There are 1.9 million persons in US prisons, correctional facilities, jails, whatever you want to call them. This includes persons incarcerated for felonies as well as misdemeanors.

The MAGA have stated intentions to deport 12 million+ persons. That is six times the current US prison population. Even if the focus is supposedly on persons committing crimes other than a violation of immigration law, the 12 million number betrays that the focus is on ethnicity, not criminality.

Less than 15% of the persons in US prisons are not citizens of the USA. That’s less than 300,000, or 0.3 million. The other 11.7 million+ persons are not currently in jails, not currently convicted of crimes, and are not currently breaking laws other than those involving immigration status.

12 million+ people is over 3% of the US population. That would mean for every 100 people I know, 3 would be targeted for deportation, focused on those who have Latin American heritage, or who look like they have Latin American heritage. US citizens who are unfortunate enough to not have documentation on their persons when challenged for it are going to be in that 12 million+ number.

Most of the persons with unauthorized immigration statuses live in what are called “split households.” They’re either married to or related to US citizens in their household. This proposed MAGA mass deportation will rip families apart.

Every historical mass deportation I’ve read about has involved brutality directed towards the deportees, their deprivation of basic resources, their denial of access to medicines, starvation, diseases, suicides, horrific deaths…

And as that deportation is being cruelly considered, I do not yet hear anyone asking this question, so I will, out loud.

WHO IS NEXT?