Seems clear to me it's not "mass deportation"

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It's ethnic cleansing.

They are (ab-)using deportation laws and procedures to implement part of a larger ethnic cleansing program but it seems clear that the real point is ethnic cleansing.

The willingness to sweep up citizens in the process, the complete disregard for families, jobs, industries, contributions to the community, length of time in America, and eagerness to send them to irrelevant countries, and possible torture and imprisonment for the crime of wanting to come to America and failing to stand in line still out paperwork, it all makes sense if it's ethnic cleansing.

I don't think I really have to work hard to convince anyone here that there's obvious bigotry behind it. But the term deportation, even mass deportation, doesn't convey the proper degree of evil involved. They're deporting people who have been here for decades, worked productively, committed no crimes, all because their parents didn't follow the rules when they came here. There's no public interest or policy that makes any sense that says this is a good thing; it only adds up if you've decided to get rid of a whole class of people.

Deportation can be a legitimate process, used sparingly and judiciously after due process. Even mass deportation merely conveys volume.

"Ethnic cleansing" conveys what's really going on. Sure, a few immigrants from Europe might get caught up in the sweep, but the obvious focus is on people from Spanish-speaking countries, and they're just using the tools available to get rid of "those people".