House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Nancy PelosiHoyer: House should vote on COVID-19 aid — with or without a bipartisan deal Ruth Bader Ginsburg lies in repose at Supreme Court McCarthy threatens motion to oust Pelosi if she moves forward with impeachment MORE (D-Calif.) said Thursday that President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests MORE’s new immigration plan is “dead on arrival” and “not a remotely serious proposal."

Her criticisms come shortly after the president unveiled the plan to shift the country toward a “merit-based” system that would favor highly skilled workers over migrants with family members residing in the country.

The California Democrat called for bipartisan comprehensive immigration reforms, and said Trump's proposal mirrored the conservative-backed policies that were previously rejected by Congress.

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“The White House has repackaged the worst of its past failed immigration plans: greenlighting the Administration’s barbaric family detention policies, reviving the President’s ineffective and wasteful wall, completely abandoning our patriotic and determined Dreamers and gutting our asylum and refugee protections," she said in a statement. “To say that this plan’s application criteria are ‘merit-based’ is the height of condescension.”

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer Steny Hamilton HoyerOVERNIGHT ENERGY: California seeks to sell only electric cars by 2035 | EPA threatens to close New York City office after Trump threats to 'anarchist' cities | House energy package sparks criticism from left and right House energy package sparks criticism from left and right Hoyer: House should vote on COVID-19 aid — with or without a bipartisan deal MORE (D-Md.) echoed Pelosi’s sentiments, saying that the president is peddling “xenophobic and false stereotypes about immigrants from certain parts of the world.”

“With this announcement, we also see this President’s continued disrespect for the principle of keeping families together. We saw it when he ended the DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals] program, creating a crisis that this proposal ignores. We saw it with the horrific and inhumane family separation policy last year at the border, which tore crying children from their parents’ arms without any plan to reunite them,” he said.

“Now, we see this Administration attempting to prevent those already here from sponsoring their loved-ones for immigration, an exclusionary practice that does not comport with Americans’ values about families and community.”

Top Democrats have called for any immigration plan to include protections for young immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children — known as Dreamers — and a pathway to citizenship.