large numbers of immigrants entering the United States illegally’ is a critical threat to U.S. vital interests. The prior high was 50 percent in 2004.”
Majority of Citizens Want to Expel Illegals
A majority of U.S. citizens now back expelling illegal immigrants from the United States. A survey by Axios/The Harris Poll found that 51 percent of Americans supported “mass deportations of undocumented immigrants.”Politically, 68 percent of Republicans, 46 percent of independents, and 42 percent of Democrats approve of the idea. In terms of race, 56 percent of whites, 45 percent of Latinos, and 40 percent of blacks support it.
The Boomer generation was most supportive of deporting illegal immigrants, followed by Gen X, Millennials, and lastly Gen Z.
“I was surprised at the public support for large-scale deportations,” said Mark Penn, chairman of The Harris Poll and a former pollster for President Clinton.
“I think they’re just sending a message to politicians: ‘Get this under control.’”
The poll results are a warning to President Biden that “efforts to shift responsibility for the issue to Trump are not going to work.”
This rose to 2.37 million in fiscal year 2022 and then to 2.47 million in 2023. For the first six months of this fiscal year, 1.34 million encounters have already been registered.
Between October 2021 and March 2024, the total number of encounters was more than 7.9 million illegal immigrants.
“Since Joe Biden went into the Oval Office, it began on day one, they began to open that border wide,” he said.
The administration has taken more than 60 executive and agency actions, he said, to “open the border wide and send the welcome message to everybody around the globe, including violent criminals and terrorists and foreign nationals ... coming here to do us harm.”
The first article accused him of having “willfully and systematically refused to comply with federal immigration laws.” The second article alleged that he “breached the public trust by lying to Congress and hindering investigation” into the department.
On April 17, Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) criticized Democrats for suppressing Mr. Mayorkas’s impeachment trial.
“Senate Democrats insulted the United States Senate as an institution and, more importantly, the American people by suppressing the impeachment trial for Secretary Mayorkas and denying the right of every American to hear the evidence,” she said.
“Let’s be clear, they wanted this trial stopped because it would have been politically inconvenient for them. We all see what’s going on at the border. There’s no hiding Secretary Mayorkas’ blatant failure to enforce our laws and protect the American people by securing our borders.
“There’s no hiding the more than 9 million illegal immigrants allowed into our country under his watch, and the growing costs to taxpayers who are forced to provide services for them.”
