Dem lawmaker rips Trump immigration proposals: ‘An extension of the white supremacist agenda’

Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.) is blasting President Trump’s new immigration proposals, calling them an “extension of the white supremacist agenda.”

“I warned Democrats not to negotiate, to say that what we wanted was a clean Dream Act,” Gutiérrez said in an interview with The Washington Post.

“It’s a slippery slope — I never understood why everybody wanted to sit down and negotiate.”

Gutiérrez said no new ground has been broken in negotiations for the past 20 years.

“They’re throwing everything and the kitchen sink in terms of enforcement. I just never understood it,” he said.

He added that Trump “has never wavered from…

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