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Paige Fusco

GZERO Exclusive Poll: How do voters feel about deportations without due process?

Donald Trump’s promise to secure the southern border helped win him the White House. But as his immigration crackdown takes shape, some who supported reducing migration are now questioning his methods—particularly the recent deportation of over 250 migrants to a high-security prison in El Salvador without due process. In a nationwide survey GZERO conducted with Echelon polling, we found that 59% of voters believe immigrants suspected of being in the US illegally should have the right to appear before a judge before being deported.

“Everything is political” is personal: the NYC migrant crisis

“Do you know,” Jhon asked me, shivering slightly in the lengthening afternoon shadows of New York’s Penn Station, “do you know if we can stay here – in America?”

Jhon is a wiry 42-year-old construction worker who fled Ecuador a month ago with his wife and four children. The recent surge of narco-violence there had gotten so bad, he said, that the local school switched to virtual classes for the safety of the students and their parents.

Now, after a trying journey by foot, boat, bus, and train, he was standing in the middle of New York City, bewildered but hopeful.

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