In 2024, many voters were frustrated with the state of the southern U.S. border.

A growing share of the electorate thought the Biden administration was being too lax on illegal immigration.

And Pew Research says in 2024, roughly one in ten Democrats were in favor of a national

deportation effort.

Enter President Trump.

Americans have watched their communities destroyed by this sudden suffocating inundation

of illegal aliens.

I said, if you let them in, it's going to be hell. They are

vicious, violent criminals. These are stone, cold killers. They'll walk into your kitchen,

they'll cut your throat. These people are roaming our country. They could go into a restaurant.

They can do whatever they want. And they will kill you because they are wired that way.

Now, the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science published a multi-year study of

crime statistics. It found that undocumented immigrants are about half as likely to be arrested for

property or violent crimes and people born in the U.S., they also found no evidence of increased

criminality among undocumented immigrants in recent years. But over the past 14 months,

President Trump's Department of Homeland Security has launched a strict and oftentimes violent

crackdown on illegal immigration. While popular at first, especially among the MAGA base,

immigration and customs enforcement officials have also detained legal residents and others with protected status as part of their extensive deportation plans.

Earlier this year, immigration officials shot and killed three U.S. citizens, Renee Maclin Good and Alex Preti in Minnesota, as well as 23-year-old Rubin Ray Rodriguez in Texas.

And now polls suggest most U.S. adults think the deployment of federal immigration agents into

U.S. cities has gone too far. I'm Jen White. You're listening to the 1A podcast. Today we ask,

what do we know about where voters stand on Trump's immigration enforcement

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