Trump administration is just toughening people up and testing the water with what they can get away with.
Remember Niemoller's little quip:
[irishtimes.com]fascism-are-in-full-flow-1.3543375?mode=amp
Yep testing the waters on the Mexican boarder, basically found out if you don't mess with the kids, you can get away with almost anything else by labeling it "National security, or an imigration problem.