ICE aren't the Nazi SS, however, ICE are the Nazi Gestapo

The Jewish Anti-defamation Legue has made the point that ICE under Donald Trump aren't acting like the Nazi SS -- they aren't operating death camps causing millions of deaths in automated mass genocide. This is quite true, however, most people aren't saying that ICE are like the SS. They're saying that ICE are acting like the Nazi Gestapo, and, this is, actually quite accurate and true. ICE are acting extra-legally, they are terrorizing and brutalizing people regularly, they are killing people occasionally. That is exactly what the Nazi Gestapo did. The Nazi Gestapo had no direct role in the administration of the Nazi death camps, that was the job of the SS. ICE are the Gestapo, they aren't the SS. Yet, anyway. They might get to that level after another few years, of course. Now, to be fair, the Nazi Gestapo didn't really act much different from the secret police of any fairly brutal, authoritarian state, and there have always been plenty of those. It was the Nazi SS that was unique -- the professional masters of mass killing, of true genocide. However, that has no bearing on the fact that ICE, under Donald Trump, is acting very much indeed like the Nazi Gestapo.