Voters may have voted for Trump to deal with illegal immigration, but I suspect a lot of them did not vote for him to do so by abolishing due process, empowering ICE to engage in papers-please stops of US citizens, imprisoning soon-to-be-deported illegal aliens in harsh conditions (cf. "Alligator Alcatraz), deporting non-Salvadorans to prisons in El Salvador, shutting down asylum processing, deporting legally present foreigners,... Having voted for a promise to solve a problem does not mean supporting any and all measures undertaken to solve the problem.
Folks who call themselves MAGA seem to forget that some of the things that made America great in the first place were due process of law in the Anglo-Saxon legal tradition that the Founders took as given in writing the Constitution, and welcoming those fleeing persecution in other countries.
I suspect a lot of voters will be more favorably disposed to the GOP if the GOP embraces applying the rule of law, including due process rights, to immigration enforcement.
Maybe I missed something, but IIRC, all LEOs can ask for ID.
If ICE are LEOs, would they not be included in that?
If someone is not a citizen, they should have their documentation, right?
As for fleeing persecution, perhaps some are, but persecution doesn't give them license to set up larcenous schemes here, or even be here illegally. These people weren't vetted, for the most part.
Instead, we ended up with imported street gangs, cartels, and international fraud/money laundering schemes, and that's the shiny carapace over an underbelly of human trafficking, sex slavery, and worse.
Clean it out, as the law requires.
