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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Wed Jul 17, 2019, 08:26 AM Jul 2019

Poll: Slim majority supports deportation raids

Source: Politico

By CAITLIN OPRYSKO 07/17/2019 05:04 AM EDT

A slim majority of voters supports the mass deportation raids previewed by President Donald Trump last week, a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll shows.

The survey found that 51 percent of voters supported the sweeping raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, compared with 35 percent of voters who oppose those efforts.

Around two-thirds of voters said they’d heard about the ICE raids, which had already been delayed once amid internal resistance and word of their timing having leaked and were set to begin Sunday in nearly a dozen cities across the country.

The president warned of the raids last week, saying his administration was planning to remove thousands of immigrants with court orders for removal, but would prioritize removing violent criminals. The threat prompted undocumented immigrants to hunker down in fear and spurred protests from activists across the country.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/17/ice-deportation-raids-1417799

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Poll: Slim majority supports deportation raids (Original Post) DonViejo Jul 2019 OP

i can easily believe this JI7 Jul 2019 #1

Safety issues? Ohiogal Jul 2019 #2

Mexicans also favor deportations -- from their country. former9thward Jul 2019 #3

Vomit Bigredhunk Jul 2019 #4

I no longer want to live in this shithole. sinkingfeeling Jul 2019 #5

Support would drop if Americans were told the DeminPennswoods Jul 2019 #6

Not believing it Bayard Jul 2019 #7

1: It's a fake (online) poll. 2: It's just more Politico click bait PSPS Jul 2019 #8

51-35 is a slim majority? Polybius Jul 2019 #9

so according to this poll, 51% of americans consider themselves fascists and racists. nt yaesu Jul 2019 #10

I find this really hard to believe karin_sj Jul 2019 #11

JI7

(89,281 posts)

1. i can easily believe this

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Jul 17, 2019, 08:32 AM

Jul 2019

Ohiogal

(32,122 posts)

2. Safety issues?

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Jul 17, 2019, 08:35 AM

Jul 2019

Red meat for the base. If they want safety, they should address the vast amount of US citizens who already are mentally ill or belong to extremist right wing groups who own large caches of guns.

former9thward

(32,101 posts)

3. Mexicans also favor deportations -- from their country.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Jul 17, 2019, 08:48 AM

Jul 2019

Unauthorized immigrants face public backlash in Mexico, survey finds

MEXICO CITY — Mexicans are deeply frustrated with immigrants after a year of heightened migration from Central America through the country, according to a survey conducted by The Washington Post and Mexico’s Reforma newspaper.

More than 6 in 10 Mexicans say migrants are a burden on their country because they take jobs and benefits that should belong to Mexicans. A 55 percent majority supports deporting migrants who travel through Mexico to reach the United States.

Those findings defy the perception that Mexico — a country that has sent millions of its own migrants to the United States, sending billions of dollars in remittances — is sympathetic to the surge of Central Americans. Instead, the data suggests Mexicans have turned against the migrants transiting through their own country, expressing antipathy that would be familiar to many supporters of President Trump north of the border.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/unauthorized-immigrants-face-public-backlash-in-mexico-survey-finds/2019/07/16/f7fc5d12-a75e-11e9-a3a6-ab670962db05_story.html?utm_term=.74c52385073d&wpisrc=al_news__alert-national--alert-world--alert-politics&wpmk=1

Bigredhunk

(1,351 posts)

4. Vomit

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Jul 17, 2019, 09:16 AM

Jul 2019

It's sooo easy to pit people against a group of others.

sinkingfeeling

(51,482 posts)

5. I no longer want to live in this shithole.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Jul 17, 2019, 09:34 AM

Jul 2019

DeminPennswoods

(15,290 posts)

6. Support would drop if Americans were told the

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Jul 17, 2019, 10:06 AM

Jul 2019

deportation orders are for things like crossing illegally or overstaying visas, not dangerous crimes.

Bayard

(22,184 posts)

7. Not believing it

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Jul 17, 2019, 10:08 AM

Jul 2019

Any more than I think the majority of the country thinks the people in concentration camps are having a big party.

PSPS

(13,623 posts)

8. 1: It's a fake (online) poll. 2: It's just more Politico click bait

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Jul 17, 2019, 10:44 AM

Jul 2019

Polybius

(15,512 posts)

9. 51-35 is a slim majority?

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Jul 17, 2019, 11:23 AM

Jul 2019

If the numbers are really that high, I'd be worried.

yaesu

(8,020 posts)

10. so according to this poll, 51% of americans consider themselves fascists and racists. nt

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Jul 17, 2019, 11:47 AM

Jul 2019

karin_sj

(812 posts)

11. I find this really hard to believe

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Jul 17, 2019, 12:05 PM

Jul 2019

And I'd like to know a little more about how they polled and who they polled since it's such a small number of people.

"The POLITICO/Morning Consult poll was conducted online from July 12-14 among a national sample of 1,984 registered voters. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points."

I think it's ridiculous that they're saying "51 percent of voters supported the sweeping raids" when they only polled a minuscule amount of people.

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