Summary

An Axios-Ipsos poll shows that while two-thirds of Americans, including 93% of Republicans, support mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, support declines when specific methods are proposed.

Only 38% favor using active-duty military, 28% back diverting military funds, and just one-third support separating families or deporting those who arrived as children.

Trump’s plans for mass deportations face logistical, economic, and public opinion challenges.

Experts note abstract support for deportations fades when Americans confront the complexities of implementation.

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Hate gets easier the farther removed you are from the object of your hatred.

All want to eat sausage, no-one wants to butcher pig. Or something like that.

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Hell, most people actively avoid even seeing how sausage is made.

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The vote ratio on your comment speaks volumes.

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They are still asking the wrong questions and blissfully ignoring the elephant in the room. If you round up thousands of people there will be logistical problems:

a) you can only deport people to countries which are willing to take them.

b) you’ll have to detain them until they can be deported

Which means concentration camps. Ask Americans if they support concentration camps in their country. Because that is what is going to happen.

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Yeah that’s exactly how the concentration camps happened in Nazi Germany. The initial plan wasn’t to start starving and gassing the Jews. It was to round them up and deport them. Turns out you can’t practically deport millions of people, so they started murdering them instead.

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I think you’re missing an “n’t” in there somewhere

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Whoops, thanks. Fixed it.

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For the third time, at least.

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Well they’re already building the camp(s) in Texas. I don’t know how anyone who voted for this thought it would go down. It’s a bit late to cry “but not like that!”.

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I mean, we always have in the past. Native Americans, Japanese during wwII, waco

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Waco?

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That one was a joke

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concentration camps

Detention facilities. Or whatever bullshit they come up with to make it seem alright.

Word play is a very American Thing.

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I’d say it’s a very “thing that’s done in politics” everywhere.

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Fervently Supporting a thing you wouldn’t support if you just gave a little critical thought to the matter feels uniquely American.

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Brexit says it’s not just America.

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Aren’t right wing factions gaining ground in most countries now? No policy based off hate will be intellectual.

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One thing in common among those factions is Russian funding. Another is support by Russian troll farms. Take out the Putin regime and all those puppets’ strings will be cut. All the more reason to support Ukraine.

European countries should be imprisoning any politicians caught taking foreign funding or in-kind support.

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And doubly republican.

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Willful ignorance is a universal “value”. America is just ahead of the curve, at the moment. Counting out other countries is just prejudice.

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India with Muslims, Chinese with Uyghurs, Europeans with Muslims, Canadians with First Nations, Denmark/Greenland with natives, Myanmar and Rohingyas, Brazil with Natives. I can keep going

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Please note that Europe isn’t as prejudiced with Muslims as it could be.

Old Nazi concentration camps are not online.

I take that as a win.

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Only because you’re prejudiced.

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52 points

This just in,

Racist people dumb as shit.

More News at 11

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Immigrants made America great, and America needs immigrants to remain great.

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America hasn’t been great for anyone but rich people for quite some time now. There’s certainly worse places to be but there’s also a lot of better places regardless of which metric you evaluate that by.

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Why does US continue to attract so many immigrants across the economic scale and education level

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I generally try to avoid doing the whole “American propaganda” shtick, but in this case… I mean come on. We make some of the most popular, ubiquitous media of any country in the world, and the vast majority of it shows us loving freedom and being cool as hell.

I won’t deny that our standard of living is among the highest in the Americas, but the fact that things are getting worse all the time doesn’t seem to matter to most people

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(1) Network effect: they already have extended family there. (2) English is the world’s most common second language. (3) Residual prestige from when the US was less crap than it is now.

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I get why you’re being downvoted, but a lot of people seem to be ignoring that the US still has top tier secondary education, numerous job opportunities, and is still a major global player. On top of that the US is a very diverse country. However much we may struggle with racism and societal issues, there are large populations of people from every region/religion/language.

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