Democrats are wading boldly into the immigration debate despite concerns of political fallout as they take on President Donald Trump over one of his most potent issues with voters, reported the Hill.
They have rallied behind Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, the Salvadoran man who the Trump administration said was mistakenly deported in March, and Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., who was charged by the Justice Department with allegedly assaulting law enforcement based on footage of her appearing to elbow an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer outside a migrant detention facility in Newark earlier this month.
“Every single ICE agent who is engaged in this aggressive overreach and are trying to hide their identities from the American people will be unsuccessful in doing that,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., recently told reporters in the Capitol of the incident with McIver.
“This is America,” he added. “This is not the Soviet Union. We’re not behind the Iron Curtain. This is not the 1930s. And every single one of them — no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes — will, of course, be identified.”
After Abrego-Garcia returned to the U.S. Friday to face federal human trafficking charges in Tennessee, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., celebrated.
“For months, the Trump administration flouted the Supreme Court and our Constitution,” Van Hollen said in a statement sent to Fox News.
“Today, they appear to have finally relented to our demands for compliance with court orders and with the due process rights afforded to everyone in the United States.”
Democrats have also taken issue with Trump’s travel ban.
Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., said the ban “will NOT make America safer” and that Americans “cannot continue to allow the Trump administration to write bigotry and hatred into U.S. immigration policy.”
Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., said Trump’s travel bans “have always betrayed … the ideals and values that inspired America’s founders.”
“Trump’s use of prejudice and bigotry to bar people from entering the U.S. does not make us safer, it just divides us and weakens our global leadership,” he said.
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