For all of their pious pontificating about the nobility of illegal immigrants as people who simply came here in search of a better life for themselves and their families, Democrats and others on the Left in and out of Congress actually have a much more patronizing view in unguarded moments.
While out of one side of their mouths, the Left lionizes illegals as latter-day huddled masses yearning to breathe free, these same leftists speak of the migrants in ways that are condescending or at best utilitarian, even as they fight to block President Donald Trump from deporting them back to their countries of origin.
Most of these liberals, in unscripted moments, appear to be less concerned about the well-being of the millions of illegals the Biden administration allowed to pour into our country unvetted and more concerned about their food supply, even though none of them looks like he or she has ever skipped a meal.
Consider the following quotes, transcribed verbatim from a video compilation circulating on Facebook, the many iterations of which make it impossible to ascertain the original source for attribution. Speaking of Biden, as we were, let’s start with former first son Hunter Biden, who—as is his custom—kept it classy:
HUNTER BIDEN: “How do you think you got food on your f—— table? Who do you think washes your dishes? Who do you think does your f—— garden?”
REP. JIMMY GOMEZ, D-Calif., mocked ICE raids as heartless assaults on “the immigrant workers who feed America.”
REP. NANCY PELOSI, D-Calif.: “Why are you shipping these immigrants up north? We need them here to pick the crops.”
ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS, Biden’s secretary of Department of Homeland Security: “Food is not reaching our table because those who pick the crops have been removed.”
REP. DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, D-Fla.: “I mean, you’re going to have vegetables rotting in the fields.”
REP. JERRY NADLER, D-N.Y.: “Our vegetables would rot in the ground if they weren’t being picked by many illegal immigrants.”
REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ, D-N.Y.: “If you think your groceries are expensive now, wait until the farms are empty.”
REP. PRAMILA JAYAPAL, D-Wash.: “If you look at the food that’s on your table, think about who picked it.”
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN on CNN: “It’s going to deport 20 million people, the people who pick your crops.”
SEN. DICK DURBIN, D-Ill.: “They come with regularity from Mexico, usually, to work in the fields.”
REP. JASMINE CROCKETT, D-Texas: “Those immigrants that come into our country work in the fields, something we ain’t done in a long time.”
JENNA ARNOLD, Democratic strategist: “I can’t wait until American women can’t get blueberries for their smoothies.”
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN on TikTok: “Good news, Red States, you can now pick your own fruits and vegetables in the blazing hot sun for $5 an hour.”
THE RT. REV. MARIANN EDGAR BUDDE, Episcopal bishop of Washington: “The people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings; who labor in poultry farms and meatpacking plants; who wash dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals … .”
ANNA NAVARRO, one of the co-hosts of ABC-TV’s “The View”: “What’s going to happen here is that milk gets a lot higher [in price], because I don’t know if any of you have ever been in a dairy farm, because it is god-awful work.”
KELLY OSBOURNE on “The View”: “If you kick every Latino out of this country, who’s going to be cleaning your toilet, Donald Trump?”
REP. HANK JOHNSON, D-Ga. (best-known for expressing fear that the island of Guam might flip over like a floating Frisbee if too many military personnel were stationed on one side of it): “If we had no immigration, we would have no food on our plates. We would have nobody cleaning up in the hospitals.”
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: “I have friends texting me, like, all morning, ‘My gardener didn’t show up. My housekeeper didn’t show up.’ You’re going to actually have to do some work around your house.”
REP. BECCA BALINT, D-Vt.: “We’re not going to have anyone around to wipe our asses because we don’t have enough people.”
Amid fierce backlash for that crass and demeaning characterization, Balint quasi-apologized for what she called “sloppy and insensitive language.” In truth, however, it was more a case of the Left saying the quiet part out loud, telling us what they really think of illegal immigrants.
“It has been and always will be about protecting immigrants and fighting for dignity and fair wages for every single person in this country,” Balint told the VTDigger.org in an unconvincing attempt at damage control.
That’s patently false, of course, because if the Vermont Democrat and her fellow liberals were genuinely fighting for “fair wages,” they would strenuously oppose illegal immigration—as they did as recently as the Obama administration. Now as then, the labor surplus created by millions of illegal immigrants holds down wages for American citizens—and even for the illegals themselves.
The jobs Americans supposedly “won’t do” would be a lot more attractive if supply and demand and market forces were allowed to play out in the absence of illegals in the workforce and thereby create the “living wages” the Left claims to want for American workers.
