Current polling strongly suggests that most Americans’ views on illegal immigration align with President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans for foreign nationals, CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten said Wednesday.

Enten pointed to a “massive shift” in the opinions of American voters, saying they have become less welcoming when it comes to illegal immigration in recent years. He claimed that a majority of voters will likely give Trump the necessary latitude to carry out raids and deportations, as well as curb levels of illegal immigration overall.

“Feelings towards undocumented immigrants and deporting all of them have become considerably more hawkish,” Enten said in comments highlighted by Mediaite. “And I think that gives Donald Trump much more leverage to go with the American people and sort of have these hawkish, some might say harsh, different rhetoric and also issue-based, sort of going after immigrants who are here illegally. And so I think the American people are going to give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt to do what he wants to do.”

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