Rebecca Zeljko
A majority of voters support mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, a policy former President Donald Trump promised to implement, according to a Scripps News/Ipsos poll released Wednesday.
The mass deportation policy that Trump promoted during his presidential campaign won 54 percent of voters, including 86 percent of Republicans, 58 percent of independents and 25 percent of Democrats, According to to the poll. Immigration remains a priority for 39% of voters, second only to inflation, which 57% of voters see as their top issue in November.
Trump has a ten-point lead over Vice President Kamala Harris on immigration, the poll shows.
In the time of Harris, who was previously called Border Tsar Biden’s administration has seen more than 10 million migrants nationwide meetingsAccording to US Customs and Border Patrol data, the southern border alone has seen more than 8 million encounters with migrants under the Biden-Harris administration.
In contrast, Trump has repeatedly he supported to mass deport illegal immigrants. In the wake of Laken Riley’s death, which was allegedly committed by an illegal immigrant, Trump he vowed carry out “the largest deportation operation” of people in the country illegally in American history.
“JOSE BIDEN’S CORRUPTED BORDER INVASION is destroying our country and killing our citizens!” Trump he said in a Truth Social post from February. “The horrific murder of 22-year-old Laken Riley at the University of Georgia should NEVER have happened! The monster that took her life illegally entered our country in 2022… and then was re-released by radical Democrats in New York after injuring a CHILD!!”
“When I become your president, we will immediately close the border, stop the invasion, and on day one begin the largest deportation of illegal CRIMINALS in American history!” Trump continued. “God bless Laken Riley and her family!!! Our prayers are with you!”
About half of Americans also said they were concerned about undocumented immigrants voting in the 2024 election, according to the poll. A majority of Republicans, 83%, reported that concern, as did 46% of independents and 24% of Democrats.
House He passed the July bill known as SAVE Actthat would require people to show proof of citizenship in order to register to vote. Another Republican-led bill that would prevent noncitizens from voting in Washington, D.C. elections also He passed House of Representatives in May, with 140 Democrats vote against the provision. Both bills have not yet been passed in the Senate.
A majority of Republicans and more than half of Democrats support reducing the number of migrants who claim to be asylum seekers, according to the poll. At the same time, a solid majority of Democrats and about half of Republicans support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who have been in the U.S. since childhood.
The Scripps News/Ipsos poll surveyed 1,027 adults from September 13 to 15 and has a margin of error of 3.6 points.
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Rebecca Zeljko is a reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Photo “Illegal Immigrants” by John Modlin.
