The issue of family separation reveals deep divisions over not just immigration as an issue, but over views of immigrants, themselves – and over what their treatment signals about America. The divisions hinge partly on partisanship but also heavily on views of President Trump, in particular. The president’s strongest backers – who call themselves “Trump supporter[s], period” — are dramatically more favorable toward the separation policy, punishment for illegal entrants, more suspicious that most would-be immigrants are criminals, and far more skeptical that reports from detention centers are accurate than is the public as a whole. And the size of their ranks is largely unchanged over recent months. CONT.
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