A person is detained as residents of Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood confront US Border Patrol and other law enforcement agents at a gas station on October 4, 2025. | Octavio Jones/AFP via Getty Images When liberals denounce Donald Trump’s authoritarianism, they often cast his immigration agenda as a case in point. Back in June, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee decried the president’s “mass deportation operations” as the “stepping stone” to his “radical attempts to seize absolute power.” In the same statement, they condemned the administration’s deportation of noncrimin...

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