But this was long established.

It feels like the point is simply to make “good citizens” scared because they didn’t find it a problem as long as the ones being horribly treated were filthy immigrants.

But it confirms the idea that whether the victim is a “citizen” or not is an important point, implying that torturing people is fine as long as they don’t have the right papers. I cannot really accept something like that.

If you replace “deports” by “shoots in the face”, suddenly most people would think that being a citizen is irrelevant, but because this torture/deportation thing is less " obvious" people delude themselves into tolerating it, as long as they don’t personally feel threatened.

The problem here is that it is unlawful and immoral, not whether it’s a citizen or not. This implies that it would be fine if the person wasn’t a citizen.

And that’s good?

What is the relevance of being a US citizen exactly?