Can we please stop conflating legal and illegal immigration? Microsoft is dependent on legal immigration through the H1B and EB programs. Furthermore, there are many business who are dependent on illegal immigration and those deserve to be shutdown for exploiting a system of indentured servitude.
And that population tends to have used family-based or diversity-based pathways. Very rarely do employment-based immigrants live in mixed-status families.
You don’t seem to be aware of how distinct the different immigrant communities can be.
My friend’s wife finally got her citizenship because of all this nonsense. My wife (though not brown) is seriously considering it as well. There are many others.
At this point, opposing ICE is not about being in favor of illegal immigration, it’s about being against an abusive government agency.
Edit: to anyone doubting that ICE is racist, I propose an experiment. Leaving all of your identification at home (perfectly legal), ride the bus to, say, Nogales, AZ and then back home. Now go ask a hispanic-looking US citizen friend to join you on this journey and see what they say.
It is quite possible and even reasonable to have a goal and hate/fear the methods that some use to achieve those ends.
I don't worry about it that much. I'm much more worried that would end up arrested and held without trial for however long ice feels like it only to be deported. The deported part is not that big a deal, since I'm from Canada.
The idea that any small fuckup on my part could turn into months of hell because the US federal government doesn't really consider me a person, that scares me.