Top House Dem sparks backlash with plan for deported Dreamers that goes beyond bringing them back
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said Tuesday he supports bringing deported DACA recipients back to the U.S.
- "EVERY TIME Dems want any form of amnesty, it's to make them voters, and use those voters to open the floodgate, then get citizenship to millions more," Eric Daugherty, chief content officer of Florida’s Voice, claimed Wednesday in an X post responding to Jeffries' remarks.
- HOUSE REPUBLICANS MOVE TO MAKE TRUMP'S BORDER POLICIES PERMANENT "If we want to have an immigration reform to where we can look at DACA and figure out a way that these individuals can become maybe legal permanent citizens or something like this, that’ll be up to Congress," Mullin said.
- currently has a "broken immigration system" that "needs to be fixed." BORDER DEM POISED TO WIELD ICE PURSE STRINGS REJECTS SOCIALIST ‘DEFUND’ PUSH "Well, certainly, on the immigration front, we have a broken immigration system.
Jeffries replied "certainly" when asked during a "PBS NewsHour" interview whether he would support bringing deported DACA recipients back to the U.S.
Podcaster Benny Johnson similarly criticized Jeffries in a social media post on Wednesday, alleging that Democrats "always put foreigners before Americans." "Hakeem Jeffries says he wants to re-import DACA recipients that have already been deported and pay them," Johnson said.
- TRUMP REAFFIRMS ICE ARREST POLICY AFTER CONFUSING GUIDANCE SPARKS ALARM AMONG AGENTS DHS emphasized in a March 3, 2026, X post that DACA "does not confer any form of legal status" in the U.S.
- JEFFRIES VOWS DEMOCRATS WON’T ‘GIVE A DIME’ TO TRUMP’S DEPORTATION EFFORTS DACA offers eligible immigrants brought to the country illegally as children temporary protection from deportation and the ability to apply for work authorization, but does not grant legal immigration status, according to U.S.
- "Any illegal alien who is a DACA recipient may be subject to arrest and deportation for a number of reasons, including if they’ve committed a crime." "Between January 20, 2025, and September 28, 2025, ICE arrested 264 DACA recipients….
- and providing what he called "remedial assistance," prompting critics to accuse him of wanting to pay deported immigrants.
- "It should be fixed in a comprehensive way." " Immigration enforcement should be fair, just and humane," the New York Democrat added.
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