House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attempted to take a shot at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Friday by suggesting he should stop "shipping these immigrants up north" when farmers in Florida need them "to pick the crops" amid labor shortages.
"We have a shortage of workers in our country and you see even in Florida, some of the farmers and the growers saying 'why are you shipping these, um, imm-, immigrants up north?' We need them to pick the crops down here."
\u201cNancy Pelosi:\n\n"In Florida, some of the farmers and the growers are saying \u2018why are you shipping these immigrants up North? We need them to pick the crops down here.\u2019\u201d\u201d— TheBlaze (@TheBlaze) 1664553173
Twitter had a few things to say about Pelosi's blatantly racist assertion:
\u201c@theblaze Hell she can\u2019t complete a sentence. First off time for her to go. Nobody is talking about the deposit of immigrants in towns across this country in the middle of the night. The governor of Florida is a true leader who is protecting his state! Good for him!\u201d— TheBlaze (@TheBlaze) 1664553173
\u201c@theblaze So...openly saying they should be slave labor....amazing....not a surprise from an elitist ...but amazing she says it outloud knowing there would be no pushback from the complicit press\u201d— TheBlaze (@TheBlaze) 1664553173
\u201c@theblaze You let these leftists speak long enough, they will eventually \u201cslip up\u201d and show their true racist colors.\u201d— TheBlaze (@TheBlaze) 1664553173
\u201c@theblaze We wouldn\u2019t have a shortage of workers if we would quit giving stuff away. Make people earn what they get\u201d— TheBlaze (@TheBlaze) 1664553173
\u201c@HelenMKatt @theblaze She owns grape fields. It's illegal to hire illegals. She should know that. How racist.\u201d— TheBlaze (@TheBlaze) 1664553173
\u201c@theblaze Another day goes by where she can say anything and the media won\u2019t flinch. If Trump said this holy shit, it\u2019d be on the news for months\u201d— TheBlaze (@TheBlaze) 1664553173
\u201c@townhallcom Such a racist statement and not true.\u201d— Townhall.com (@Townhall.com) 1664552899
\u201c@townhallcom Holy shit did she just say that? True racism, just rolls off the tongue without fore thought.\u201d— Townhall.com (@Townhall.com) 1664552899
\u201c@townhallcom They just said the quiet part out loud.\u201d— Townhall.com (@Townhall.com) 1664552899
Asked about whether the southern border is secure, Pelosi said, "I believe that we have to have a secure border, and I think that we are trying to address, uh, the president has a plan to address that."
She went on to suggest that former President Donald Trump — whom she bitterly referred to as an "occasional occupant of the White House who preceded President Biden" — is to blame for the current border crisis, which has seen a record 3.8 million migrant encounters since President Joe Biden took office.
Pelosi then said something incoherent about having a responsibility to accept some of "these people" who "are either here to stay or not" but that "protecting the border is our responsibility" and, of course, that's exactly what the current administration "is doing."
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