I was not speaking of those already here, rather new students applying for entry. I do not support deportation.
It wasn't clear you were speaking of people coming in for the first time.
But the situation holds, for the same reasons, for people coming in. It would be one thing if the administration had said they would do this a few months ago. Dropping this now makes it a mad scramble.
He wrote "I’m not trying to justify deportation proceedings, merely asking a question?" That clearly implies he was referring to people here already.
But you have a certain Pavlovian response to damookster now where you can't help but interpret his words in a more negative way than if I were interpreting his words.