During Wednesday's new media press briefing, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt answered questions about Trump's immigration policies.
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00:00Thank you so much for having me here, especially as a legal immigrant, because the overwhelming fake news that Hispanics don't support President Trump, but we do.
00:09And we're very excited to have mass deportations because it affects our communities.
00:13My question is about immigration reform and DACA.
00:16During the first Trump administration, we saw that President Trump, like no other president, wanted to make a deal with the Democrats to give a pathway to citizenship to 1.2 million DACA recipients.
00:28I don't know. I haven't really heard anything coming out.
00:31Is there going to be is there any policies surrounding that situation?
00:35And is there going to be immigration reform?
00:38Well, first of all, thanks for sharing your story.
00:41And the president overwhelmingly won the vote of Hispanic Americans in the previous election and swept counties on the border of Texas that are predominantly Hispanic counties.
00:51Because to your very point, Hispanic Americans and legal immigrants to this country from all countries are so sick and tired of seeing work.
01:01We're so sick and tired of seeing the mass invasion of illegal immigrants that was allowed to occur under the previous administration.
01:08And it was an issue the president ran on and he delivered on.
01:13These mass deportations are underway.
01:15And it is currently the position of this administration.
01:18We are focused on removing as many illegal alien criminals from our communities as possible.
01:24And not only are we doing that for law abiding American citizens, but also legal immigrants, as you said, who are citizens now and came here the right way, waited their turn, paid their dues.
01:35It's a slap in the face to them.
01:37And so there's a lot of reforms that need to be made to our legal immigration system.
01:42The president has talked about that.
01:43But our initial focus right now and our priority is cleaning up the mess that the previous administration left us.
01:50And there's there's more work to do.
01:52But a lot of progress has been made thus far.