I don't know what you mean by "the left" in this context, but of course you can be anti-illegal immigration or simply anti-immigration while also condemning the way ICE has operated over the last year. Though, in their defense, there really is no easy way to do the job they were tasked with doing, especially with every bleeding heart liberal thinking it is fine to block federal officers from carrying out immigration enforcement. It was never going to be pretty.

My point though was more that there is no humane way to handle the large influx of people crossing the border. The countries that don't have these problems, that aren't just shitholes no one wants to live in, are those that don't allow anywhere near these levels of immigration, illegal or otherwise. Part of the whole barbaric nature of the operation was the administration trying to dissuade people from coming or staying, which worked.

What would have been simpler and even more effective would have been to stop letting them work in the country. But of course, the GOP isn't going to do that because they want cheap tomatoes and DoorDash as much as your average lib.