I think it's possible to be repulsed by ICE's performance while at the same time acknowledging that it's not the same organization as the Gestapo.
Yes, Godwin's Law needn't always apply. The article I linked shows the repulsive aspect, which is bad enough without having to make a parallel to Nazi Germany.
It's not the same as what the Gestapo became. Is it the same as what happened before the death camps opened?
The persecution of Hispanics is hardly restricted to the ICE arrests of the so-called illegal immigrants. Throughout Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, US citizens are having their passports not be renewed or even actually taken from them for
suspicion of their not being citizens. No trials. No hearings before action and frequently not after.
US citizens are being arrested within 100 miles of a border for speaking Spanish in public. Some of them are deported before they can do anything to stop it. Not many of them, you argue, and I ask "how many does it take?
Children under 10 are subject to hearings without lawyers or family present and deported.
Meanwhile, the efforts to strip LGBTQ folks of their civil rights proceeds apace.
Come on, guys, tell me how this is
not Nazi-esque, pre Holocaust.
Godwin thinks the comparison is apt. The Anne Frank Center thinks it's apt.
But at least the "we're not racist, we just hate non-white folks" people agree that comparisons to the Nazis are terrible.