Recent polls show that a majority of voters support mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, with 62% in favor. However, another poll found that 60% of voters prefer letting undocumented immigrants stay in the country legally. The debate raises concerns about the economic and humanitarian consequences of mass deportations, with critics warning of worker shortages, inflation, supply chain disruptions, and the logistical challenges of deporting millions of people.
Deporting 20 million people - by the way, there are way fewer “illegal aliens” than that - means forcibly removing people from every workplace, every neighborhood, every classroom in America. It means a massive infrastructure of agents and camps to send people… where, exactly? https://t.co/Cd67zhdxsM
I mean, how are you going to remove *checks notes* 20 million people from the country? Yall need to stop talking crazy and get some sense. Think about the logistics and optics and also the human toll that would take https://t.co/ljIDAutZ3x
Mass migration, illegal and legal, creates thousands of negative downstream costs that are borne by the American people. Housing costs rise, wages fall, public services like emergency rooms are choked and home doesn’t feel like home anymore. Deportations will fix these issues. https://t.co/cF5XohJrws
Twenty million people deported is the kind of societal ethnic cleansing that you associate with Hitler, Stalin, or Mao. It would destroy our nation and future generations would jail - or worse - the perpetrators. https://t.co/08xDsD9JzP
Deporting 20 million illegals is actually very easy. Make it a crime to employ, rent to, provide non-emergency medical care to, or sell anything but bread and water to them, and offer free transit back to their home country. Maybe even a stipend on exit. It's will that we need. https://t.co/8HVKUS6Wom
People should take a moment to imagine the amount of terror, violence, expense and destruction that is going to be necessary to deport TWENTY MILLION people. And also, think the won't just mess up and grab a whole bunch of American citizens while they're at it? https://t.co/Bs0DWGLhGZ
Yes. Mass deportations will be ugly. That’s why you don’t allow ~15 million illegal immigrants to enter the country in 4 years while doing nothing except repeating, “the border is secure!”. Blame the people who allowed it to happen, not the people who then have to clean it up. https://t.co/nZf7VuD5T5
Earlier I sent an alarmed post that in a CBS poll 6 in 10 of voters said they favored mass deportations. But there’s more to it. Also this month, a Pew poll found that 6 in 10 favored letting undocumented immigrants STAY IN THE COUNTRY LEGALLY. Can both polls be right? … https://t.co/UdHVrVIxYH https://t.co/XNLcC9R3e3
What do you think happens when you deport 30 million people? https://t.co/o7r80ScImy
Mass deportations would be a humanitarian and economic disaster, exacerbating worker shortages, accelerating inflation, and seriously disrupting supply chains. Pretty skeptical that this poll is accurate but if so, a majority of voters support an economic calamity for the… https://t.co/RTD7RWHf0b
This column says Trump’s immigration policies aren’t popular. But @CBSPolitics poll: ✅mass deportations: 62-38% in favor (53-47% of Hispanics) ✅local cops profiling undocumented: 62-38% (57-43%: Hispanic) ✅more detention centers: 48-52% (50-50%: Hispanic) Tweet 1 of 2 https://t.co/7Hz1rVCLMy https://t.co/vgERN2th0S