Meanwhile we send forces to police fellow Americans as if their cities were occupied territory.
Then they dispel the rumors that they'll be at polling places—because they don't have to show at polling places. The rumor was enough. The point is: hide.
Deportation was the secondary point of the raids.
The first was terror.
The point is white supremacist terror.
They see that the state has begun their own campaign of white supremacist terror, and they take it upon themselves to self-deputize.