Around six in ten registered voters, including one-third of Democrats, would favor the U.S. government deporting all illegal immigrants, according to a new poll.
The CBS News/YouGov poll published on Sunday found that 62% of registered voters support a new national program to deport all illegal immigrants, similar to a plan that has been proposed by former President Donald Trump, who promised to carry out the “largest deportation” operation in American history if he is re-elected. A majority of those surveyed also support giving local law enforcement the power to identify illegal immigrants living in the U.S.
The poll surveyed 1,615 registered voters across the U.S. between June 5 and 7 and “oversampled” people in the seven battleground states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
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