Former President Donald Trump in February promised that, if elected, he would deliver “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history” to reverse the open-border crisis wrought by President Joe Biden.
As Axios reported at the time, “Trump wants to mobilize ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] agents — along with the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, federal prosecutors, the National Guard, and even state and local law enforcement officers.”
The left, naturally predicted doom and gloom.
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But a new poll shows Americans, after watching Biden allow an estimated 10 million illegal immigrants stream across the border, are on board with Trump’s plan.
As Axios, which conducted the poll, put it on Thursday, “America warms to mass deportations.”
The survey of nearly 6,300 Americans revealed that 51% agree with Trump’s assessment and plan.
Perhaps not surprisingly, two of every three Republicans back Trump.
The danger for Biden and his re-election chances are that 46% of independents and 42% of Democrats back Trump’s call for “mass deportations.”
Additionally, 30% of Democrats and 46% of Republicans are on board with ending birthright citizenship, as spelled out in the 14th Amendment. In short, those groups want to stop illegals from reaching America and being allowed to stay just because a woman has a baby in the U.S.
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Axios added that roughly two-thirds of Americans assert that illegal immigration is a very real problem, and not just a political talking point.
Biden is “keenly aware” of how illegal immigration is weighing down his re-election prospects, Axios added.
His response, instead of closing the border, has been to blame Trump and congressional Republicans for sabotaging the leftist immigration bill that he supported.
“But when it comes to blame, Biden so far has failed to shift the narrative,” Axios noted. Overall, 32% of poll respondents say his administration is “most responsible” for the immigration catastrophe, which outranks any other “political or structural” factor that Axios asked about.
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“I was surprised at the public support for large-scale deportations,” Mark Penn, chairman of The Harris Poll and a former pollster for President Bill Clinton, told Axios.
“I think they’re just sending a message to politicians: ‘Get this under control,'” Penn said, adding that “efforts to shift responsibility for the issue to Trump are not going to work.”
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