About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported

About three-in-ten U.S. residents (28%) are immigrants or are U.S. born and have at least one immigrant parent. In 2024, immigrants made up 15% of the country’s population, and second-generation Americans were another 13%, according to a Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. That amounts to an estimated 93 million people.

And they're trying to house 100,000 detainees