Whit Ayres’s comments in The Washington Post on the Trump Administration’s deportation policies:
Trump still faces political risks, said Republican pollster Whit Ayres. Clear majorities oppose deporting undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children, parents of children who are U.S. citizens and people who have lived in the U.S. for more than 10 years.
“There’s overwhelming support for deporting any illegal immigrant who has committed a crime, particularly a violent crime. That’s a no-brainer,” Ayres said. “But when you drill down, there’s overwhelming opposition to deporting illegal immigrants who have been here a number of years and never committed a crime or who arrived here as children or who have U.S. citizen children.”
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