Ironically, US citizens can be less protected from mass deportations than immigrants because citizens don’t necessarily have ID documents that ICE can verify. Not unheard of for US citizens to be detained by ICE because ICE assumes they are non-citizens and can’t find proof of their lawful status.
Context for Trump’s promise to deport protesters: a GAO analysis estimated that dozens of US citizens were deported during his presidency, including kids. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...