Your appear to does a lot of heavy-lifting here. Appear to whom?
> And Trump has explicitly said that citizens are next.
You have a different dictionary than I do: explicitly does not mean what you think it means.
They were being polite. The White House has admitted such:
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article30...
> "I call them homegrown criminals," Mr. Trump told Fox Noticias. "I mean, the homegrowns that grew up and something went wrong and they hit people over the head with a baseball bat. We have — and push people into subways, just before the train gets there, like you see happening sometimes. We are looking into it, and we want to do it. I would love to do that."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-homegrown-criminals-forei...