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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Josh Marcus

Six in 10 Americans oppose deporting migrants who haven’t committed crimes to El Salvador prison

A majority of Americans oppose some of Donald Trump’s most controversial immigration-related actions like deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members to a Salvadoran mega-prison without due process, according to a new survey. However, they remain supportive of the president’s overall immigration agenda.

Sixty-one percent of respondents told YouGov earlier this week they oppose or strongly oppose the hundreds of deportations to El Salvador, most of which the Trump administration has carried out using the emergency Alien Enemies Act, a wartime law that allows the government to summarily deport non-citizens.

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