Rep. Luis Gutierrez said Democrats support paying “hostage takers” for the U.S.-Mexico border wall in order to save recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

“Look, I think the wall is a monumental waste of taxpayers’ money, it’s to build a monument to stupidity,” the Illinois Democrat said on ABC News Sunday morning. “Having said that, if that’s what it’s going to take in order to put 800,000 young men and women in this country — Dreamers — and put them in a safe place, and put them on a course to full integration in our society, I say pay it.”