A group of congressional Democrats on Wednesday called for immediate action to curb the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration enforcement operation. They said the system should “bring sanity” to immigration, after Donald Trump said following his party’s midterm drubbing that it had been “too tough” in certain aspects.
The appeal came just over a week after midterm elections in which the president’s harsh crackdown was seen as fuelling a voter backlash against Republicans. Sitting and newly elected Democrats gathered outside the US Capitol in Washington to back a bipartisan approach to reform, even as they prepare to take control of both chambers next year.
Lawmakers withhold details on reform or abolition plans
The Democrats declined to say in detail how they would reform the agency, or whether they would seek to abolish it.
