House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is facing criticism on multiple fronts this weekend. Pelosi, for all of her controversies, is regarded as a shrewd power broker in Washington, D.C. Despite her tactical acumen, Democrat leadership was unable to pass a toothless bill to supposedly ban members of Congress and their spouses from trading stocks. This political failure was exacerbated by Pelosi's gaffe on Friday when, in response to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' decision to send migrants to Massachusetts, the California Democrat said migrants were needed in Florida to “pick the crops.”
For many, Pelosi's remarks highlight ugly stereotypes that tacitly condone illegal immigration.
Pelosi, 82, proceeded to conflate legal and illegal immigration, seemingly unconcerned about the backlash of the Democratic Party's perceived support for open borders in the midterms.
The Daily Wire has more on the fallout:
Pelosi's remarks generated some of the following responses from notable figures:
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ): “It's clear Pelosi and Democrats are exploiting illegal aliens and only view them as cheap labor. This is what real racism looks like.”
Caleb Hull, digital strategist: “I want you to imagine for a second what would happen if Trump said ‘we need the immigrants down south to pick our crops' instead of Pelosi.”
Miranda Devine, author: “Apart from the fact she can't speak properly, and is nasty, it's illegal to employ illegal migrants. It's also disastrous for a country not to make a distinction between legal and illegal migration. At least we have less than six weeks left of this piece of Pelosi.”
Additional responses came cascading in on Twitter:
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Do you suppose we really need another 4 million illegal immigrants just to pick Florida’s crops? What about the people, mostly legal I’ll bet, who pick them now? Are we going to fire them so we can hire illegals? Is this woman as senile as Joe, our moron in chief? Somebody needs to ask these questions on CNN, ABC, CBS, you know, the propaganda outlets. But no one has the guts to, on those shows, they are all bought and paid for by the left.
Pelosi needs people to clean her toilet, wash her dishes, do her laundry and do the gardening because she and her husband are too busy with insider trading. Of course we need more illegals!
the ‘toothless’ trading bill was never going to be passed again. are they really supposed to just live on the salaries that they vote themselves? come on man!