Posted on 10/01/2022 5:47:10 AM PDT by McGruff
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday that Republican governors should welcome the influx of migrants coming across the southern border because they can “pick the crops,” in their states.
“We have a shortage of workers in our country, and you see even in Florida, some of the farmers and the growers are saying, ‘Why are you shipping these immigrants up north? We need them to pick the crops down here,'” she said at a press briefing.
Pelosi also accused Republicans of hypocrisy on the issue, conflating their past support for legal immigration with an endorsement of illegal immigration.
“Our nation is great because we are a nation of immigrants — but don’t take it from me, listen to Ronald Reagan. When I quote Ronald Reagan to my Republican colleagues, he doesn’t get any applause. Can you imagine that?” she asked.
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How very nice of you Nancy to suggest they can pick cotton.
Further insight into the minds of the Leftist socialist progressives.....
That woman is out of her cotton pickin’ mind.
Isn’t it ILLEGAL to hire illegals?
Typical Democrat slaveowner mentality.
How can they pick Mexican limes and Chilean lemons if they are in the USA?
And don’t leave the Guatemalan cantaloupes on the vines either.
Hire them to pick grapes in your vineyard, Nancy.
Next thing ya know....the Dems will be unionizing illegals.
Nancy really wants to be a drug dealer kingpin.
Thought experiment: Imagine this headline.
"Mitch McConnell Argues Democrat States Should Let Illegal Immigrants Stay to ‘Pick the Crops’"
What would be the reaction of the NY Times? The Washington Post? MSNBC? CNN?
Yassah Massa Nancy.
Send them over to pick Nancy’s grapes
The Democratic party has ALWAYS been the true home of the REAL racists.
The very personification of a Plantation Democrat
Democrats get really upset when I ask them if they are ever embarrassed to make the same arguments for open borders - “We need them for cheap labor” - that Democrats made for keeping slaves. Maybe they could try paying “a living wage” to hire U.S. citizens to clean their houses, mow their lawns, and take care of their children.
Should pick our own crops, shoulda picked our own cotton.
“We have a shortage of workers in our country, and you see even in Florida, some of the farmers and the growers are saying, ‘Why are you shipping these immigrants up north? We need them to pick the crops down here,’” she said at a press briefing.
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Wow. That doesn’t sound the least bit racist of elitist.
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