At his weekly press briefing, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) was asked about foreign students who have been targeted for deportation.
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00:00Kind of speaks for itself
00:03Thank you later in recent days
00:04We've seen a number of students international students here on visas get detained at Columbia Tufts and today the University of Alabama
00:11Do Democrats have any advice for these students on things they can do to protect themselves from these?
00:16Detainments and what specific actions the Democrats plan to take to combat these recent actions. We are carefully
00:24working with a variety of different advocacy organizations as well as
00:31Our allies in the legal community and where appropriate Democratic Attorney General's to make sure that we are forcefully pushing back
00:38against any
00:40violation of the law
00:42including where
00:45Students on visas and
00:48legal permanent residents as was the case in New York are being
00:52illegally targeted by the Trump administration