I think quite a bit of the concern is the lack of due process, the jailing of people for an an indefinite period in a random country, the detention of legal permanent residents and US citizens, the willful disregard of court orders, the use of immigration as a cudgel to attack universities, defining protected speech as 'illegal' and grounds for detention, deportation, or imprisonment.

these things and others make one not like the other at all

put another way, was it really worth trashing the constitution and due process to get a 29% increase in deportation rates?

This increase in the last 6 months is concerning, to me. Especially when we realize the vast majority, and even more so now, are non-criminal “No Threat Level”, as designated by ICE themselves. Check out the map at the bottom to see how many people with zero criminal history are being held daily in each state. It should be concerning, and I think these numbers need to be shouted from the rooftops that things are going in a bad direction here

IMO, you should consider only the ICE numbers, not the CBP numbers. The CBP numbers are people being turned away at the border, which is a different category of action than arresting people already living in the US (sometimes for many years).

If you look just at the ICE numbers, the difference is much more stark: a 3.5x increase.

I do think the Web site here could do a better job of clarifying this.

The concern has never, ever been about amount. It's always been about the methods that employ violence and a disruption of the social order.

Under Trump, the agency in question now has an annual budget on the scale of the Apollo program or the Manhattan Project.

So: what do you think is about to happen?

In case you missed it, congress just gave ICE an unprecedented $175 billion. They want this to escalate much, much further.