to my family this is just business as usual with extra manpower
This is simply not true, and it's dangerous to pretend that it is. I'm not saying anything about how good or bad things have been for your family in the US.
However, there is not been any time in the past, at least, 80 years that the US government has trafficked lawful permanent residents, green card holders, literal infants with terminal cancer, etc., to a mega prison in a country they've likely never been to and have never had a connection to. That's not "business as usual."
Not, in at least 80 years (probably never), has a sitting president threatened to "deport" US citizens in any capacity, let alone for their political views. And, as we've all seen, these are not empty threats.
Never have we had such a corrupt and compromised Supreme Court. Never has a political party in the US been so subservient to a single demagogue, to the point of complete deriliction of duty.