More than half of all Americans, including a quarter of Democrats, support the mass deportation of immigrants who are living in the country illegally, a new poll found.

The Scripps News/Ipsos survey’s findings come as former President Trump and his allies have intensely focused on immigration in the 2024 election cycle.

About 54 percent of respondents — 86 percent of Republicans, 58 percent of independents and 25 percent of Democrats — said they “strongly” or “somewhat” support a wide-scale effort to deport millions of immigrants, and 59 percent said they are closely following the “immigration situation at the U.S.-Mexico border.”

That is fucking terrifying.

  • Maeve
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    -213 hours ago

    Has the situation improved under Biden?

    • @[email protected]
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      23 hours ago

      No, because right-wing politics still exists to cause problems for no reason other than enjoying making the world worse.

      • Maeve
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        13 hours ago

        And to make a few people very, very wealthy.

        • @[email protected]
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          13 hours ago

          Massive wealth inequality is integral to making the world worse for as many people as possible.