other than the mass deportation question, which I think people are parsing as "rule of law" rather than "predictable atrocity", these are actually pretty dovish answers. 49% of Trump supporters want to take more refugees!
The chances of these respondents understanding the implications of that question is literally 0%
I'm horrified by the 27% of Harris supporters who want mass deportations. What the fuck?
I'm more surprised about the 55% support for immigration to alleviate labor shortages. Usually the conservative talking point on this is that shortages are made-up excuses to not hire citizens and instead pay low wages to immigrants.
The mass deportation question can be asked in a different way and get a wholly different answer. Most people would not be comfortable with the details of what this means but snuggling it in with more anondyne questions completely elides the reality.
The problem is that they don't realize those "civilian refugees" are the exact same people as the "illegals" they want to deport, because they have no fundamental understanding of national or international immigration or asylum laws.
They like hating on refugees, and you can’t do that if they’re not here
I hear so many voters say, in frustration, "just go through the proper channels" - as if immigrants just need to roll up, fill out a paper, and six months later they're in. They think it's easy to come to the US legally.
This is classic Trump double-speak. Voters hear ‘remove illegal immigrants’; but Trump, if elected, will be able to claim he has a mandate from voters to cast out mass deportations (of legal as well as illegal immigrants).
Interesting that 96% of Republicans said they want to strengthen border security, guess the 4% who said no are all politicians who sunk the bill to do just that
Beginning to think that the fundamental issue in contemporary American politics is a poor overuse of abstraction in reasoning about public outcomes.