“If Trump administration were serious about deporting as many illegal aliens as possible, it would be doing everything it could to improve and expedite the ordinary deportation processes, not wasting its time on probably illegal Alien Enemies Act proclamation that would apply to 1/10,000 of the illegal aliens, all of whom could be deported through other means. It's almost as if it's looking for excuses for failure and scapegoats to blame.”
Broadly speaking, an MO like this should be familiar to lots of readers who have had to deal with really incompetent people at work, especially higher-ups who are very bad at strategy and then flail at implementation.
