Most "progressives" are such hypocrites.
Most of the immigration suppression laws on the books are there due largely to pressure from labor unions.
The first national immigration suppression law, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, was passed to appease white labor unions, who didn't like competing with Chinese immigrants (who were willing to work harder for less money than white natives):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act
Labor union hostility to immigrants continued for most of the 20th Century.
Here's socialist union stooge Bernie Sanders calling for immigration suppression laws over the years:
Famed socialist labor union leader Cesar Chavez snitched on immigrants and personally helped round up "w*tbacks" for deportation:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/flashback-cesar-chavez-thought-illegals-153018493.html
Paul Krugman supports using government thugs to stop the poorest people in the world from living and working the US, because he thinks it would reduce public support for his socialist welfare schemes:
"That’s not to say that I, or most progressives, support open borders. You can see one important reason right there in the Baldizzi apartment: the photo of F.D.R. on the wall. The New Deal made America a vastly better place, yet it probably wouldn’t have been possible without the immigration restrictions that went into effect after World War I. For one thing, absent those restrictions, there would have been many claims, justified or not, about people flocking to America to take advantage of welfare programs."
https://web.archive.org/web/20141121045844/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/21/opinion/paul-krugman-immigration-children.html
Both Obama and Biden deported more people than did Trump during his first term:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c36e41dx425o
The photos of immigrant "kids in cages" that were widely blamed on Trump were actually taken during the Obama administration:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180601234808/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/upshot/liberals-immigration-children-border-misinformation.html
Does this mean Trump is not a tyrant? God, no. He's an authoritarian monster. And rightwing nativists are also hypocrites, for other reasons. (You can't be for free trade and property rights, and also support immigration suppression laws.)
But Trump's tyrannical policies are also tyrannical when the Democrats support them.
Tyranny is tyranny, whether the tyrant is a bureaucrat or a king.
Most of the immigration suppression laws on the books are there due largely to pressure from labor unions.
The first national immigration suppression law, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, was passed to appease white labor unions, who didn't like competing with Chinese immigrants (who were willing to work harder for less money than white natives):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act
Labor union hostility to immigrants continued for most of the 20th Century.
Here's socialist union stooge Bernie Sanders calling for immigration suppression laws over the years:
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Famed socialist labor union leader Cesar Chavez snitched on immigrants and personally helped round up "w*tbacks" for deportation:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/flashback-cesar-chavez-thought-illegals-153018493.html
Paul Krugman supports using government thugs to stop the poorest people in the world from living and working the US, because he thinks it would reduce public support for his socialist welfare schemes:
"That’s not to say that I, or most progressives, support open borders. You can see one important reason right there in the Baldizzi apartment: the photo of F.D.R. on the wall. The New Deal made America a vastly better place, yet it probably wouldn’t have been possible without the immigration restrictions that went into effect after World War I. For one thing, absent those restrictions, there would have been many claims, justified or not, about people flocking to America to take advantage of welfare programs."
https://web.archive.org/web/20141121045844/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/21/opinion/paul-krugman-immigration-children.html
Both Obama and Biden deported more people than did Trump during his first term:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c36e41dx425o
The photos of immigrant "kids in cages" that were widely blamed on Trump were actually taken during the Obama administration:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180601234808/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/upshot/liberals-immigration-children-border-misinformation.html
Does this mean Trump is not a tyrant? God, no. He's an authoritarian monster. And rightwing nativists are also hypocrites, for other reasons. (You can't be for free trade and property rights, and also support immigration suppression laws.)
But Trump's tyrannical policies are also tyrannical when the Democrats support them.
Tyranny is tyranny, whether the tyrant is a bureaucrat or a king.