Democratic Reps. Joe Crowley and Debbie Dingell joined Republican Reps. Will Hurd and Mark Meadows on "Face the Nation" to discuss what Congress needs to do in the new year -- and whether an agreement to protect "Dreamers" will ever be reached.
Crowley, Dingell's fellow Democrat on the panel, agreed that protecting DACA was of utmost importance for his party.
"I think for Democrats we're concerned about certainly pension protection, which is a major issue for us. Also, the Dreamers, the DACA issue,"
Turning the conversation back to DACA, Crowley and Meadow engaged in a heated debate over what to do with the Dreamers and who was responsible for putting them in legal limbo. Crowley blamed President Trump for rescinding Obama's DACA policy, while Meadows countered that DACA would have been struck down by the courts anyway, and must be codified into law through a bipartisan deal.
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Hurd, who represents a massive district along the Texas border, then tried to strike a moderate tone on the issue.
"We can do this together," Hurd said. "We have to do this together. We can have smart solutions to border security. And we can solve this problem in a narrow fashion for these Dreamers who have only known the United States of America as their home."
Hurd added that "nobody's talking about deporting a million kids," a statement Crowley and Dingell both pushed back on.
