Ya think?
Posted on 04/25/2025 2:03:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
PASSAIC, N.J. (AP) — Alleged gang members without criminal records wrongly sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador.
International students detained by masked federal agents for writing opinion columns or attending campus demonstrations.
American citizens, visa holders and visitors stopped at airports, detained for days or facing deportation for minor infractions.
Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has launched an unprecedented campaign of immigration enforcement that has pushed the limits of executive power and clashed with federal judges trying to restrain him. But unlike in his first term, Trump’s efforts have not sparked the kind of widespread condemnation or protests that led him to retreat from some unpopular positions.
Instead, immigration has emerged as one of Trump’s strongest issues in public polling, reflecting both his grip on the Republican base and a broader shift in public sentiment that is driven in part, interviews suggest, by anger at the policies of his predecessor, Democrat Joe Biden.
The White House has seized on this shift, mocking critics and egging on Democrats to engage on an issue that Trump’s team sees as a win.
“I think this is another men/women’s sports thing for the Democrats,” Trump said in an interview with Time magazine published Friday, referring to the cultural wars debate over transgender rights that Trump campaign aides saw as a key driver of support in November.
“America’s changed,” said pollster Frank Luntz, a longtime ally of Republicans who has been holding focus groups with voters to discuss immigration. “This is the one area where Donald Trump still has significant and widespread public support.”
Luntz said voters dismayed by the historically large influx of migrants under Biden are now “prepared to accept a more extreme approach.”
“Make no mistake,” he added. “The...”
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Ya think?
It was uncontrolled influx of immigrants. Unlike most of our families who came into the country legally.
Trump campaigned on this all the way back in 2016.
If not for lies, they AP wouldn’t have anything to print.
Wonderful.
Bwhahahaha !!! - That's funny stuff, I don't care who you are!!!
There was no shift.
On the other hand, it further demonstrates how the Democrat Party has been taken over by the Loony far Left, that even Frank Luntz is considered to be a Republican "ally."
That’s “our democracy” at work.
the AP has a tin ear...shift on “immigration”? nice try...you mean illegal aliens? ...the public was against it, even the RATS, back in 2015-2016 when Pres. Trump brought it to the forefront.
Anecdotally, my liberal friends (and I am surrounded by them) said out loud that Pres. Trump was saying what they were thinking.
Their first paragraph is BS
HOPEFULLY, THIS IS JUST THE VERY PRELUDE TO WHAT TRUMP IS PLANNING & WILL DO.
Biden should be hung for what he did to America. American kids and grandkids are screwed.
Ass Press apparently wasn’t reading its own polls. Not our problem.
Who says that sending the invader home is repression?
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