You can't just look at every action the administration is taking on this in isolation. This is part of a larger program of demonizing and abusing immigrants in

You can't just look at every action the administration is taking on this in isolation. This is part of a larger program of demonizing and abusing immigrants in this country. I don't think they deserve the benefit of the doubt. In any case, there are ways to handle this that are less abusive of people who were just trying to do their jobs. This honestly could have been handled with an email. "We have been notified that some of your employees have been doing work A, B and C in violation of their visa agreements. Please take action to correct this before we have to take legal action, which could involve arrest and deportation and fines." That is the way this would have been handled in the past, and would have resolved the problem, but they were more interested in putting on a show. When enforcing the law, there are broad spectrum of actions available between doing nothing at all and launching a drone strike, and this administration seems to want to do the latter more often than not.