Posted on 07/01/2018 11:02:59 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Perhaps no Trump policy has provoked more emotional reaction than the practice of separating illegal border crossers from the children they brought with them to the U.S. There's no need to recount the number of times critics have called the president a Nazi, or a fascist, or just plain cruel.
The administration has now stopped the separation policy. But it plans to continue prosecuting illegal border crossers and, when those crossers bring children illegally into the U.S., will "detain families together during the pendency of immigration proceedings," according to an administration court filing in California.
That of course will not satisfy the critics, and legal challenges are sure to follow. But if a new poll is correct, it appears the Trump administration, after an enormously damaging few weeks, has ended up squarely on the side of the majority of American voters.
The new survey is a Harvard-Harris poll, by former Clinton pollster and strategist Mark Penn. It was conducted June 24-25, with 1,448 registered voters.
On the issue of separations, Penn began with a threshold question: "Do you think that people who make it across our border illegally should be allowed to stay in the country or sent home? Sixty-four percent (83 percent of Republicans, 47 percent of Democrats, and 66 percent of independents) said they should be sent home. Thirty-six percent said they should be allowed to stay.
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Send the kids back to their homes as quickly as possibly. Within the hour, would be my preference. Let’s not be cruel. Let’s not keep them here in this cruel and intolerant land. Let them return to the place of their birth where they will be far from our harsh laws.
Overwhelming support for Trump on immigration, yet the GOP can’t surrender fast enough. Their paymasters/owners love that cheap labor. “Our values”, you know.
How about using a “clearing house” court to vet the initial claims and then send those whose claims obviously have no merit packing immediately. Personally, I’d favor immediate repatriation of anyone who enters our country anywhere other than a manned border crossing.
Agreed. Let’s send them back to the multicultural Peoples’ paradises they left.
There has always been 75% support for border and interior enforcement.
The Bush League Republicans were determined to deny US those.
For those who don’t want to be separated from their (legitimate) children, don’t try an illegal border crossing. There are designated points of entry for refugees from tyranny elsewhere, and these are well known to all real refugees.
The historical significance of the Trojan Horse is not lost on today’s state of affairs in the world. These illegal border crossings are attempts to subvert the United States and its standing in the world.
Even Bill Clinton in the 1990s said many of the same things Trump does now on illegal immigrants. Yet the left pretends that what was mainstream even among leading Democrats two decades or less ago is somehow evil “Nazism” now. How irrational do you have to be to believe this?
36% are in favor of open borders migration? We’re so screwed.
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