Overwhelming number of NYers and Latino residents want illegal-migrant criminals booted: poll

An overwhelming number of New Yorkers support deporting illegal-migrant criminals, a new poll reveals.Nearly 80% of New Yorkers statewide told Siena College pollsters that they back kicking out undocumented migrants who have been convicted of a crime, with that figure including 69% of Democrats and 71% of Latinos, the survey released Monday says.The new numbers come as federal immigration officials have been conducting high-profile illegal-migrant arrests around the Empire State in the last week.Siena also asked registered voters in the poll more specifically whether New York should support President Trump’s deportation initiatives, to which they were less enthusiastic.Of the roughly 800 voters surveyed, 48% said New York should support the feds compared to 31% who think the Empire State should oppose the president’s efforts.Fewer than two months ago, another Siena poll found that more than half of that survey’s respondents said New York should support Trump’s promises to deport people who are in the country illegally.Siena Poll spokesman Steve Greenberg wrote in a statement of the latest poll, “New Yorkers continue to say – at least Republicans and independents do – that the state should support federal efforts to deport illegal migrants.”Gov.Kathy Hochul has refused to lay out a clear strategy herself on immigration despite promising one in December as Trump was getting ready to take office.While she says she supports going after migrants with criminal records, Hochul has remained silent – or apparently twisted the truth – on sanctuary cities in New York that limit local cooperation with federal immigration authorities.“If they’ve been convicted of a crime here; if they have a warrant for an arrest, there is cooperation from state and local officials — that is nothing new,” Hochul said on MSNBC’s “The Weekend” on Sunday.

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