Eddie Scarry of the Federalist responds to new polling about the Trump administration’s immigration policy.
Remember when all national polls said Kamala was popular? Yeah, that’s why it’s so hard to take seriously a new CNN one showing that a majority of Americans now supposedly say the Trump administration has “gone too far … when it comes to deporting immigrants living in the United States illegally.”
According to the poll, 52 percent of respondents agreed the president’s crackdown on deportations has been excessive (though in what sense, the poll doesn’t say). It’s a 7-point increase from when the question was asked in February.
I’m skeptical that even a quarter of Americans (as in, actual U.S. citizens, not just whoever picked up CNN’s phone call) have strong opinions one way or another about the alien removals from the country, but if even just one person is upset by it, they can take it up with Democrats. They’re the reason Trump has had to get creative in this whole process.
Let’s go back to 2016 when Donald Trump, a reality TV game show star, was elected against all odds to be the first genuine president of the United States to not have any political or military experience. And he did it in large part with a very simple slogan: “Build the wall.” Democrats said no and called Trump supporters racists.
The president tried making a deal anyway. A few billion dollars for walls along the southern border and in exchange he would agree to permanently legalize the “dreamers,” roughly 1 million younger illegal aliens given temporary protection by the Obama administration to stay in the U.S. Democrats said no and called Trump supporters racists.
When he tried keeping the obscene numbers of migrants pushing their way into the U.S. at bay with law enforcement, Democrats cried and accused the administration of kidnapping children. Then they called Trump supporters racists.
