The argument is “well why don’t they come legally” … “if they just followed the law” …

And this is what they are doing to those people, who followed all the rules, did everything right.

That tells you everything you need to know about the intentions of this admin.

They ran out of illegal immigrants with prior criminal records almost immediately and their political strategy depends on the generation of new "others" to demonize. MAGA basically hates everyone, including themselves, so they will keep expanding their targets.