Gutierrez on Negotiating with GOP and Trump on DREAMers: ‘I Don’t Negotiate With Hostage-Takers’

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “MTP Daily,” Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) responded to a question on negotiating with Republicans on a deal for DREAMers by stating, “I don’t negotiate with hostage-takers.” Gutierrez said, “[I]f we’re going to take DREAMers, and we’re going to extol their values and their contributions and we’re going to tell the world how importantly special they are, which I believe in the core of my heart, then we also have to defend them with the same kind of tenacity and with the same kind of rigor. And that’s all I’m saying to Democrats, don’t take DREAMers, as we have to the 2012 and 2016…convention, and said, ‘Here they are. They’re our best and our finest.’ And let them down by joining Republicans and not allowing them to live in a free space and allowing them to get out of this hostage situation that they find themselves in and become citizens of the United States. Because those kids, Katy, are as American as my children, in everything but a piece of paper. And just like my — this is Christmas, Katy. What does anybody think you should do in a meeting days before Christmas? It’s a holiday season