>and maybe you don't know everything, and maybe what you believe is actually naive and just a manifestation of your sillyness.

I have coworkers lying low so they don't get deported from the country. And many were born here. I beyond exhausted of this "both sides" narrative as if I need any introspection on the prospect of "maybe we should exile people based on skin color".

If here is the US and they were born here, they are citizens, no? Why would they be worried about deportation?