Someone should ask Hakeem Jeffries to explain how his latest statement will help address Americans’ affordability concerns, because we’re at a loss. While Jeffries was quick to say after the midterms that Democrats were focused on “affordability” and ” accountability” instead of impeachment, his fellow Democrats — with an assist from Thomas Massie — jumped right to impeachment talk, threats of investigations for President Trump and his family, and even threatened businesses who “cooperated” with the administration.
Now Jeffries is telling the country his party plans to bring back deported DACA recipients and compensate them for being removed from the country.
“Well, certainly on the immigration front, we have a broken immigration system,” Jeffries said. “It needs to be fixed. It should be fixed in a comprehensive way. Immigration enforcement should be fair, just, and humane.”
That means they’ll only deport the South Africans Trump granted asylum to, and not the criminals, drug dealers, and others.
“We’re not going to provide a dime for this administration’s violent mass deportation machine,” Jeffries continued, “let’s work together, perhaps beginning with moving the Dream and Promise Act this Congress as a foundation for the type of work that can be done in the next Congress.”
“That Dream and Promise Act, of course, impacting the DACA recipients. I should point out, it’s been reported some, dozens of DACA recipients are among those already deported under this administration’s immigration crackdown,” said host Amna Nawaz. “Would you support efforts to bring them back into the U.S.?”
