Democrats are using immigrants in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to advance their own political policies, White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley said Monday on Fox News.
"This shows you that Democrats are playing politics with people's lives … DACA wasn't even in this last omnibus bill," Gidley said.
Democrats have not agreed to take part in a solution, while President Donald Trump offered a possible path to citizenship for 1.8 million people, he said
"They for whatever reason decided to stand with hundreds of thousands of people who are here unlawfully and illegally as opposed to the American citizens — hundreds and millions of those people. The president stood with everyone and said 'let's get this job — I'm here to do a job. Let's get it fixed.' And Democrats haven't come to the table."
"We're in this horrible mess now, but it should be no surprise to anybody. This happened back in the 1980s, they gave people amnesty and there was a flood of people into this country because they wanted the freebies. The same thing occurs today," Gidley said.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, also took aim at Democrats on Monday.
"They wanted to use DACA recipients as political pawns," Sanders said on "Fox & Friends."
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