CBS Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan seemed to be taken aback by a new poll showing nearly two-thirds of Americans favor the deportation of all undocumented migrants.

Speaking with Anthony Salvanto — who oversees CBS News polls — Brennan cited the finding from the network’s just-released poll which showed 62 percent of all Americans support “in principle, a new government program to deport all undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.”

Brennan noted that, according to statistics from the Department of Homeland Security, “President [Joe] Biden has already deported or repatriated more people in the past year than any year since 2010.” She went on to argue that many of former President Donald Trump’s proposals about the border face major hurdles.

“Homeland Security says that President Biden has already deported or repatriated more people in the past year than any year since 2010,” Brennan said. “And then, depending on the details of what’s talked about on the campaign trail, some of what Mr. Trump talks about could be illegal. It doesn’t seem practical, in some sense, to round up children. And then we know that the courts have questioned whether local authorities would have the ability to do it. And federal authorities don’t have the resources. So what exactly do people think they’re supporting?”

“When you measure public sentiment on this — or really, just about any policy — you’re getting a sense of direction,” Salvanto replied. “You’re getting broad brush strokes. But those kinds of details, that’s often up to the legislatures and the courts.”

He added, “We are in a different era in which a lot of folks say the system as a whole is not working. And all of these, if you connect the dots through them, are part of that reaction against it, which explains some of that general sentiment for some of these policies.”

“It’s really just kind of a ‘Do something,'” Brennan told Salvanto — who agreed.

Watch above, via CBS.

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