President Donald Trump "hit it right" when he referred to the Supreme Court's ruling that he improperly ended DACA in 2017 as a delay rather than a loss, Acting Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Ken Cuccinelli said Friday.
"He said we have got to go back to square one and we will," Cuccinelli said on Fox News' "Fox and Friends," adding that it wasn't Trump who walked away from trying to find a solution to the issue, but instead, it was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
"They have been using the folks in DACA for over a decade as political pawns and the president has tried to solve the problem," said Cuccinelli.
He said he also finds it "amazing" to keep an "illegal program" like DACA in place, and ridiculed news reports that Schumer cried when he heard the court's decision.
"Sadly, it would have been pathetic tears of joy at keeping this festering illegal wound alive so that he could continue to toy with these people, unlike the president, who is trying to solve the problem," said Cuccinelli.
Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security will put options in front of Trump, but the "appropriate solution," mentioned by the Supreme Court would be for Congress to step in, he said.
"Sen. (Dick) Durbin made some positive noises in that direction yesterday, so maybe we will see some return to the table and have a constructive discussion. The president has always been ready to have that discussion but the other side abandoned it."
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