“We are facing a reckless, irresponsible administration that creates chaos and confusion — which is bad,” Eskelsen Garcia told the National Press Club. “But [Trump] does something worse: He creates fear in children. And that is unforgivable. For the first time in our country’s history — and I’ve talked to these teachers — we have had to comfort crying children because they are afraid of their president.”
Eskelsen Garcia, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress from Utah as a Democrat nearly 20 years ago, zeroed in specifically on Trump’s decision this week to phase out the Obama-era program Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.