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A recent YouGov poll found that President Donald Trump’s administration deporting migrants to El Salvador without due process is widely unpopular.
The poll conducted between March 28 and April 1 asked 1095 U.S. adult citizens if they support or oppose the following statement: “Deporting immigrants without criminal convictions to El Salvador to be imprisoned, without letting them challenge the deportation in court.”
Only 15% of respondents said they “strongly support” and 11% said they “somewhat support” for a total of 26% supporting the move by the Trump administration to some degree. On the flip side, 46% said they “strongly oppose” and 15% said they “somewhat oppose” – meaning 61% of respondents are against the deportations and indefinite imprisonments. 13% of respondents were “unsure” how they felt.
Broken down by partisan affiliation, 32% of Republicans “strongly support” the deportations, while only 1% of Democrats and 13% of Independents felt the same. 78% of Democrats, 45% of Independents, and 18% of Republicans, meanwhile, “strongly opposed” the deportations.
The poll was largely taken before news broke this week that a migrant living
The Atlantic’s Nick Miroff reported the bombshell news on Monday night, “The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction to order his return from the megaprison where he’s now locked up.”
Previously, news had broken that an immigration lawyer had claimed in a court filing that her client, a gay hairdresser in Miami, had also been taken to one of the notorious prisons in El Salvador after having tattoos mistakenly identified as gang-related.
Read the full poll here.