[eightysixfour]

They specifically call out why the semantics matter in the actual article, in the first paragraph.

> President Donald Trump premised his mass deportation agenda on the idea that he will be “returning millions and millions of criminal aliens.” Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has repeatedly claimed that they are arresting the “worst of the worst.”

When speaking to Trump supporting friends who employ illegal immigrants they specifically defend that it is only the "bad ones."

[Sohcahtoa82]

> When speaking to Trump supporting friends who employ illegal immigrants they specifically defend that it is only the "bad ones."

They still feel this way because their news sources don't tell them about restaurants being raided and the entire kitchen being arrested or ICE raids on agriculture.

Problems aren't problems until it happens to them.

[flatpepsi17]

Yes- that's a big problem. The business owners are getting away with massive employment fraud, tax fraud, and any number of OSHA/employee law violations. They need to be arrested and brought to trial.

If you can't run a business without breaking the law (including illegal labor), then that business shouldn't exist.