Wouldn’t containers make more sense for some of these rather than full blown VMs?

It’s the military. If you can’t comply to every dumb standard you shouldn’t be there. Thats how they see this.

Seriously though, cheese out all those qualified military personnel. It frees them up to form militias to resist your bullshit later.

The problem is you might not get the chance to make such a defense in a courtroom. If it is an actual ICE agent, they will just disappear you.