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.

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        They have enabled all sorts of unconstitutional things in the last few years, so I don’t expect them to stop. Doesn’t mean it’s not unconstitutional.

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          They have enabled all sorts of unconstitutional things

          That does mean that your first statement is called into question, though. Whether or not some right-wing fantasy is unconstitutional does not mean it cannot happen, as you accept.****