- A new Washington Post/CNN poll shows 56% of Americans now support deporting all 11 million illegal aliens — a significant increase from 38% in 2016. The shift reflects growing alignment with President Trump’s hardline immigration stance, emphasizing national security and economic concerns.
- Support crosses party lines: 86% of Republicans, 58% of independents and even 25% of Democrats favor mass deportation. Polling expert Harry Enten links the trend to Trump’s policies, noting 49% of voters now view his immigration efforts as successful.
- Trump’s policies (workplace raids, asylum restrictions, “zero tolerance”) reframed illegal immigration as a security/economic threat. 62% of voters now call it a “major problem,” fueled by record border apprehensions in the Biden era.
(Natural News)—A new poll reveals a growing majority of Americans now support mass deportations of illegal immigrants, signaling a significant shift in public opinion since 2016. According to a Washington Post survey analyzed by CNN, 56% of voters back government efforts to deport all 11 million undocumented residents, compared to just 38% in 2016. The findings underscore a public embrace of stricter immigration policies championed by President Donald Trump, who has framed enforcement as critical to national security and economic integrity. The poll’s results highlight a historic swing in voter sentiment, coinciding with the Trump administration’s hardline stance.
Poll shows bipartisan support for stronger enforcement
The Washington Post/CNN analysis, interpreted by polling expert Harry Enten, reveals a stark shift over the past decade in how Americans view immigration enforcement. Enten noted that the 18-percentage-point jump in support for deportation reflects bipartisan agreement on the issue. Notably, 86% of Republicans and 58% of political independents now back mass deportations, with even 25% of Democrats acknowledging concerns about illegal immigration’s societal impact.
Enten attributed this change directly to Trump’s policies, emphasizing: “The American people have come a long way on this issue, much closer to Donald Trump, and I think that’s a big part of why Americans are increasingly saying the country is on the right track when comes to immigration policy.”
The poll further indicates that 49% of voters now view Trump’s immigration efforts as successful, reinforcing his administration’s focus on border security and workplace enforcement since his initial 2016 presidential campaign.
Historical context: The evolution of enforcement policy
President Trump’s immigration agenda has reshaped the national debate on enforcement since his first term. His administration’s policies, including expanded workplace raids, stricter asylum rules and the “zero tolerance” border policy, have framed illegal immigration as both a security threat and an economic burden on American workers.
Historically, immigration enforcement under George W. Bush and Barack Obama focused on criminal deportations and a limited scale system overhaul. Trump’s actions, however, broadened the scope to target all undocumented residents, aligning enforcement with his “America First” platform.
The poll’s results validate Trump’s approach, as 62% of voters now describe illegal immigration as a “major problem.” This follows record border apprehensions the last four years, exacerbating fears about job competition and public safety, particularly in rural and border communities.
A mandate for action
The polling suggests the Trump administration has successfully mobilized public opinion behind its immigration agenda amid a contentious political climate. While Democrats argue for balancing enforcement with paths to legal residency, the sum majority of voters increasingly side with mass deportation.
President Trump’s promises and policies, consolidated over two terms, appear to have created a durable coalition pushing for border security over amnesty — a shift that could redefine the immigration debate for decades.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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