These are great numbers.
More than half of Americans — including a hefty 42% of Democrats — back mass deportations of illegal immigrants as President Biden’s border crisis rages on, a new poll shows.
Fifty-one percent of those polled said they would support booting the undocumented immigrants, according to the Axios Vibes survey by the Harris Poll released Thursday.
In addition, a large number — 30% of Democrats and 46% of Republicans — signaled support for ending birthright citizenship, which is guaranteed under the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.
Asked what their greatest fear was surrounding illegal immigrants, 21% of those surveyed cited surging crime rates, drugs and violence as their main concern.
Meanwhile, 32% said the Biden administration was “most responsible” for the current border crisis that’s plaguing the country.
Sadly, America is a democracy, and it doesn’t matter what people want.
The other problem is that Americans simply would not have the stomach for what a mass deportation campaign would involve. It would only take a single sad video of some children crying, and the whole thing would be shut down.
The political will probably cannot exist in America to do something like this. Americans are simply too soft.
But it’s nice to know that so many imagine themselves capable of supporting a program like this.
Elvis Dunderhoff contributed to this article.