Americans Hand Pro-Sanctuary Dems Big Defeat: Support Sending Illegals to Sanctuary Cities
In an ideal nation for conservatives, each and every illegal alien caught crossing the border would be detained and deported back to his country of origin in a humane and timely fashion.
Unfortunately, due to our nation’s rather convoluted, and at times conflicting, immigration policies, doing so is much easier said than done.
On top of that, a recent surge of family units and migrants coached to game the system have absolutely overwhelmed Border Patrol agents and facilities with more detainees — who can’t be easily deported — than they are capable of handling.
Given the staunch refusal by Democrats to even discuss potential solutions to the growing border crisis — some refuse to even acknowledge that a crisis exists — President Donald Trump recently offered up a rather novel proposal that raised eyebrows on all sides and provoked a rather hypocritical outburst of outrage from Democrats.
Trump suggested sending illegal immigrants from detention facilities at the border to Democrat-run sanctuary cities, obviously with the intent that those jurisdictions would shoulder most of the financial burden and consequences brought about by rampant and unchecked illegal immigration.
But as it turns out, and despite the great duplicitous outcry against the proposal from some Democrats and the liberal media, more Americans support the idea of sending illegal aliens to reside in sanctuary cities than oppose it, according to a poll released by Monmouth University.
Monmouth found that 46 percent of those polled supported the idea of shipping detained illegal aliens to sanctuary cities if they couldn’t be deported, while 43 percent of respondents opposed the idea. Meanwhile, 7 percent said they didn’t know which option they’d prefer, and 4 percent said their support or opposition would be dependent on the details of the plan.
Looking at a demographic breakdown of the poll results — which, it should be noted, was slightly skewed in favor of Democrats, as most polls are — it was shown that among Republicans, 55 percent supported the idea and 40 percent opposed it, with similar results among independents, 52 percent in support and 35 percent in opposition.
Among Democratic respondents, a somewhat surprising 31 percent were in favor of settling illegal aliens in sanctuary jurisdictions, while 57 percent of Democrats were opposed to the idea.
In a related question, the pollsters asked if the fact that the idea had been put forward by Trump changed their opinion on the matter. A total of 10 percent said that fact made them more likely to support the idea, while 16 percent said it made it less likely for them to support it, but an astonishing 71 percent said Trump’s involvement in the proposal had no bearing on their opinion at all.
“I think it is difficult for the public to fully process these novel approaches, some of which were floated in a tweet,” said Patrick Murray, director of the Independent Monmouth University Polling Institute. “If the president’s aim is to keep the immigration debate off balance, it may be mission accomplished.”
Separately, the poll also asked a couple of questions about the significant number of illegal immigrants who were seeking to claim asylum, specifically with regard to a Trump administration policy requiring asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for their cases to be heard, as well as whether respondents thought the asylum-seekers were truly fleeing persecution or simply trying to skirt around the regular legal immigration policies.
When it came to whether asylum-seekers should be made to stay in Mexico or allowed entry into the U.S. while waiting for their claims to be adjudicated, 51 percent favored making them wait in Mexico, while 41 percent supported allowing them entry into the U.S.
Republicans overwhelming favored making them wait in Mexico, 83 to 12 percent, while Democrats were slightly less in favor of allowing them to enter the U.S. over remaining in Mexico, 62 to 31 percent. Independents, meanwhile, favored making asylum-seekers wait in Mexico over entering the U.S. 47 to 43 percent.
As for whether asylum-seekers were making legitimate claims or just trying to sidestep the normal process, 46 percent said they were side-stepping the process, 37 percent said the claims were legitimate and 17 percent said they didn’t know.
Seventy-one percent of Republicans said asylum-seekers were merely gaming the system compared with 13 percent who disagreed. Independents leaned toward that assumption as well, 43 to 36 percent, with 21 percent saying they didn’t know. Among Democrats, 58 percent believed the asylum-seekers’ claims of persecution, but it is noteworthy that even 30 percent of Democrats admitted that asylum-seekers were likely exploiting the system to get around the normal entry process.
As can be seen in these three separate questions — sending illegal aliens to sanctuary cities, making the asylum-seekers wait in Mexico, and judging whether asylum claims were legitimate or attempts to bypass the system — roughly a third of Democrats responded with positions that are favorable to and shared by Trump.
That should be an item of concern for Democrats.
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