Or by the cartels, for whom smuggling people into the United States is a lucrative (and violent) business. [2]
1: https://abcnews.go.com/US/10-arrested-after-ambush-texas-ice...
2: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/25/us/migrant-smuggling-evol...
The obvious intent is to terrify the general population with masked shock troops. This is third world warlord shit. It's more likely that what the lawyers are afraid of is their employability after this nightmare is ended.
Who wouldn't be afraid of their lives and their families safety, when there's aggressive mobs, both on- and off- line, waiting to doxx or physically assault you for doing your job and enforcing the law?