Phoenix, Arizona — Aureliano Dominguez has run his scorching canine stand alongside a busy Phoenix road for 33 years.
A authorized immigrant and U.S. citizen, Dominguez agrees the undocumented immigrants who commit crimes must be deported.
“There’s unhealthy apples wherever on the earth,” Dominguez instructed CBS Information. “Get these unhealthy apples out.”
Nonetheless, he worries {that a} mass deportation, as former President Donald Trump is promising, may harm his enterprise and others.
“Lots of people might imagine, ‘Oh, it is only a scorching canine vendor.’ However in actuality, it is a domino impact. These folks, they spend cash, they spend the paycheck,” Dominguez stated.
safe the U.S.-Mexico border — and what to do about immigrants, authorized and unlawful, as soon as they enter the U.S. — stay prime issues for voters.
In keeping with a CBS Information ballot taken in Could, 52% of Arizona voters stated current immigrants from Mexico and Latin America had made life in Arizona worse, in comparison with 35% of voters when requested the identical query in July of 2020.
And the way Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris reply these issues is sharply completely different.
Trump — who has unfold false tales about immigrant-fueled crime and described immigrants in derogatory phrases — has promised to make use of the army to expel 11 million undocumented immigrants.
“These folks need to be taken out and introduced again to the nation from the place they got here,” Trump stated in a Sept. 27 speech.
A CBS Information ballot final month discovered that 53% of voters are in favor of Trump’s plan, with 47% in opposition to it.
Harris, who needs better funding for border safety and a authorized pathway to citizenship for some undocumented migrants, has denounced Trump’s plan.
“How is that going to occur?” Harris requested whereas talking on the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 18. “Large raids? Large detention camps? What are they speaking about?”
Republican rancher and Trump supporter John Ladd echoed that.
“How are you going to spherical up 20 million folks?” Ladd requested.
However Ladd favors a get-tough strategy to immigration. He sees folks illegally cross the border on daily basis onto his 16,000-acre ranch.
“That is mine,” Ladd stated of his land. “That is my privateness. That is America. Do not mess with me.”
Nonetheless, he believes law-abiding immigrants deserve to remain.
“If they have been right here and so they’re productive, there must be some consideration,” Ladd stated.
Dominguez, in the meantime, continues to be contemplating his vote. He says he is heard Democrats promise they’re going to clear up the immigration subject for years.
“I am a registered Democrat, however I am not 100% positive,” Dominguez stated. “They promise, and nothing has occurred. So what is the distinction?”