First they deport you and then they steal all your stuff. [View all]

It's reminiscent of the Internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

If you are deported and don't have trustworthy non-deportable friends and family to look after your car and other property then it's lost.

Your car left parked on the street will be marked as abandoned and towed away by sketchy tow companies associated with even sketchier police and sheriff departments.

Whatever you've got in your home or apartment disappears.

Japanese Americans lost entire farms to unscrupulous people who'd promised to manage the farms for them for the duration of the war but then deliberately ran them into foreclosure so they could be sold to developers or white farmers for pennies on the dollar.

My mom's dad got beat up by the cops for protesting as they rounded up his Japanese American neighbors.

What's going on now is a repeat of this ugly history all rooted in the racism and xenophobia prevalent throughout U.S. history.