We might not be as far from that as you think. Fun fact: Trump has campaigned on rounding up over 10 million immigrants and their children for deportation in the span of a few years. It’s hard to get figures for how many Trump supporters agree with the whole plan right now, but I found a 42% from earlier this year, with higher numbers anti-immigrant in more general ways, and of course by definition none consider it a deal breaker.
Now you can work out what such a round up would look like, how an effort to collect so many people all at once is likely to handle them. (Takei made some widely circulated remarks about the subject, as someone who knows camps.) You might also look up Operation Wetback, and the cruel and sometimes fatal neglect with which it treated a small fraction of that number, seeing as how Trump has spoken highly of it as a model.
Or you can tell us this – you asking us to be more indulgent to those supporting that hollow man, with no word on their targets – this is you focused on the issue of rounding people up and calling out what leads to it. You know, when you see it. Christ, are you really that blind to what is being asked here?
