Shock Poll: 59% Back Trump On Deportation of Illegals

Investor's Businness Daily ^ | Aug 31, 2015, 6:58 pm ET | IBD Editorials

[Red Steel]

Immigration: When Donald Trump proposed mandatory deportation of illegal aliens, pundits and politicians on both sides of the political aisle were appalled. But on this issue it looks like Trump has the public on his side.

The fire from the right was almost as fierce as that from the left. "It's not conservative and it's not realistic and it does not embrace American values," said Jeb Bush.

Sen. Lindsey Graham called it "absolute gibberish."

Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer called the idea "crackpot" and "morally obscene."

But the prize for overheated rhetoric goes to Hillary Clinton, who said Trump wants to "literally pull people out of their homes and their workplaces, round them up, put them, I don't know, in buses, boxcars, in order to take them across our border."

So what do these folks say about the fact that the majority of Americans back Trump on this?

The latest IBD/TIPP Poll asked 913 adults coast to coast if they "support or oppose mandatory deportation of illegal immigrants in the U.S." Not surprisingly, 87% of Trump supporters back the proposal.

What's surprising is that 59% of the overall public does as well. Mandatory deportation gets majority support in all age groups except 18-24, every income group, among both women and men, at every level of educational achievement, and in rural, urban and suburban regions.

More interesting still is the fact that 64% of independents and 55% of moderates support deportation.

Even among Hispanics, the poll found 40% backed mandatory deportation

[GOPJ]

Perhaps the next president can call the program "Operation Went Back"?

LOL - Quick on the uptake Null ...

[bigredkitty1]

As a native Texan, I have seen the decline of my once great state. Vast amounts of taxpayer-funded resources are wasted at the city, county, and state levels on the illegal alien hordes invading year after year. All of them and their git should be rounded up and shipped back across the border. They are not my responsibility and should be my financial liability. If that makes me racist, so be it.

[American Quilter]

NO, they`ll self deport. Just make it illegal and financially crippling to employ them and for them to get any goobermint ‘gi`me dat’, freebies.

Absolutely right. They'd be streaming back across the border in short order. The only ones we'd have to forcibly deport are the convicted felons who get their money through crime and therefore don't care about a legal job or a government handout.

[American Quilter]

I should add that my grandkids, in the San Jose CA area have had waves and waves of head lice infestation the last few years.

Eeeeeeeewww--I grew up in San Jose! Fortunately I left 30 years ago. It used to be such a lovely place to live....

[American Quilter]

Damn Good Idea; 250k per day, per illegal employee, for first offense. Second offense is 500k per day, per illegal employee. Plus all company OWNERS, CEO’s, CAO’s, contractors and sub-contractors are subject to 5 years in prison, on a chain gang responsible for construction and maintenance of the walls on both the Southern Boarder and Northern boarder. Fines to be charged and paid for all court costs.

I like it.

[DoughtyOne]

End all the perks. They’ll go home.

We’re saps.

Anyone who uses the word “Boxcar” on this topic is trying to compare another person to Hitler. That’s nonsense.

Treat them humanely, but move em out...

I agree.

[stephenjohnbanker]

It means you don’t want your country turned into a 3rd world hell hole, full of illiterate, uneducated slobs.

[Dante3]

Good comment.

[GOPJ]

It’s an outrage that liberal elites would bankrupt our country in order to buy new voters.

[Democratic-Republican]

>> "NO, they`ll self deport. Just make it illegal and financially crippling to employ them and for them to get any goobermint ‘gi`me dat’, freebies.

Absolutely right. They'd be streaming back across the border in short order. The only ones we'd have to forcibly deport are the convicted felons who get their money through crime and therefore don't care about a legal job or a government handout."

I believe there is a real simple way to handle this. First step is an Article I Section 8 Uniform Rule Of Naturalization law signed by the President, followed by a Constitutional Amendment which could probably be ratified before the likely two years for a case to make it to the Extreme Court. The Language is simple ...

No person that enters the United states illegally, nor their offspring, shall ever be entitled to citizenship. No exceptions.

The wording should be fine tuned to eliminate all wiggle room for "anchor babies" by actual Constitutional scholars ( Ann Coulter would suffice ), not DC bureaucrats, political hacks or media schmucks. But you get the general idea.

Now once the reality of this permeates down to the streets, then there would be a stampede to the exit doors of those who really want to become citizens, i.e., the good ones as Trump says. Those that remain behind would be the ones that never planned on being citizens, e.g., gangbangers, criminals, and malcontents. These are the actual ones that can be targeted for deportation, at our leisure. The plan will evolve later again as the overall picture becomes clearer.

This can't do bullsh!t never seems to come up when they order huge evacuations for hurricanes ( a good parallel to this strategy ). They are willing to believe we can control the climate but we can't manage to deport our invaders. We can clear the skies and ground every airplane within a single day, and we even send up multi-million dollar fighter jets to escort every plane that has a drunk passenger, but we can't do this? We are ruled by liars and incompetents.

[kearnyirish2]

No politician (from either side) wants the Democrat media tearing him/her to shreds; the way in which Sarah Palin was completely marginalized in ‘08, and Romney in 2012 (for simply being a straight white guy) was terrifying to all politicians who realize it could be done to ANYONE.

[generally]

Not a shock to me.

I think the remaining 41% are either:
1. illegals
2. family members of illegals
3. employers of illegals.
4. politicians who want the illegal votes

There really is not a lot of support for keeping them here. It’s like asking whether you want some fat stranger you’ve never met to climb into the overloaded lifeboat that you built yourself. Get outta my boat! I worked hard to build it and now you want me to share it. Sorry. My resources are limited and they go to immediate family first, very close friends second.

[generally]

IIRC, I heard stats that said 75% of all households where the parents were not born here are on some form of welfare. Hello lefties! You’re always talking about “sustainability”. Well this is unsustainable.

[MSF BU]

There are many individuals too lazy to do their own chores I agree. Cleaning the house and mowing the lawn among them. The problem is when the business models won’t work without illegal labor.

[ek_hornbeck]

So much for the rhetoric from Bush and Rubio that “most Republicans want comprehensive immigration reform.” That’s wishful thinking on their part: these 59% represent the Republican base (plus a fair number of independents and what’s left of “blue dog” Democrats) who are solidly opposed to a “path to citizenship” for illegals. Those Republicans supporting a “path to citizenship” are in the wrong party.

[Theodore R.]

The 41 percent will outwork and outvote the 59 percent. Been doing that for years

[nomad]

All the more reason to add the ban on largesse as financially gutting companies that employ them will only increase those numbers.

[stevie_d_64]

Yep, yep and yep...

Makes you wonder why now it is the political third rail???

Obviously there are too many cowards in elected office, and when you call them on it, they, along with their constituencies that believe their coward is better than your coward, it is a wonder this country still functions...

But obviously it is functioning on one or maybe two cylinders...

[GOPJ]

Well this combat vet cannot get work in Texas for not speaking Spanish

Hang in there - we're going to get our country back ...

[GOPJ]

...it is a wonder this country still functions...

True - absolutely true...