'Simply make no sense': Lawmaker shreds Trump's 'very strange' and conflicting statements

Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) called out President-elect Donald Trump's "incoherent" plans for immigration on CNN, as he promises to work with Democrats to protect the legal status of "Dreamers" — part of a program he tried to eliminate in his previous administration — and while vowing "on day one" to eliminate birthright citizenship, something guaranteed in the Fourteenth Amendment.

"So, President-elect Trump expresses this openness to Dreamers, saying he wants to work with Democrats to protect them," said anchor Boris Sanchez. "He made similar remarks in his first term, expressing some openness. But when a deal fell through, his administration tried to end DACA. I wonder what you envision a bipartisan agreement on Dreamers might look like."

"I welcome the president-elect and his hope to find a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers," said Dean. "But as you point out, we have been down this road before, and it's in direct very strange incoherent conflict with what he said later in that interview around birthright citizenship. Imagine he's open to Dreamers' path to citizenship, as am I. It is the right thing to do, it is the economically right thing to do, it is the humane, correct thing to do for this country and for those people. But to say he wants to end the constitutional protection of birthright citizenship? It simply makes no sense."

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Sanchez then noted that multiple senators are trying to get some protections for Dreamers passed executively by the Biden administration on their way out the door, as well as securing people who were given temporary protected status from nations in conflict like Venezuela and Ukraine.

"Is there much President Biden could do that a President Trump couldn't just undo?" asked Sanchez.

"Well, whether or not President-elect Trump undoes, I really do call upon President Biden in these final days to make sure as many folks can be protected as possible," said Dean. "I'm thinking of Ukraine citizens who are here, and many other citizens who are here under temporary protected status. So regardless of what Mr. Trump might do in an upcoming administration, President Biden should do everything to protect TPS holders."

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