US President Donald Trump, alongside Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, speaks during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 26. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

When President Donald Trump began rapidly deporting migrants earlier this year to a brutal Salvadoran prison – including some wrongfully so – without due process, Democrats were somewhat wary of pushing back .

Yes, the move appeared illegal and highly problematic. But didn’t Americans just want undocumented immigrants deported? By standing up for due process, didn’t Democrats risk looking like they were siding with people in the country illegally – or even alleged gang members?

Well, it turned out Americans could separate those two things in their minds. In large part because of

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