i just listened to an interesting podcast that featured a poll expert. he said it's impossible to get a true range of responses because most younger people will not answer an unknown phone call. I'm guessing the majority of people polled are over 50.
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I’m over 50. I never answer unknown numbers. I also never click on links in text messages from people I don’t know.
Politicians are largely to blame for both. I get so many calls & texts from local, state, and national political candidates begging me for money…
Bullshit. The poll was pushed at the right demographic. That demographic being stupid bigots. The secret to a poll is making sure you get the answer you want by targeting the right simps.
"KnowledgePanel has been at the forefront of conducting online research for more than two decades."
Online poll = gift-wrapped bullshit.
I don’t think those people have put much thought into how much thought into the logistics on how that would happen, and that number would drop significantly if they did. This is what the Democrats should be messaging.
Americans are pretty ideologically incoherent anyway. I’m pretty sure a majority supports granting amnesty to some or all illegal immigrants.
Americans are pretty ideologically incoherent anyway.
Fuckin' mood. You can't have an IRL conversation about political policy with people because it's all fucking feels to them. My personal 'favorite' is people saying they're against gun control, and voting accordingly, but if you ask them what their policy preferences are they're more pro-gun-control than many people who claim to be pro-gun control.
Very sensationalistic title. "Somewhat supporting the deportation of illegal immigrants" is broad enough that most people can make it compatible with whatever their more specific worldview is. Deporting illegal immigrants who commit violent crimes, for example, would fall under that.
I was about to say, "somewhat" is doing some heavy lifting here.
The mass deportation of undocumented immigrants:
30% - Strongly support
24% - Somewhat support
68% also support a path for citizenship for undocumented immigrants who came here as children. Really, the only thing this says is 54% of Americans don't support mass amnesty - which, while unfortunate, should not be surprising to anyone who hasn't bought into the "99% of the electorate is secretly far-left!" shite sometimes peddled by the deluded.
If anything, I'm very surprised that 46% effectively support mass amnesty. That's much higher than I'd have guessed. If the question were posed to me as "would you deport known cartel members who are actively operating while in the country illegally" I'd say yes. That of course would be a vanishingly small percentage of illegals, but it shows how easily the answers can be manipulated.
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Deporting illegal immigrants who commit violent crimes, for example, would fall under that.
The actual phrasing in the poll was, "The mass deportation of undocumented immigrants". I kind of doubt most people would think targeted deportation like for criminals would count as "mass deportation of undocumented immigrants".
The survey also found that 39 percent of respondents named immigration a top issue for them this election year — second only to inflation.
WHY?
Because if you still watch TV news it's literally all they talk about like it's somehow a real problem. They constantly describe millions of dirty immigrants pouring over the border wall, and yet never show a video or images of this
Cause most illegal immigrants aren't from the border. Most overstay their visa.
I know that, and you know that. But the dumb fucks watching Fox and CNN are willfully ignorant
not to mention, as if any Americans actually want to do the jobs that undocumented immigrants are doing for us.
This is a negative of undocumented immigration though. They should be treated as people, not as cattle.
Americans would do the jobs, just not with those conditions and wages. Undocumented immigrants need to do anything they can. The owner is going to choose to pay the immigrant less and cut corners on safety or other costs 9/10 times.
It's an inherent contradiction of capitalism, the same one which used to be solved by slavery and colonialism, the need for maximum profit.
Thats why the way to stop the harmful effects of undocumented immigration isn't to crack down on immigrants, but to crack down on corporations and document the immigrants. (And to reduce push factors such as neo-colonialiam and imperialism in their home countries)
Because it's one of the few issues that the Democratic party and Republican party both tout as a problem.
This shit is the 21st century witch hunt. Covid cripples the economy from all the governments basically telling you to stay inside and businesses shuttering all over followed by ballooning the national debt by giving out tons of handouts for this. Then once they say "ok it's been enough time, go out there and get back to work" suddenly all that covid money given to people is being spent, driving up the cost of everything.
Now just a couple years later, everyone is looking for someone to blame for why costs are so high. "They gave us money to survive before... now it costs so much to do everything! It must be the BROWN people's fault!" simply because they are the newest wave of immigrants in a country built by immigrants for centuries.
Surely it can't be due to poor zoning laws, bad economic policies by the last administration (which set us up to fail with massive multi-trillion dollar debt thanks to all those big business tax cuts) and a news media gone wild, controlled by a handful of oligarchs who have more money and power than ever before after profiting from it all.
As always, a masterful performance by the rich and powerful. Let's make america get fucked again! #Recession2029
I don't think this has anything to do with covid. Trump's entire 2016 campaign was about building a border wall, and Fox cranks up the border talk leading up to every single election cycle.
I don't think this has anything to do with covid
Tell that to Biden, who's kept Trump's rule about keeping people out using the pandemic as a pretense long after he declared the pandemic over.
I guess 54% of americans dont realize how much more difficult and more expensive their lives would be without them. These people fill in the gaps so your children can go to college and get a lib arts degree. Not many people are graduating from high school to go pick strawberries.
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It's amazing how the Republicans still get away with causing a host of ACTUAL problems and then deflect by blaming the country's woes on immigrants (or LGBTQ people, or DEI, etc.).
Has the situation improved under Biden?
Fuck Reagan
I would like to see any of those favoring ideportationtake on the jobs the immigrants take. Maybe they will. But dunno.
The political machine criminalizes more symptoms of despair, the legal machine incarcerates more desperate people. People will work those jobs.
exactly, it would be a catastrophe. so many industries would grind to a halt without their trained laborers, and even if you did somehow manage to backfill all those with documented workers (yeah right), the cost to do so would be insane for less skilled, less efficient workers. the inflation would make post-covid look insignificant by comparison.
Even if you agree... how do you pay for it? What are the logistics for rounding up, housing, and deporting that many people? How do you determine where to deport them to?
Part of the problem, that could be fixed almost immediately, is to allow people to apply for asylum status from their home countries, as of right now they can't claim asylum until they're already (illegally) in the US.
If they could claim asylum from their home countries THEN come here, they wouldn't be here illegally.
There's always money to spend on profiting from human suffering in this country. If you think there won't be a cottage industry that springs up around bounty hunting illegal immigrants if that was to become legal then you need a better imagination.
We'll make Mexico pay for it. Like the wall.
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We’ll just need to build some places to keep them all together until we can get them out. Probably most efficient to get them there by train. Wait…
"I wish America could build some effective passenger rail and free housing"
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Got to appeal to the other side's voters!
When leftists tell liberals that America is and always has been a fascist state, this is a small fraction of what they mean.
Which states are not fascist states? I'm curious. Or is every state a fascist state?
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