Hakeem Jeffries Criticizes ICE Raids, Urges Focus on Violent Offenders

Response to Officer Shooting

• 💡 It is the hope that the victim of the criminal act is able to fully and completely recover.
• 🎯 Those responsible for the criminal act should be held accountable and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Immigration System Priorities

• 🔑 The country needs to secure the border and fix our broken immigration system in a bipartisan and comprehensive way.
• 🤝 At the same time, it is important to stand up for dreamers, farm workers, and law-abiding immigrant families.

Criticism of Trump Administration's Approach

• ⚠️ Many people now disapprove of the Trump administration's approach to immigration.
• 💰 They were promised the administration would focus on deporting violent felons, as opposed to targeting children and law-abiding immigrant families.
• 💸 The Trump administration should spend taxpayer resources on deporting violent felons.
• ⚾ Instead, they are showing up at public events like little league baseball games, churches, schools, and hospitals.