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According to a new Rasmussen Reports poll, Americans’ support for deportations has experienced a sharp decline.
Only 41 percent of likely U.S. voters think the government is "not aggressive enough" in deporting illegal immigrants, a sharp drop from a majority of 56 percent in June 2016 and a high of 62 percent in April 2015.
Thirty-two percent (32%) say the government is now “too aggressive” with its deportations, compared to just 11 percent last summer.
Even along party lines, support for deportations has dropped.
While most Republicans continue to feel the government is not being aggressive enough, support for deportation efforts dropped 20 percentage points from 81 percent in June 2016 to 61 percent in February 2017.
Fifty-two percent (52%) of Democrats feel the government is too aggressive, as opposed to 21 percent who say it is not aggressive enough.
The sharp dive in support for deportations may be a result of the hysterical media coverage of the recent immigration raids.
Federal immigration officials made it clear that the raids targeted criminal illegal immigrants who had been convicted of serious crimes such as homicide and rape.
The media portrayed the raids as the government rounding up innocents and tearing families apart.
While support for deportations in general has declined, an overwhelming majority of voters (81%) favor a plan for mandatory deportation of illegal immigrants convicted of felonies in the U.S.
The Trump administration on Monday rolled out a new set of guidelines for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to deal with illegal immigration.
The memos issued by Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly include provisions to hire more personnel and rid of any classes or categories of removeable aliens, expanding the number of illegal immigrants that federal immigration agents can target for deportation.
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