Progressive Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) is calling for illegal immigrants to be paid reparations over alleged trauma they sustained from the Trump administration’s crackdown and ICE operations across the US.
Jayapal made the shocking revelation on Friday in front of a panel of “experts” during a hearing she hosted titled “Kidnapped and Disappeared: Trump’s Attack on Children.”
“We are going to have to have some form of reparation for the kids and the families that have been traumatized through all of this,” Jayapal said at the conclusion of the hearing.
The 60-year-old lawmaker, who was born in India and obtained her US citizenship in 2000, has been a vocal critic of President Trump and his immigration crackdown.
Trump’s Department of Homeland Security launched multiple ICE operations to root out illegal immigrants, but led to violent clashes between federal officials and pro-immigration protesters, including the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota.
Jayapal serves as the ranking member of the House Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement.
She threatened to move forward with her reparations proposal if the Democrats win back control of the House and elect her to lead the subcommittee.
“If I am chair of the immigration subcommittee, we will be pursuing all of these pieces,” Jayapal indicated.
“We need offensive actions around prosecutions. We need real accountability because at the end of the day, the people that have been inflicting this harm need to be prosecuted,” Jayapal said. “They need to be brought before us and they need to be held account for the trauma that they have created.
Democrat Rep. Pramila Jayapal calls for taxpayer-funded reparations for illegals.
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 27, 2026
JAYAPAL: “The people that have been inflicting this harm need to be prosecuted... we are going to have to have some form of reparation." pic.twitter.com/GhkFLCr1yP
In Jaypal’s half-baked proposal, the reparations would be used to fund “support” for the people who didn’t receive relief following their interactions with immigration officials. --->READ MORE HERE
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The top Democrat on the House’s immigration committee wants to compensate illegal migrants and also punish American law enforcement officers for enforcing Congress’s immigration laws.
“The people that have been inflicting this harm [on migrants] need to be prosecuted,” Indian immigrant Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) said Friday at a “shadow hearing” she hosted. “They need to be brought before us, and they need to be held account [sic] for the trauma that they have created, and we are going to have to have some form of reparation for the kids and the families that have been traumatized through all of this.”
Jayapal’s March 27 comments spotlight the apparent emotional horror that many progressives feel towards the enforcement of United States borders and citizenship rules.
Progressive empathy for illegal migrants — including criminal migrants — has largely replaced the left-wing empathy for poorer citizens, such as industrial workers in the 1930s or many African-Americans in the 1960s.
But this recent redirection of empathy from citizens towards illegal migrants is a fundamental attack on American society — because it rejects the preferential and reciprocal obligations among American citizens. --->READ MORE HERE
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