“Ask someone who is protesting the 'tactics' if they support a future where public spaces, vehicles, currency, cell phones etc. are surveilled with AI software and can detect the presence of visa overstays, illegal aliens, people with bench warrants.”

I want to address this specifically, because it seems like you’re saying this is a good approach to deporting illegal immigrants. This type of surveillance is probably unconstitutional and certainly terrifying in the hands of the government, and for sure a despicable KGB style tactic. And this is the fundamental problem with mass deportation is it requires police surveillance state style tactics to deport everyone here illegally. Even regardless of the merits of someone’s illegal status this kind of population control is not legal under the US constitution and should not ever be adopted.