[the_doctah]

>Chief among these civil penalties is deportation or removal, where an unlawful resident may be detained and removed from the country.

[RajT88]

The deportation part is the defensible part of the story. It is a lot more than "sending them home". What's going on is excessive. It's worth mentioning - the people being "deported" have something in common, and it's not necessarily their immigration status, it's overwhelmingly their ethnicity.

The Polish and eastern European community by me doesn't seem to be having any deportation issues, despite having a lot of illegal immigrants via visa overstay.

[the_doctah]

That's because they aren't the ones causing the biggest problems