Most Americans want all illegals out of our country.
based on what?
Do you have an updated version of this GALLUP question?
Last week’s
Gallup poll reaffirmed what
we have known for
a long time: The vast majority of Americans want sensible solutions to immigration policy, with
65 percent of Americans believing that unauthorized immigrants should be allowed to get legal status and a pathway to citizenship. A small minority—only 19 percent—believe that unauthorized immigrants should be deported from the United States.
What would it cost if this fringe minority of Americans got their way, and the United States took the draconian step of deporting
11.3 million unauthorized immigrants from the country?
Based on previous analysis from the Center for American Progress, a mass deportation strategy would cost an average of
$10,070 per person, for a total of $114 billion to remove 11.3 million people.
This figure includes the high costs that would be required to find each and every unauthorized individual. Since two-thirds of the unauthorized population have been in the country for
more than a decade, they are well-settled into our families, communities, and schools. Finding every single person without legal status would be a logistical nightmare that would cause significant
social and emotional damage to entire communities. CAP’s $114 billion estimate also includes the cost to detain these individuals while they wait for removal, to process them through the immigration courts, and to transport them abroad.
What Would It Cost to Deport 11.3 Million Unauthorized Immigrants? - Center for American Progress
What Would It Cost to Deport 11.3 Million Unauthorized Immigrants? - Center for American Progress
Still the same five years later;
new poll conducted January 29 to February 1 by Vox and Data for Progress (DFP) found that a majority of 1,124 likely voters and an overwhelming proportion of Democrats “strongly” or “somewhat” supported offering a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants broadly (69 percent and 86 percent, respectively). That support jumps to 72 percent of likely voters and 87 percent of Democrats if you ask them specifically about “DREAMers” who were brought to the US as children. Those findings are consistent with other recent surveys on legalization, including one conducted by
Pew in June 2020.
As part of his
proposal for comprehensive immigration reform, President Joe Biden has called for creating an eight-year earned path to citizenship for immigrants who were present in the US on or before January 1, 2021, and can pass a background check and pay taxes.
Poll: Most Americans support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants