House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), who is running for Speaker in the new Congress, says Democrats must provide "remedial assistance" to anyone he says was treated unfairly by the Trump administration's immigration enforcement, Fox News reports.
Asked on PBS News Hour whether he would support bringing DACA recipients back to the U.S., Jeffries said: "Certainly anyone, whether they are a citizen, whether they were here lawfully, whether there are DACA recipients [who have] been treated unfairly and unjustly by the administration, we need to provide remedial assistance to them and undo the damage that's been done to the country, to law-abiding immigrant families, and to the American people over this last 20 months or so."
He did not say what that assistance would look like. In the same interview Jeffries said Democrats were focused on the cost of living: "housing, that's healthcare, that's groceries, that's gas."
White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis told Fox News Digital: "Democrats show time and time again with their extremist, anti-American policies that they care more about illegal aliens than U.S. citizens." Democratic strategist Julian Epstein also criticized the remarks, saying "Democrats are falling back into the extremist open border trap" and that 80% of voters opposed the Biden-era border policies.
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