A majority of New Yorkers now support President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to conduct mass deportations of illegal migrants, a new poll shows.
Across the state, 54% of residents say New York should support Trump’s deportation policy, and only 35% said the state should oppose it, the Siena College poll found.
Nearly half of Latinos, 47%, support the plan, as do most white and black residents: 56% of white people and 51% of black people.
Even more eye-popping, a significant chunk of self-described liberals, nearly 30%, said they support the deportations.
The majority of people who live in the city, suburbs, and upstate areas are also supportive, the poll showed.
By political affiliation, 38% of Democrats and 87% of Republicans support the deportations. A majority of independents, 54%, also support the plan.
Along gender lines, men were more likely to be on board at 61%, but almost half of women, 49%, were also in favor of the deportations. Only 31% of men opposed them, compared to 38% of women.
The poll surveyed 834 registered voters between December 2 through 5. The margin of error is about four points.
The second Trump administration has plans for a massive deportation operation to remove criminal illegal migrants and potentially others as well.
In New York, criminal migrants have been arrested for committing horrific crimes, including raping women and children and beating up NYPD officers.
New York City has already spent about $6.1 billion on the migrant crisis, according to city data, and is projected to spend up to $12 billion through September of next year.
The city has scrambled to house and feed the hundreds of thousands of new migrants, opening hundreds of emergency shelters.
Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, has been clear that the crisis is an unsustainable emergency.
“This issue will destroy New York City,” Adams said last year. “We’re getting 10,000 migrants a month. … Every community in this city is going to be impacted.”
Adams threatened to dramatically slash the city’s budget, freezing police hiring, cutting school funding, and closing libraries on Sundays, but many of those cuts were reversed as the city received more state funding and started forcing migrants out of free housing after a certain period.
Across the country, there are now nearly 7.8 million illegal migrants, federal data shows.
Of those, a total of 662,586, just around 8.6%, have been convicted of crimes or have charges pending, according to ICE data through July 21.
President-elect Trump’s appointed “border czar,” Tom Homan, claimed the number is much higher — he said there are “over 1.5 million convicted criminal aliens in this country with orders for removal who we’ll be looking for.”
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