The article is on point.

I did know a former brownshirt (my neighbour when i was a kid in the late 80s, early 90s), and i often talked to him about his time back then, before the war. He was quiet a nice dude, you couldn't imagine that he spend his youth beating jews and having street fights with communists... but this is another story.

What stuck in my mind from this conversations was that he and the other brownshirts were PROUD of what they were doing, they left their home in uniform and returned to it in uniform. They paraded in uniforms and it was simply KNOWN who they were. I think the best analogy for today would be getting a gang tattoo to your face and walking around with it in public - there is no easy going back.

This tells me, that the ICE guys (are there any women employed?) are not really convinced that they are doing "the right thing", that they want to have a way back into normal society if their experiment fails.