Nine months into President Trump’s mass deportation campaign, registered voters largely support the idea of removing immigrants who have arrived in the country illegally, even as majorities say they feel his methods have gone too far, according to the latest survey from The New York Times and Siena University.
Since Mr. Trump returned to power, his administration has enacted a new travel ban, sought to pull temporary humanitarian protections from hundreds of thousands of people, flown immigrants to countries where they are not from and deployed federal law enforcement officers to Chicago, Washington, D.C., and other major cities in a made-for-TV show of force to combat crime and illegal immigration.
In that time, the share of registered voters who favor deporting immigrants living in the country illegally — 54 percent — has remained unchanged.
More than 90 percent of Republicans, 52 percent of independents and nearly 20 percent of Democrats continue to broadly support the idea of deporting those here illegally.
More specifically, 51 percent said they thought the government was deporting mostly people who “should be deported,” while 42 percent said the government was deporting the wrong people.
“I feel there were a lot of people who were brought into the country that shouldn’t have been brought into the country,” said Laura Lechner, 67, a Republican and retired radio traffic manager in Wichita, Kan. She cited the record levels of migrants who entered the United States under the Biden administration, saying she believed some had been granted legal status without being properly vetted.
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