Why We Must Protect All Immigrants
Originally published at Pennsylvania Policy Center on June 13, 2025. June 13, 2025 by Marc Stier When they fully understand it, many Trump voters don’t support his roundup of undocumented immigrants. Talk to them and they’ll say, “I want the criminals deported, but we didn’t vote for hardworking people who have been here for years to be thrown out of the country.” Support for Trump’s immigration policies depends largely on people believing the big lie that a substantial number of undocumented immigrants are criminals or that they are receiving government benefits, which aside from K–12 education for children, is rarely true. But there are some who say that undocumented immigrants have “violated our laws” and “jumped the line” and so should be deported. I want to reply to that objection and do so in a way that supports the belief that most Americans—including Trump supporters—hold, which is that most undocumented… Continue reading