Conservatives are criticizing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., for claiming that Florida would need illegal immigrants nearby to “pick the crops down here,” concluding a disastrous week of rhetorical slip-ups by the party’s leadership.
Initially, Vice President Kamala Harris stated the rogue North Korean totalitarian regime was in an “alliance” with the United States, and then President Joe Biden asked for a woman he seemed to forget had died in a vehicle accident.
Pelosi is now coming under fire for saying that immigrants are helpful to “pick the crops.”
Pelosi tried to make a statement on the need to “recognize the value of newcomers to our nation,” but she was criticized for being racist by others, including the Republican National Committee.
For Democrats, mass immigration checks two boxes:
— FAIR (@FAIRImmigration) September 30, 2022
1. More future voters
2. Cheap foreign labor https://t.co/X4e0oQNZnf
The RNC Latinos Twitter account criticized Nancy Pelosi by writing, “Nancy Pelosi thinks immigrants should be tending crops.” “Believe Democrats when they reveal their true colors.”
Florida GOP governor Ron DeSantis came under fire for taking two chartered planes to Martha’s Vineyard and allocating $12 million for the relocation of illegal immigrants to refuge states and neighborhoods in the northern blue states.
After generations of legislative gridlock on immigration reform, what Republicans criticize as uncontrolled borders has prompted even a Democratic leader to recognize that long-overdue border security is finally required. Under President Joe Biden, there was a record number of border apprehensions—more than 2 million—over the course of the previous 12 months.
According to Pelosi, comprehensive immigration reform is currently the most effective action we can take for our economy.
Republicans have long threatened Democrats that they want more immigrants in the country so that they will eventually support them more frequently.
The Federation for American Immigration Reform tweeted on Friday, “Mass immigration checks two boxes for Democrats: 1. More potential votes 2. Cheap foreign labor. “
But according to Republican strategists, the GOP can’t have Democrats use its storylines to win the November elections.
Republican strategist Nathan Wurtzel tweeted, “Hard to believe immigrants who have become citizens are starting to vote Republican when the head of the House Democrat Party views them merely as fruit pickers.”
Republicans pointed out that if Donald Trump had said something like Pelosi did, there would have been more attacks on him, as Newsmax anchor Rob Schmitt said on “Rob Schmitt Tonight.”