Democrats are getting arrested, detained, and censured all in the name of protesting President Donald Trump‘s policies, but the theatrics run the risk of backfiring.

From a local mayor to a sitting senator, Democrats have used more confrontational tactics to stand up to Trump’s mass deportation operations, which have resulted in lawmakers getting handcuffed or criminally charged. Sitting governors and members of Congress have also dared the Trump administration to arrest them to make political points of defiance.