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Because it highlights the fact that they are stopping and detaining people based on illegal racial profiling. The officers involved literally don't care about legal status.
But this was long established.
It feels like the point is simply to make "good citizens" scared because they didn't find it a problem as long as the ones being horribly treated were filthy immigrants.
But it confirms the idea that whether the victim is a "citizen" or not is an important point, implying that torturing people is fine as long as they don't have the right papers. I cannot really accept something like that.
If you replace "deports" by "shoots in the face", suddenly most people would think that being a citizen is irrelevant, but because this torture/deportation thing is less " obvious" people delude themselves into tolerating it, as long as they don't personally feel threatened.
I don't disagree with your viewpoint, but I'm not in support of what ICE is doing at all. There are MILLIONS of people in this country who steadfastly believe that anyone arrested by ICE is an illegal alien and, yes, many of them also believe that any force used against such people is justified. Arguing with them from a humanitarian standpoint gets you nowhere. Pointing at stories like this, where they will clearly snatch up anyone on the street they think looks like they don't belong here is at least some ammunition to engage those peoples' cognitive dissonance.