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by Larrikin 283 days ago
Republican voters are not most Americans
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see: https://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/HHP...

Note that what I said was that most americans do not support "it's fine to people to violate immigration laws and come here to work, as long as you don't cause trouble". That's not the same as "ICE raids as currently implemented" or even "don't offer current pathway to citizenship for current undocumented workers".

The difference is more about the appetite for aggressive enforcement than the underlying policy. There is little appetite in either party for increasing the volume of legal immigration.

Also, you can’t lump non-voters in with the immigration proponents. Multiple studies have found that Trump would’ve won by an even larger margin if everyone would have voted: https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5447450/trump-2024-elec...; https://data.blueroseresearch.org/hubfs/2024%20Blue%20Rose%2...