Devil's advocate cartels are cartels. If you're messing up cartel business by arresting and deporting their members that makes you a target of retaliation.
Ofc that would require them to actually be dealing with the cartel and not just whatever (mostly brown) people who aren't armed and violent.
Yeah, but we all got checks with his name on them and told we don't have to care about the "weak" in our community if it inconvenienced us. Also racism and sexism and "faith" are back in the open . Isn't that worth it?