Americans hold complex views on what should happen to undocumented immigrants. As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to ramp up mass deportations, about three-quarters of U.S. adults say they are at least somewhat concerned about the number of immigrants entering the country illegally, and a majority support enforcing mass deportation.
I think most Americans are liars at this point. Sure they might say they don’t want people rounded up into concentration camps, but they sure as fuck will vote for it when no one is looking.
When asked in the same poll, Americans do support deportations but also more support legalization of immigrants.
https://www.vox.com/policy/368889/immigration-border-polls-election-2024-trump-harris
https://news.gallup.com/poll/647123/sharply-americans-curb-immigration.aspx
Republicans have primed Americans into thinking illegal immigrants are criminals bringing in crime and drugs into the country. Which is completely fabricated and untrue. However, since Biden, Democrats have failed to counter message and instead adopted this right wing framing on immigration.
That’s the entire reason we see this contradiction. A genuine counter message would be popular, as it was with the Dreamers messaging under Obama. A genuine counter message is essential, considering that Trump is going to start mass deportations day one, meaning concentration camps for millions of Americans.
And once camps are set up, it never stops with only one group of “undesirables”. I fully expect transgender people to be next, then activists rebranded as terrorists, then political opponents.
How did you get that knowledge or feeling?
I’m asking because most articles I’ve read that analyze the recent election say that many voters who supported Trump did so primarily because of economic concerns.
many voters who supported Trump did so primarily because of economic concerns
That doesn’t conflict with my statement at all. They don’t actually care about what happens to other people, specifically immigrants in this case. What they say completely conflicts with their actions.
Most Americans are perfectly happy to endorse a domestic genocide if they think it will slightly improve their personal lives/wallets. Or they’re just totally indifferent, which isn’t much better in my opinion.
Considering he isn’t going to do anything to help the economy, I don’t know why they voted like that.
People are fucking morons who never learn anything. They just listen to whatever tall man says things the most confidently whether it is positive and true or blatant lies. People are worried about immigrants despite every single study and statistic showing the concern is based on blatant lies and they haven’t learned that Republicans have constantly fucked over the economy for decades with repeated attempts at Reaganomics.
But the guy who fucked is over just 4 years ago while lying about everything saying it over and over means they will listen, because people are morons.
Yep, they were told the economy was terrible and so they just parroted that back. Now that Trump got elected, suddenly they think the economy is better even though Trump isn’t in power and has done nothing.
Amen
Then most of Americans should have fucking voted.
Yet most Americans voted for the guy saying that he would deport them all.
Most Americans say…
Yeah, it doesn’t matter.
I think we should let them all stay and arrest their human traffickers, let them get new illegal jobs, then arrest more people who like hiring illegals so they can pay them less and subject them to abusive work environments while decreasing healthy employment opportunities for citizens. It’s wild to me that people are blaming illegal workers when they’re a) the ones doing the most right-WORK, and b) have the least control over the situation especially compared to their employers who are often responsible for them arriving and staying illegally in the first place, and sometimes even by FORCE. There shouldn’t be any illegal work, just illegal hiring. They can stay and get another job, then when that next person abuses them they just report them to the tipline and send them to prison for 10 years too. Huge billboards everywhere,“are you being abused while working without a visa? We’ll send them to prison and let you go! Call ___ ___ ____!”
