That's not what's happening. There wouldn't be the backlash if they were primarily deporting "the worst of the worst", as they promised, using due process. Instead they're targeting everyone, including people here legally and in many cases U.S. citizens, without due process, in the cruelest and most over-the-top way possible.

I have a friend whose parents were just (incorrectly) detained by ICE, and had to pay a $3000 administrative fee to be released.

That _is_ the extremism. It's here.

Even trying to follow the existing law is punishable by exile without trial. You can go to all your legally appointed court dates, follow every rule in the book, and get snatched and deported from the courtroom the next minute.

> the idea of deporting people who have no legal status in this country is immediately branded Nazi

It's not just that idea though. Plenty of presidents have done that without pushback. It's that idea combined with:

* Rhetoric dehumanizing the immigrants

* Raiding churches, courts, jobs, etc

* Revoking legal status of immigrants

* Reducing training time for new hires

* Detaining U.S. citizens and threatening them

* Saying it'll help the U.S. citizens, when data shows it doesn't

> the idea of deporting people who have no legal status in this country is immediately branded Nazi

Because that idea consists of harming someone over their birth circumstances, rather than any objective harm they may have done.

People have been deported for decades but the manner in which deportations occur is important. There’s a world of difference between law enforcement and these brownshirts.

My great-grand parents woke one day with status of illegals. Shortly after that they have been included in mass deportations to Poland.

Some people have asked how something like that could happened. Thanks for your comment. Now I can sand them this link as an answer.