Forty-six percent of Republicans support deploying the military to conduct mass deportation raids and detaining immigrants in camps. Nearly half of Republican voters believe the military should be used to detain undocumented immigrants in camps until they can be deported, a new poll has found.
President-elect Donald Trump has already suggested that he would deploy the military to support immigration raids, as well as use a law from 1798 to place immigrants in camps. While 46 percent of Republicans support deploying the military in the immigrant operations, only 19 percent of independents and eight percent of Democrats back the idea.
The survey found that Americans with authoritarian views were about six times more likely to support putting undocumented immigrants in camps, compared to those who don’t support authoritarianism, by a margin of 48 percent to eight percent. The poll also found that “voters who score very high or high on the Right-Wing Authoritarianism Scale (RWAS) report strongly supporting Trump (82 percent), while those voters who score very low or low overwhelmingly supported [Vice President Kamala] Harris (79 percent),” according to PRRI.
The president of the polling company was taken aback by the results. “I guess the good news is that three-quarters of the country rejects this idea that we should be putting immigrants in the country illegally into internment camps guarded by the military,” he added.
