Hakeem Jeffries Tells 'the View' Ice Is Going After 'law-abiding Immigrant Families'

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Monday during an question and reply connected "The View" that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was going aft "law-abiding migrant families," and didn't disregard calls from different members of his statement to defund it.

"The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin pressed Jeffries connected whether he supported calls to defund ICE and if it was an effective connection for Democrats heading into nan 2026 midterms. 

"Well, I decidedly deliberation that we request fierce oversight arsenic it relates to nan overly fierce behaviour that we’re seeing from ICE, from nan Department of Homeland Security," he told nan hosts. 

"Donald Trump and Republicans promised to spell aft convulsive felons, but alternatively they’re going aft law-abiding migrant families. And successful fact, successful immoderate cases, deporting American citizens and children, immoderate pinch cancer. And America is amended than this, and that’s nan reality," Jeffries continued. 

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Rep. Hakeem Jeffries joined nan co-hosts of "The View" connected Monday, July 7, 2025. (ABC/TheView)

Jeffries besides responded to a mobility from co-host Ana Navarro, who pressed him connected what he would opportunity to Latinos who consciousness hopeless astir nan Trump administration's migration policies. 

"We are seeing benignant of an unprecedented flood of extremism being unleashed connected nan American group and it’s happened from nan very beginning," he said of Trump. 

"But I deliberation we tin ne'er suffer dream successful nan resilience of nan American group to look turbulence, and this is an incredibly turbulent moment, but to powerfulness our measurement done it and to travel retired stronger connected nan different side. It’s not to opportunity it’s going to beryllium easy. It will beryllium challenging, but I still judge successful nan basal goodness of nan American people," Jeffries added.

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Residents situation national and Border Patrol agents who scheme their flight aft an migrant ambush connected Atlantic Blvd. successful nan metropolis of Bell connected June 19, 2025.  (Getty Images)

Jeffries said it was important to unafraid nan border, but besides said Congress needed to hole nan surgery migration system. 

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He told nan co-hosts, "As House Democrats, our position is that while we activity connected making judge that nan separator tin stay secure, while we activity to hole our surgery migration system, we besides are going to guidelines up for dreamers, workplace workers and for law-abiding migrant families astatine each times."