We’re going to see the incoming administration weasel out of its rhetoric and focus on deporting persons with a criminal record. Administrations since Obama have been doing this. We are going to hear more about cancelling DACA, parole and TPS.

Senator Rand Paul, incoming chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, said that it would be a “terrible image” to use the Army to arrest unauthorized persons.

Denver mayor Mike Johnson said he would resist any mass deportation effort using military personnel.

Boston mayor Michelle Wu said that she will resist mass deportation efforts.

An analogy: in the early days of the Kennedy administration in 1961, the White House launched a program to construction bomb shelters. Not too long after, a Christian minister opined that it was not inconsistent with Christian doctrine for a family to shoot people trying to get into their home shelter. The administration quickly abandoned the project.