Part of the dystopian horror is learning they don’t care where you came from, and often will deposit you right into the hands of human traffickers.

And they’ll lock foreign-looking American citizens in a room with no contact and no lawyer and say You have forty-eight hours to prove your citizenship. Good luck. Followed by deportation as above. So no, your birth certificate in a hospital in San Diego will not help you.

And between those places are the detention centers that are packed at over double maximum safe occupancy, which get super dirty and super infected, and the ICE troopers / PSCs would beat the crap out of people for fun.

Some of the scary bits of the German Reich concentration camp program are already happening here in the US.