That is putting a lot of faith into an administration that has shown countless times to not care about fairness, to have acted in severely bad faith against civ

That is putting a lot of faith into an administration that has shown countless times to not care about fairness, to have acted in severely bad faith against civilians and to have courted and outright worked together with far-right movements. It has also aggressively fired anyone who has dared question these policies from the inside. These are all signs of an authoritarian power grab. In addition to that, you make a number of arguments with absolutely no evidence to back them up. You claim that the arrests are public record and completely on the level. There is no evidence of that. You claim that they arrest on valid probable cause. There is no evidence of that. When people in military uniforms with no markings roll up in unmarked rental vans and refuse to identify themselves before taking away random protestors, that is a deliberate scare tactic and fear campaign. As protestors, you do not know whether you are being taken by federal officers or by a far-right militia. You do not know where you will be taken or when (or if) you will be released again. This is completely deliberate, and designed to instill a fear of protesting government injustice. There is a very good point to be made that this is a gross violation of the first amendment.