Let's be clear on what is currently happening right now with regards to ICE detentions and deportations. We were told by multiple levels of executive agencies from the Supreme executive all the way down to local law enforcement that there would be a focus on deporting criminals. I don't think that is something most people have a problem with. If you come here illegally and then go on to commit a bunch of crimes, then that probably wears on the patience of even the more liberal bent Americans. But that is not what is happening. I know from personal experience that the local law enforcement is just looking for any reason to pull over any vehicle they can find that looks like it may have illegal immigrants in it and then handing them over to ICE. My father in law has a landscape business. His workers got stopped for some made up reason in Smith County, and despite not being criminals, ended up with an express paid trip back to Mexico. These were otherwise law abiding guys just trying to make a better life for themselves in a place with actual opportunity for future generations. One, who had worked faithfully for him for like fifteen years, left behind a pregnant wife and an infant. All of my father in law's clients acted shocked that that had happened (not sure why they were shocked, the writing was on the wall when they voted for it). I had to spend my week off last month help out to keep him afloat instead of hunting the rut.
The economic fallout from policies like this is going to be catastrophic. Landscape, construction, and restaurant businesses are all going to go under because they cannot get workers to come to work when they are under the threat of having the life they have built up imploded. There is nobody reliable to fill the void. So we are going to be left with massive small business closure and a huge increase in the cost of living due to the related inflation. All due to the idea of brown people = bad. And that doesn't even get into the increase in crime you foster when a whole group of your population is afraid to call the police to report any crime that has been commited on them. We've essentially declared open season on brown people to the more criminal elements of our society.
Again, most people probably don't have an issue sending the actual criminals back, but when you start indiscriminately sending the hard working people just trying to make a new life for themselves and their family back for "reasons" then you are going to end up with some serious economic problems that are going to negatively affect everyone.