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What? How are you expecting 3000 people to investigate 15,000 crimes and arrest 15,000 people in a month? The hard part of making an arrest isn't handcuffing the guy and driving him away, you need to figure out who committed the crime!
Many Republicans want to deport all the illegal immigrants! Even if they haven't committed any crimes. It's a whole thing. They have a lot of arguments for it They may be bad arguments, but if you're going to make this point to said Republicans you need to engage with those arguments.
Many other republicans and centrists only want to deport 'migrant criminals' and are uncomfortable uprooting the lives of people who aren't bothering anyone. Which is why Trump focuses on the people from 'jails and insane asylums' and vacillates about who exactly should be deported. But the people running ICE and the people you're arguing with here mostly just want to deport them all.
I agree with (c), and agree with (d) insofar as Trump and many allies don't want the political backlash it'd create to actually deport them all, but to say their sole goal is 'to intimidate and cause chaos' is reductive. The Trump Administration is not a singular coherent entity, you can't reason out their goals by assuming their actions are well thought through. Some people inside the admin really want to deport them all, and tend to have control over and focus more on ICE or immigration policy. And, yeah, want to intimidate the city libs and use the chaos to signal to potential illegal immigrants it's not worth coming. And often don't understand that their theater isn't the same as the real thing. Some people inside the admin don't want to deport them all, and when combined with business interests are able to push back against e-verify and let the hawks have some theater as a treat. And Trump's an entertainer, and 'sending ICE to Minneapolis' is made for TV in a way 'prevent illegal immigration with electronic forms' isn't.
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