CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan seemed completely baffled on her Sunday morning show, Face The Nation, after a recent poll appeared to suggest that a majority of Americans support deporting all illegal immigrants in the country. .
Brennan noted how President Joe Biden has deported and repatriated more people in the past year than in any year since 2010, noting that such deportations were legally and practically complex.
The CBS News/YouGov poll, conducted June 5-7, found that 62 percent of registered voters favored a government program to deport all illegal immigrants.
‘Homeland Security says that President Biden has already deported or repatriated more people in the last year than in any other year since 2010. And then, depending on the details of what is talked about on the campaign trail, some of what he talks about Mr. Trump could be illegal,” Brennan said.
CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan seemed completely taken aback after a recent poll suggested that a majority of Americans support deporting all illegal immigrants.
Biden’s recent executive actions at the southern border are aimed at managing asylum claims and controlling border crossings more effectively.
“In one sense, it doesn’t seem practical to corral children. And then we know that courts have questioned whether local authorities would have the ability to do it and federal authorities don’t have the resources. So what exactly do people think they are supporting?
Brennan questioned what people thought they were supporting, given that courts have raised questions about the viability of local authorities to carry out such actions and federal resources are limited.
The poll also showed that a majority of voters supported Biden’s recent executive action on the southern border.
About 180,000 immigrants crossed the southern border in April, about 6,000 people each day.
Anthony Salvanto, left, director of elections and polls for CBS, explained that support for deportation was predominantly among Trump supporters, although some Democrats also backed it.
Anthony Salvanto, director of elections and polls for CBS, explained that while support for deportation was predominant among Trump supporters, some Democrats also backed the idea.
Salvanto emphasized that public sentiment captured in polls often reflects broad opinions rather than detailed, specific policies.
‘When you measure public sentiment about this or any other policy, you get a sense of direction. You’re getting broad strokes,’ Salvanto explained.
He also explained that many voters believe the current system is not working, fueling support for drastic measures to come into force.
“A lot of people say ‘yes.’ Again, the details of that, the specifics, are not going to be captured in aggregate public opinion,” he said.
Trump has proposed using the National Guard to deport illegal immigrants, planning what he calls “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” He is photographed at the border in February.
President Joe Biden listens to border patrol agents on a visit to the US-Mexico border in Brownsville, Texas, in February.
‘We are in a different era where many people say the system as a whole doesn’t work. And all of these, if you connect the dots through them, are part of that backlash, which explains part of that general feeling towards some of these policies,’ Salvanto continued.
Brennan admitted that he believed Americans generally want the government to take decisive action and “do something.”
Trump has proposed using the National Guard to deport illegal immigrants, planning what he calls “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.”
In contrast, Biden’s recent executive actions at the southern border aim to manage asylum claims and control border crossings more effectively.
The Biden administration has introduced measures to suspend the entry of migrants across the southern border once the average number of border encounters in a day reaches 2,500 for seven days in a row.
The idea is to facilitate the expulsion of newly arrived immigrants if they have no legal basis to remain in the United States.
