The Socialism part of National Socialism was an appeal to the working class in Germany.

How is this any different than what Trump is doing with ICE?

Most people are being laid off in the U.S. right now, but ICE is desperate to hire. You don't need any experience or education to join. In fact, education and thinking too much is downright discouraged, along with the trap of "toxic empathy."

You get a really great salary, a huge sign on bonus, and benefits. If I quit my job today (with an M.S. and a decade of experience) and went to work for ICE, I might actually be able to afford to buy a house, stop paying rent, and start saving money instead of barely scraping by month to month just to pay my bills (when I can) and buy groceries.

All I would have to do is be willing to round up the "enemy from within," for the Trump administration and send them to overcrowded private prisons and detention centers where people are literally disappearing and dying preventable deaths on a regular basis.

There's no way in hell I would be willing to do that because I've seen this before and recognize it for exactly what this is. However, I can see how appealing the offer would be if you're unaware of what's really going on or if you're willing to just dissociate and not think about the fact that you're a fucking Nazi just following orders.

I hope to God I never find myself in a situation where I need to choose between joining ICE (and commiting legalized crimes) or turning to "illegal crime" just to keep my family fed, but my job has just barely continued to be funded multiple times already in 2025.

Again, nobody is hiring right now other than ICE, but for me, I honestly believe "illegal crime" would be the preferable option. I also recognize that by chosing "illegal crime," I then become a target for incentivized incarceration and officially "part of the enemy from within" (more so than I already am for simply pointing out what's actually happening here). I risk losing my family, being rounded up as part of a quota by the Trump administration to arrest 5000 people in my city in an operation targeting crime and immigration, and sent to one of the many overcrowded private prisons that this administration and their wealthy friends continue to profit from via these arrest quotas and constantly expanding incarceration rates, alongside the profits they're making from immigration detention centers/deportation pipelines, Palantir, and other investments in private tech surveillance that helps them spy on and round up these enemies from within.

I'm sorry if this comes off as a little angry/harsh, but how in the fuck am I not supposed to notice the similarities between the Trump administration and Nazism?

In Trump's case we've got check marks for almost everything, including Nazi salutes. No obvious swastikas I'm aware of, and the numbers of people who have actually died or disappeared while in ICE custody isn't close to the Holocaust, but we are also only one year into his full fascist term...