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The majority of American citizens, including those of Latin originthey support the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants promoted by Donald Trump, according to a survey by the YouGov firm for CBS News collected by the EFE news agency.
Specifically, the survey found that of the majority of registered voters, 62% are in favor of a new national program to deport undocumented immigrants, while 38%, meanwhile, expressed their disagreement.
And as for Latinos, 53% said they were in favor of mass deportation. On the contrary, 47% said they were against. Among African-American voters, 47% were in favor and 53% were against; The group that was most in favor of the expulsion of undocumented immigrants was white people, with 67% and 33% against.
According to what was announced to the media, such as Minnesota Today, the survey was conducted between June 5 and 7 among 1,615 registered voters and has a margin of error of +/- 3.8 points.
It is not the only survey that was carried out to find out the opinion of citizens about this measure. Last April, the company Axios revealed that the majority of Americans support a mass deportation of undocumented immigrants, and 45% of Latinos.
These surveys have been published as the former president donald trump He has reiterated that if he wins the presidency in November, he will undertake a mass deportation, focusing on those immigrants who have criminal records, and that if necessary, he will use the National Guard.
Juan José Gutiérrez, director of the Coalition for the Full Rights of Immigrants, assured La Opinión that “he is not surprised that in the 21st century polls are manipulated in favor of repressive measures against immigrants.”Immigrant workers who represent a very important economic contribution in taxes and contributions to the country”.
On the other hand, he added: “We already experienced this dark movie intensely in 1994 when the project began to convert Proposition 187 into law, which sought prohibit health services and education for the undocumented in California.”
“That survey of CBS News “It is nothing more than crude and plain anti-immigrant propaganda, while for 40 years, undocumented workers have not been given the slightest recognition,” he said finally, although he also acknowledged that he does not doubt that there are Latinos who are in favor of a mass deportation.
The same medium collected several testimonies. Another of them is that of Dr. John Hernández, a retired professor from the Roosevelt High School in East Los Angeles, who considered the results of the poll of the CBS News.
“The Republican Party is pushing these notions that our community is in favor of mass deportations, knowing that Latinos are projected to be 14.7% of eligible voters in November,” he added.
Finally, he made reference to the results of a survey by the UnidosUS organization, which reveals that one of the concerns of Latinos is migration, but that they do not believe in mass deportation but rather that “there must be a path towards citizenship”. Then, he concluded: “In that poll, Latino voters are in favor of asylum and policies for a legal immigration”.
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