This was par for the course in Heydrich’s Sicherheitsdienst in which undesirables and antinationals were rebranded within the service as hardened criminals so they could be treated more cruelly while in detention.

Similarly ICE is only supposed to go after undocumented immigrants who are also felons. They go after any immigrant and some vulnerable American citizens, felons or not.

The point is to paint the society as teeming with enemies of state, so as to justify more extreme security measures.