Yes. Arresting people for civil infractions (such as overstaying a visa, or even citizens caught in drag nets or protests) and taking them to 3rd party nations for detention is definitely a tactic a totalitarian police state would employ.
Public health is equivocally one of the few places the constitution is defined for (general welfare of the people). This is something they used to teach in civics classes, I wonder when that stopped?
ICE has more funding now as a domestic law-enforcement agency than almost every military on the planet.
If we need to fund the "arrest of illigal immigrants" to such an amount as this, can you please explain to me how other countries, as you mention in your comment, can successfully do this with nowhere near that amount of funding?
It's not just illegal immigrants. They've been arresting and deporting legal ones and even citizens. Deporting to countries they never been to and foreign prisons where they cannot get out.
I would love to hear how is this similar to COVID at all.
So you're totally fine with the police state when it's turned against people you don't like, but you consider it a bad thing when you disagree with its aims. That's a pretty bare display of hypocrisy.
