Dem congressman quips ‘any further and they’ll deport Melania’ as Trump calls for tougher ICE action

WASHINGTON, DC: A California congressman grabbed headlines on Monday, November 3, for trolling first lady Melania Trump after her husband insisted that ICE raids aren’t “tough enough.”

Rep Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), whose district has been heavily affected by immigration raids, couldn’t resist firing off a jab following President Donald Trump’s controversial comments on '60 Minutes.'

“Haven’t gone far enough?? Any further and ICE will be deporting Melania...” Gomez quipped on X.

The congressman was responding to the president’s latest hardline immigration remarks on the CBS program. It’s worth noting that Melania wasn’t born in the US; she’s a Slovenian immigrant who moved to the country in 1996 and gained citizenship in 2006, a year after marrying the then–real estate mogul.

Trump says ICE raids 'haven’t gone far enough’

During Sunday’s '60 Minutes' sit-down, CBS anchor Norah O’Donnell grilled Trump about the videos Americans have seen of ICE agents tackling a young mother, tear gas wafting through a Chicago neighborhood, and car windows smashed during raids. “Have some of these raids gone too far?” O’Donnell asked.

“I think they haven’t gone far enough because we’ve been held back by the judges, by the liberal judges that were put in by [former presidents Joe] Biden and by [Barack] Obama,” Trump shot back.

The president insisted the agents were simply doing their jobs, removing the “worst of the worst.”

“Many of them are murderers. Many of them are people that were thrown outta their countries because they were, you know, criminals. Many of them are people from jails and prisons. Many of them are people from frankly, mental institutions,” he said.

O’Donnell didn’t let him off the hook. “A lot of the people that your administration has arrested and deported aren’t violent criminals,” she countered. “[They are] landscapers, nannies, construction workers, the families of service members.”

Trump claimed those without records could still be reassessed. “We have to start off with a policy, and the policy has to be, you came into the country illegally, you’re going to go out,” he said. “However, you’ve also seen, you’re going to go out. We’re going to work with you, and you’re going to come back into our country legally.”

Trump has previously floated ideas such as sending US citizens to foreign prisons. During one of his past rants, he even mused about flying Americans to detention facilities abroad, including those in El Salvador.  

Trump doubles down on shutdown blame toward Democrats

Amid discussions on immigration, Trump also veered off to criticize Democrats over the ongoing government shutdown, blaming their “Trump derangement syndrome” for the stalemate.

“I mean, the Republicans are voting almost unanimously to end it, and the Democrats keep voting against ending it. You know, they’ve never had this,” he said. “They are losing so much that they don’t know what to do. They’ve lost their way. They’ve become crazed lunatics,” he quipped.

When asked what he could personally do to break the gridlock, Trump replied, “All I can do is give the facts.”

“Here’s what I can’t do,” he declared. “I can’t give them $1.5 trillion so that they can give welfare to people that came into our country illegally. So that prisoners, and that people from mental institutions, and people that are drug dealers get vast amounts of money for healthcare. That I can’t do.”

However, Trump promised that if Democrats reopened the government, he would work with them to improve healthcare, particularly by reforming Obamacare.

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