Nancy Pelosi takes credit for Trump calling off immigration raids before he dropped them saying she told him: 'You're scaring the children of America.' By Katelyn Caralle, U.s. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com Published: 20:31 BST, 24 June 2019 | Updated: 20:31 BST, 24 June 2019 Viewcomments Nancy Pelosi said Monday she was able to convince Donald Trump to cancel planned raids on illegal immigrants this weekend by telling him he was scaring children in the U.S. The House Speaker phoned the president Friday evening and plead for him to call off Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportations and arrests scheduled for Sunday, telling Trump Congress needed more time to work on a solution to address issues at the southern border. 'When I spoke to the president, I said ''Look, I'm a mom, I have five kids, seven, nine grandchildren and children are scared,'' Pelosi said recalled her conversation with Trump during an event in New York hosted by Democratic Congresswoman Grace Meng. ''You're scaring the children of America, not just in those families but their neighbors and their communities. You're scaring the children,'' she said she told him. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took credit for President Donald Trump calling off planned ICE raids on illegal immigrant families Pelosi said Monday that in a phone call with Trump Friday she told the president he's 'scaring the children of America' White House Deputy Press Secretary Judd Deere confirmed the phone call took place. Trump ended up pulling back on the raids a day after speaking with Pelosi and just hours after voicing his support of the coordinated deportations. In defending them he argued that the families that would have been targeted in the weekend raids were those who have been dodging the law. 'The people that Ice will apprehend have already been ordered to be deported,' Trump tweeted. 'This means that they have run from the law and run from the courts. These are people that are supposed to go back to their home country. They broke the law by coming into the country, & now by staying.' The raids were slated to take place in 10 U.S. cities and would have likely impacted at least 2,000 migrant families. Pelosi said on Saturday that the raids were a 'brutal action which will tear families apart and inject terror in our communities.' The president announced on Twitter later in the day Saturday that he would delay the raids by two weeks to give Democrats in Congress a chance for a bipartisan agreement on how to deal with the border crisis. On Saturday Trump called off the planned deportations and arrests, saying he wanted to give those in Congress more time to come to a bipartisan agreement on how to deal with the crisis at the southern border 'At the request of Democrats, I have delayed the Illegal Immigration Removal Process (Deportation) for two weeks to see if the Democrats and Republicans can get together and work out a solution to the Asylum and Loophole problems at the Southern Border,'' Trump tweeted. 'If not, Deportations start!' 'I mean it's so appalling,' Pelosi said of the plans while speaking on Monday. 'It's outside the circle of civilized human behavior, to just be kicking down doors, splitting up families and the rest of that,' she continued. Earlier this year, Trump declared a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico after failing to secure funds for construction of the border wall in a spending bill. He said there was a humanitarian crisis that Democrats refused to acknowledge or fund remedies for – he referenced an influx in illegal immigration, crime, human trafficking and drug smuggling when declaring an emergency. Arguments over providing funding in a spending bill caused the government to go into partial shutdown for 35 days – the longest in U.S. history. Share or comment on this article: All rights reserved for this news site dailymail and under his responsibility