In my country, and I assume in the US, immigrants are useful to the bourgeoisie as highly-vulnerable and highly-exploitable labor. As many say, they do the hard and dirty jobs which other people don't want to do, they can be coerced with threats of deportation. And with the US Republican Party's apparent attempts to reduce offshoring and bring production back onshore, surely powerful sections of the bourgeoisie have an interest in lowering labor costs to compensate.
A popular answer from the mainstream is to simply point to White nationalism and other bigotry. Another answer is that illegal immigrants acts as a scapegoat and a way for their party to signal to citizens that they're doing something to solve their problems. And while I think these are reasonable and plausible suggestions, I want to explore other options before assuming a simple cultural explanation. For example, liberal media tends to frame Middle-Eastern conflict with the Zionist Regime (and even Western support for the regime) as religious conflict or even a racial conflict, rather than colonial imperialism.
It doesn't. Remember all the dems posting how Biden was deporting more immigrants per week than Trump?
The point of the deportations being as public as they are, yet being lower in number than the ones during the Biden era, is to make the immigrants who are already in the US very afraid. It makes them more exploitable. Essentially, it's just terrorism, using the arm of the state to threaten a marginalized group so they have to work even harder and make less demands.
and for the record the United States has always behaved this way. There hasn't been a time in which the United States did not act this way to at least one group of migrants coming to the United States. There has always been a group that the state has gone after to push living standards down and extract more ~~value~~ labor out of people