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You make it sound like these policies are overwhelmingly popular, but they are not https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/30/politics/trump-poll-immigration-deportati

• bko 1y ago
  This is the phrasing of the question: > "Do you think Donald Trump has gone too far, has been about right, or has not gone far enough when it comes to deporting immigrants living in the United States illegally?" 52% said too far. If you phrased the question something like "do you think the federal government has done enough, too much or not enough to deport illegal immigrants" you would get much different results. Or even including Donald Trump in the question is leading. And using "immigrants living in the US illegally" gives you a much different response as illegal aliens. All surveys are biased, but this one could be improved on so many levels. Look at a much simpler survey about law enforcement attitudes and you'll see, especially in high crime neighborhoods, people want more policing not less: https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/88476/how_do_people_in_high-crime_view_the_police.pdf https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/88476/...
  • tdeck 1y ago
    You're just moving the goalpost now. Your original argument was that only the media and "terminally online" people have a problem with this. If that were the case, the wording you describe shouldn't matter.