No. of Recommendations: 2
I think most people on either side of the aisle have no problem with removing unauthorized residents, in general.
There are certainly some people on the Democratic/left side of the aisle that believe that. There are others that do not - that believe that unauthorized residents who have been here for a while without doing anything wrong apart from their immigration status should be given a path to citizenship. And I think that as a general matter, most of the people who are actively objecting to ICE at this moment are far more likely to fall into the latter camp. Some in the former camp might be perfectly supportive of ICE's current policy generally, though perhaps unhappy with some specific details.
I thought it came through in context in other parts of my post, but to be clear, there is no universal belief on immigration that all Democrats or leftists hold, and my comments were intended to primarily address the folks who are the strongest critics of the Administration's current immigration policies.
