CBS News host Margaret Brennan reacted to a poll over the weekend that showed 62% of all registered voters — Democrats, Republicans, and others — support deporting all illegal migrants.
“Homeland Security says that President Biden has already deported or repatriated more people in the past year than any year since 2010. And then, depending on the details of what’s talked about on the campaign trail, some of what Mr. Trump talks about could be illegal,” Brennan said.
“It doesn’t seem practical, in some sense, to round up children,” Brennan continued. “And then we know that the courts have questioned whether local authorities would have the ability to do it, and federal authorities don’t have the resources. So what exactly do people think they’re supporting?”
“When you measure public sentiment on this or really just about any policy, you’re getting a sense of direction. You’re getting broad brushstrokes,” Anthony Salvanto, CBS’ director of elections and surveys, said.
“A lot of folks do say yes. Again, the details of that, the specifics, you’re not going to pick that up in an aggregate public opinion,” he said.
“We are in a different era in which a lot of folks say the system as a whole is not working. And all of these, if you connect the dots through them, are part of that reaction against it, which explains some of that general sentiment for some of these policies,” Salvanto continued.
Former President Donald Trump has promised to carry out the largest mass deportation effort in the history of the U.S.
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