A majority of US Hispanics now support the mass deportation of migrants living in the country illegally — and are evenly split over whether the feds should create large detention centers to assist in carrying the massive operation out, according to a recent poll.
A CBS News/YouGov survey conducted this month shows 53% of Hispanics are in favor of kicking out all of the undocumented immigrants who illegally enter — and 50% support the establishment of federal holding facilities to keep migrants before deportation.
Another 47% of Hispanics oppose the mass deportation plan — and 50% oppose detaining migrants as part of that process.
If such a plan is implemented, 57% of Hispanics back the involvement of local law enforcement agencies in identifying the migrants, while 43% oppose such profiling.
Former President Donald Trump in March announced that his second administration would execute the “largest mass deportation effort” in US history to detain and remove “nearly 20 million” migrants living in the country illegally.
A poll the following month from Axios found that 51% of Americans, 42% of Democrats and 41% of Latinos were in favor of those planned deportations.
Daniel Garza, president of the grassroots Latino advocacy group LIBRE Initiative, said Trump’s proposal was “within the confines of current law” and supported by Hispanics due to the chaos they currently see at the southern border.
“In the absence of good governance, what people then resort to is that the pendulum will swing the other way and opt for the alternative which is a more restrictive approach,” Garza told The Post.
“What we have right now is a very open interpretation of current policy, which is what the Biden administration is doing — and it’s failed miserably.”
Illegal border crossings have broken records since President Biden took office in January 2021, with increases to asylum claims and humanitarian parole causing the US foreign-born population to surge by 6.4 million during that period.
More than 8 million migrants are expected to be living in the US by Election Day 2024, roughly a quarter of whom are currently on track for deportation.
The Biden administration is reportedly working to provide amnesty for illegal immigrants who are married to US citizens — and has quietly dropped more than 350,000 asylum cases since 2022, allowing migrants to remain in the US outside the legal system and without fear of deportation.
Immigration surpassed inflation in January as US voters’ top concern for the 2024 election, with Trump, 78, gaining an edge on Biden, 81, among Hispanics despite his hardline border policies.
In the blue state of New York, for example, Latinos preferred Trump to Biden by a four-point margin in a January poll — and swing-state Hispanics favored the Republican over the Democrat by a six-point margin in March.
