victimize

verb

1. (transitive)To make (someone) a victim or sacrifice.
2. (transitive)To punish unjustly.

   “Yet, even as Democratic party leadership has decried this mass deportation plan and even as the bill maligns Democrats as victimizing Americans through its policy of “open borders,” 48 Democratic members of Congress voted for this GOP-backed bill.”

3. (transitive)To swindle or defraud.