In a groan-inducing segment on “The Lead,” with Jake Tapper, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) complained about President Trump’s latest immigration victory. Steven Miller announced a program that would pay illegal immigrants $1,000 to voluntarily leave the country, prompting an epic meltdown from the Texas Democrat.
For context, Trump has long made securing the border a top priority, and with help from Border Czar Tom Homan and Steven Miller, has accomplished many of his ambitious goals. Not surprisingly, Democrats have been melting down in the face of a strong and united Republican Party.
Such was shown when Jake Tapper began her TDS freak out on May 5, 2025. Beginning the segment, he said, “So President Trump says his administration’s latest self deportation policy will allow some migrants a potential path back to the US. DHS also says it will pay an additional $1,000 to people who verify that they have left the US, people in this country illegally, who have left the US and have returned to their home country. I want you to listen to what White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said about this a few days ago:”
Explaining the creative program, Steven Miller laid out the details. He said, “A single illegal alien family over the course of his lifetime may cost the US taxpayers over $1 million so when you give an illegal immigrant a check for, say, $1,000 or $2,000 whatever it may be, $3,000 to leave the country, you’re saving taxpayers hundreds of 1000s of dollars. It’s also saves money relative to us having to go out and find that illegal alien and physically arrest them and deport them.”
Reacting to Miller’s strong leadership, Jasmine Crockett lost it live on air. She said, “I wouldn’t trust this administration for anything. First of all, they are terrible about paying their bills. Number one. Number two, most of those people that have come over, regardless of what this administration said, they came over because they were fleeing things such as the fact that they don’t have the opportunity to work and earn a living, or they’re fleeing political violence.”
Continuing her worker screed, the Democrat questioned the effectiveness of this program. She whined, “And so what is $1,000 if you’re going back to a place where you may lose your life, they risk their lives, many of them coming over here in the first place. That’s number one.”
Hilariously flubbing her words, Crockett said, “Number two, I want to see some numbers. Where in the heck did you just pull this number out of your back pocket saying that they’re costing us approximately $100 million the one, I’m sorry, not $100 million a million dollars for each undocumented person.”
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Concluding her woke remarks with a series of wild allegations, the far-left representative claimed, “You know why? Because they’ve been working and they’ve been doing the jobs that now they want to roll back child labor protections and make sure that poor children are the ones that are doing those jobs. Because now we’re going to have those vacancies, if we’re going to have jobs left at all, as we continue to endure the grind of this failed experiment around this tariff war.”
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