Summary

An Axios-Ipsos poll shows that while two-thirds of Americans, including 93% of Republicans, support mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, support declines when specific methods are proposed.

Only 38% favor using active-duty military, 28% back diverting military funds, and just one-third support separating families or deporting those who arrived as children.

Trump’s plans for mass deportations face logistical, economic, and public opinion challenges.

Experts note abstract support for deportations fades when Americans confront the complexities of implementation.

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    11 hours ago

    They are still asking the wrong questions and blissfully ignoring the elephant in the room. If you round up thousands of people there will be logistical problems:

    a) you can only deport people to countries which are willing to take them.

    b) you’ll have to detain them until they can be deported

    Which means concentration camps. Ask Americans if they support concentration camps in their country. Because that is what is going to happen.

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      1 hour ago

      concentration camps

      Detention facilities. Or whatever bullshit they come up with to make it seem alright.

      Word play is a very American Thing.

    • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 hours ago

      Well they’re already building the camp(s) in Texas. I don’t know how anyone who voted for this thought it would go down. It’s a bit late to cry “but not like that!”.

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      7 hours ago

      Yeah that’s exactly how the concentration camps happened in Nazi Germany. The initial plan wasn’t to start starving and gassing the Jews. It was to round them up and deport them. Turns out you can’t practically deport millions of people, so they started murdering them instead.

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        I think you’re missing an “n’t” in there somewhere