‘Word Games’: ‘The Five’ Guests Say Democrats Have Power To Do Something About Deportations Besides Whining

Fox News’ Dana Perino and Charles Hurt slammed Democrats on “The Five” Thursday, saying they continue to complain about President Donald Trump’s illegal immigration crackdown despite having the power to change the laws.

As Democrats continue to support allowing illegal migrants to remain in the country, Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett went on a bizarre rant Wednesday during a hearing, questioning First Lady Melania Trump’s citizenship. While discussing Democrat pushback to Trump’s immigration agenda, Perino said lawmakers are in the “perfect position” to change the laws if they actually disagree with them. (RELATED: ‘Biggest Concern I’ve Ever Had’: Tom Homan Tells Hannity What Has Him Worried About Previous Administration)

“Crossing the border illegally or overstaying your visa illegally is illegal,” Perino said. “If they want to change that, they’re in the perfect position to do that. They are in Congress. In addition, I think Jazzy, which I learned, that’s who they call her [Rep. Jasmine Crockett] on the Gutfeld show when I was on last night. What a perfect person to say ‘Mr. President. Can I come see you? I’d like a word. I’d like to bring a couple people. We have an idea.’”

“Donald Trump would say ‘Yeah, sure come on. Let’s have a conversation’ And if they went and said ‘We’re concerned about these guys. We know they crossed over illegally. OK, they should pay a price for that, but they’ve been lawful ever since. They have kids here. Is there something we could do? Is there something we could put into this big beautiful bill that might pass your muster that you’d be OK with? Could I work with you? Could I try to bring enough Democrats to vote with on something like this?’ If they wanted to come to a solution, they have the perfect person in the Oval Office in order to do that,” Perino added.

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During Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing, Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett drew backlash from Republicans after mocking First Lady Melania Trump’s EB-1 visa, referring to it as the “Einstein Visa.” Crockett asked why GOP lawmakers weren’t investigating the “lack of integrity when it comes to the president’s family’s visas.”

Democrats have long opposed Trump’s vow to deport illegal migrants, a core part of his campaign agenda. In April, a handful of Democrats began to rally behind Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, an illegal migrant deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration.

Despite alleged ties to the MS-13 gang and possible human trafficking, some Democrat lawmakers took taxpayer-funded trips to El Salvador to advocate on his behalf.

“Of course we saw it in the first term, where President Trump tried to make a deal with the Dreamers. Of course, Democrats didn’t want to do that because they want the issue and not the solution,” Hurt said. “Look, if you want to know when people have absolutely nothing constructive to do, they start playing word games.”

“When you start playing word games with ‘illegal alien,’ by the way, ‘illegal alien’ is the actual term. It’s in federal code, so they could change that when they’re changing the rules,” Hurt said. “When you’re playing word games you don’t actually have a solution, and this is why voters have thrown them out of power from the Senate and the White House. And I look at them as being fundamentally unserious on important issues that matter to them.”

A new poll shows a majority of Hispanic voters still support key elements of Trump’s agenda.

According to an online poll conducted by the League of American Workers and the TechnoMetrica Institute of Policy and Politics, nearly six in 10 registered voters surveyed — including 53% of Hispanic respondents — said they support increasing the “pace of deportations… prioritizing individuals with criminal records.”

Data from the White House’s 100-day progress report shows that, compared to the Biden administration — which allowed millions of illegal migrants into the U.S. — daily border encounters have dropped 93%, and migrant crossings are down 99.99%.

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