Sixty-two percent of registered voters in the U.S. — including a third of registered Democrats — support the mass deportation of illegal aliens, according to a CBS / YouGov poll conducted last week.
“A nearly six in 10 majority of voters say they would favor, in principle, a new government program to deport all undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. illegally,” CBS wrote.
“That isn’t purely partisan, it includes a third of Democrats. It rises to nine in 10 Republicans,” the outlet said.
The support for mass deportations comes as the U.S. has experienced record levels of illegal immigration at both the southern and northern borders.
According to data tracked by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), border agents “encountered” 1.9 million illegal aliens from Oct. 2023 to April.
That puts 2024 on track to see far higher levels of illegal immigration than 2023, when DHS reported 3.2 million encounters for the entire fiscal year.
Those numbers, however, are far smaller than the true level of illegal immigration, as they only account for illegal aliens who make contact with border officials.
