AFL-CIO delegates denounced President Obama’s record on illegal immigrant deportations Tuesday, saying the White House should put the brakes on the process while Congress is debating a comprehensive reform bill.

“When we have a bill for 11 million immigrants to become full Americans, we should not be, in the middle of this, deporting them,” said Tefere Gebre, director of the Orange County Labor Federation, at a press conference during the AFL-CIO’s quadrennial convention in Los Angeles. Gebre was joined by “several of the nation’s top labor leaders,” according to the L.A. Times.