Hakeem Jeffries Blasts Trump Admin For ‘Unleashing’ ICE On ‘Law-Abiding Immigrant Families’

5 months ago

At the Illinois Democratic County Chairs’ Association Brunch in Springfield, IL, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) bashed the Trump administration’s policies on immigration.

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00:00You know, when my two sons were a little younger, one was nine, Jeremiah, the other was six, Joshua.

00:10Jeremiah played travel baseball, and for those of you who have been parents to children who played travel sports,

00:18you know, travel sports will take you all over the place, often beyond the beaten path.

00:25And one Memorial Day weekend, Jeremiah had a baseball tournament at a small little town in the Northeast, in the New England region.

00:37And I said to Jeremiah and his youngest son, Joshua, Joshua was six years old at the time,

00:45that I was going to take him on the trip with his older brother, a weekend trip to this travel baseball tournament,

00:53and that it would be like a vacation.

00:59What did I say that for, y'all?

01:03Because Joshua had visions of Atlantis.

01:07We go on this trip, we finally arrive, we pull up to the motel where we're staying at.

01:20And Joshua, six years old, looks at the motel, looks at me, looks at the motel, and then looks at me.

01:30And listen, y'all, that motel, it was a shaky situation.

01:38So finally, he says to me,

01:40Oh my God, Dad, this is a debacle.

01:49Joshua was six years old, so I look at him, and I say,

01:53Joshua, what does the word debacle mean?

01:59He says, I don't know, Dad.

02:02It's something bad.

02:05I think this is the moment that we're in right now, Illinois Democrats.

02:10Crashing the economy is something bad.

02:14Destroying Medicaid as you know it is something bad.

02:18Taking a chainsaw to Social Security is something bad.

02:21Raising costs on hardworking American taxpayers is something bad.

02:26Firing veterans who serve this country is something bad.

02:31Cancelling medical research for children with cancer is something bad.

02:36Destroying the retirement accounts of everyday Americans, that's something bad.

02:41Trying to whitewash the most painful parts of American history is something bad.

02:46Unleashing mass ICE agents on law-abiding immigrant families,

02:51which should never happen, is something bad.

02:53And undermining the rule of law is something bad.

02:56The first six months of the Trump administration have been a debacle.

03:01America is better than this.

03:04We're better than this.

03:07We're better than this.

03:09You deserve better

03:10than what we

03:12are confronting.

03:15I

03:16And

03:26we're good now for those things.

03:26We don't have to

03:27know.

03:28Wow.

03:29You

03:30And

03:33We don't have to

03:34We're disagree.

03:35We're

03:40We're

03:41I'm

Hakeem Jeffries Blasts Trump Admin For ‘Unleashing’ ICE On ‘Law-Abiding Immigrant Families’

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