That's a really loaded way to put it, but okay.

Yeah, I'd rather we not terrorize the nation and build a national goon squad with a larger budget than most national militaries. I'd rather that goon squad not be unidentifiable and masked. And if we're willing to spend $100+ billion on a law enforcement program, I'd rather it be increasing police wages and firing bad cops and hiring/properly training new cops.

I'd rather not spend $100B on LEO at all, frankly.

There are other ways to crack down on immigration than ramping up the surveillance and police state.

edit: I am disappointed that the responder ignored the six points I made, all of which could be discussed, and instead went for a hollow whatabout.

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> California has their own goon squad

The only way that could be a purer distillation of abstract whataboutism would be to remove the last lingering traces of specificity, yielding: "[They] do [it] too!"

Even if we accept that that other-bad-thing exists, how does it justify the first-bad-thing we were talking about?