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Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024

Do a majority of polled Americans support mass deportation?


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The polls also found that an even larger share of Americans support legal status pathways for undocumented immigrants in some scenarios, like if they were brought to the U.S. as children, are married to U.S. citizens or fill labor shortages.

Data for Progress found most of those polled, when presented with specific scenarios that could result in deportation, only supported it in two cases: nonviolent criminals and recent border crossers.

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