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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

If Biden really opposes Trump's mass deportation plans one thing he could do is pardon everyone who entered the country illegally more than 20 years ago or under the age of 12 or who is awaiting an asylum decision.

However, for the seven other examples tested, most voters think immigrants should not be deported. Only 31% of voters think a person with a doctoral degree from a U.S. university who overstayed their visa should be deported. Additionally, less than 1 in 4 voters think the following people should be deported: an undocumented community volunteer who has lived in the U.S. for 10 years and has no criminal record (24%), an undocumented person who has lived in the U.S. for 15 years and has U.S.-born children (24%), and an undocumented person who has lived in the U.S. for more than 10 years and owns a small business employing American workers (24%).

Even smaller percentages of voters think a person residing in the U.S. under Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from an ongoing conflict (21%), a person who has been awaiting a decision on their asylum application for three years (20%), and a person brought to the U.S. without legal status as a child 20 years ago (19%) should be deported.

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Boxo McFoxo @boxobark.ing · 03/12/2024

Unfortunately that doesn't protect them from deportation because ICE can still deport anyone they like who doesn't have some kind of residency status. They don't have to be criminals for ICE to deport them.

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