Posted on 03/18/2017 5:25:23 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
A CNN poll out this morning tests one of the fundamental tenets of the Trump and Bannon worldview in a very illuminating way. It finds that large majorities reject the basic idea that undocumented immigrants who have been in this country for a long time — and have not committed serious crimes — should nonetheless be subject to removal.
It’s the latest sign of a larger trend as the narrative of President Trump and his top adviser, Stephen K. Bannon is getting translated into concrete policy.
And Americans are recoiling from the results.
The CNN poll finds that 58 percent of Americans worry that those efforts “will go too far and result in deportation of people who haven’t committed serious crimes.”
60 percent say the government should prioritize legalizing those working here illegally.
Trump has vastly expanded the pool of undocumented immigrants who are now targets, claiming longtime residents and low-level offenders are nothing more than lawbreakers who should be subject to enforcement.
But CNN finds the public broadly rejects this notion.
A Quinnipiac poll finds support for allowing undocumented immigrants to remain is at a new high of 63 percent. Meanwhile, sizable majorities disapprove of Trump’s planned border walls.
In the initial outcry over Trump’s travel ban, Bannon insisted that the “overwhelming majority of Americans” support his “populist nation-state policies,” meaning that a large majority is rooting for Trumpism to succeed. But this is just false.
Now the American electorate are digesting Trump’s budget, which would deeply cut into the State Department budget in ways that weaken America’s constructive international engagement.
It would slash away at the Environmental Protection Agency budget, weakening environmental protections and scrapping Obama policies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions essential to meeting our commitments as part of the Paris climate accord.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Illegal aliens are not entitled to lawyers. Several court decisions have made that plain. Most are not even entitled to hearings. Removals can be expedited so that detentions are reduced.
Enforcement is expensive
Amnesty is MORE expensive.
Keeping our country is PRICELESS.
Illegal aliens are not entitled to lawyers. Several court decisions have made that plain. Most are not even entitled to hearings. Removals can be expedited so that detentions are reduced.
Enforcement is expensive
Amnesty is MORE expensive.
Keeping our country is PRICELESS.
Many of us say cut all of them. Dont just transfer the waste from one dept to another.
Washington Post reporting on CNN report... fake squared.
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