A California Democrat whose district and constituents have been targeted by ICE raids took a shot at first lady Melania Trump after President Donald Trump said that ICE should continue its aggressive policies, The Daily Beast reports Monday.
Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), who represents the Golden State's 34th District, wrote this on X:
"Haven't gone far enough?? Any further and ICE will be deporting Melania..."
Gomez was responding to Trump's comments about his cruel immigration policies — and how he thinks they could be harsher — in a "60 Minutes" interview Sunday.
Melania Trump was born in Slovenia and moved to the United States in 1996. She became a citizen in 2006, just a year after marrying Donald Trump. The 55-year-old first lady cannot be deported; however, her husband has suggested that he could fly American citizens to prisons abroad, including ones in El Salvador.
"Americans have been watching videos of ICE tackling a young mother, tear gas being used in a Chicago residential neighborhood, and the smashing of car windows. Have some of these raids gone too far?” CBS host Norah O'Donnell asked Trump.
“I think they haven’t gone far enough because we’ve been held back by the judges, by the liberal judges that were put in by [former presidents Joe] Biden and by [Barack] Obama," Trump responded.
“A lot of the people that your administration has arrested and deported aren’t violent criminals,” O'Donnell said. “[They are] landscapers, nannies, construction workers, the families of service members.”
The CBS host asked if he intended to deport people who do not have criminal records.
"We have to start off with a policy, and the policy has to be, you came into the country illegally, you’re going to go out. However, you’ve also seen—you’re going to go out. We’re going to work with you, and you’re going to come back into our country legally," Trump said.