ICE is doing things that have nothing to do with them. DHS has subpoenaed tech companies to unmask people who criticize ICE online, and a federal judge ruled ICE likely violated the First Amendment by sending agents to warn a man over an email.
Hundreds of US citizens have been detained by immigration agents, and most were never charged with anything. Federal judges, including Trump appointees, have found illegal detentions THOUSANDS of times.
Enforcing the law is the OPPOSITE of violating the Constitution.
This is dishonest. Claiming that it is bad for " ICE and the DOJ have used social media and every government database they can" to detect illegal immigrants, especially in the context of talking about Nazi Germany, with the implication that ICE is morally equivalent to the Nazis using bureaucratic records to find and persecute their enemies, is in fact an argument against enforcing border laws.
It's completely reasonable for the government to have records of which people are citizens and of what the specific legal status is of non-citizens present in the country. It's completely reasonable for the police agencies in charge of enforcing border laws to use those records to find people in violation of those laws and arrest and deport them. It's completely reasonable for the same police agencies to look at social media posts of people talking, sometimes even bragging, about their undocumented status and use that as a basis to arrest and deport them for violating immigration law.
The only reason not to think this is if you think it's inherently wrong to enforce immigration laws at all, which many people do, and often lie about because it sounds extreme to say it that bluntly.
Bullshit.
There are a HUGE number of reasons to think that there should be meaningful controls over what data the government aggregates and accesses, and how that's handled.
Fuck off with your authoritarian horseshit, and your dreams of an omnipotent government.
This is reasonable in principle. I think that those meaningful data controls should make citizenship and legal immigration status completely public and completely transparent to all parts of the government, as well as to the general public, at all times. So not only should ICE and every single other government agency be able to instantly tell if someone they are interacting with is a citizen, a legal immigrant, or an illegal immigrant - I personally as an ordinary citizen should be able to do the same thing; in the same way that right now I can look up who gave donations to political candidates or parties by name, or look at someone's ID and figure out if it's legal or illegal for me to sell them alcohol.
Targeting specific minorities and political opponents, and detaining US citizens without access to legal representation or their families. I'm not sure how you missed these events which have been widely reported, and are unprecedented and illegal (but with a cowardly lack of any pushback / checks+balances).
The parent comment is obviously speaking about what happened in Hitler's Germany