Also by grabbing the worse first it scares many of them into self-deporting as well, we already saw how entire neighborhoods in Chicago turned into a ghost town after the first ICE raids as well as the long lines of cars heading through the border to Mexico after the inauguration. Most humans have this odd psychology where the resistance is less when it's a small number rounded up vs a mass-event, it goes all the way back before when Machiavelli described it and even pops up in things like this quote from Warhammer 40K:
Kill a thousand men and they will hate you, kill a million men and they will queue to face you. But kill a single man and they will see monsters and devils in every shadow. Kill a dozen men and they will scream and wail in the night and they will feel fear not hatred.
Psychological warfare is not just for the black hats.
Also by grabbing the worse first it scares many of them into self-deporting as well, we already saw how entire neighborhoods in Chicago turned into a ghost town after the first ICE raids as well as the long lines of cars heading through the border to Mexico after the inauguration. Most humans have this odd psychology where the resistance is less when it's a small number rounded up vs a mass-event, it goes all the way back before when Machiavelli described it and even pops up in things like this quote from Warhammer 40K:
Psychological warfare is not just for the black hats.
Great point.