Democrat on the Migrant Crisis: We Need Them to Pick Our Vegetables
New Yorker testifies in front of Congress and gives firsthand account of the crisis
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As the migrant crisis reaches a fever pitch, Democrats are attempting to parry and redirect blame for a humanitarian catastrophe they themselves have created.
Congressman Jerry Nadler, representing Manhattan’s Upper West Side in New York City, showed as much at a recent hearing held by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement.
“Instead of working with Democrats towards reasonable, workable, bipartisan changes to the immigration system, Republicans will return to their tired playbook and use this subcommittee to demonize immigrants,” 76-year-old Nadler alleged.
“Real solutions require compromise, and MAGA Republicans aren’t interested in compromise… They won’t get you Donald Trump’s endorsement,” he continued.
Nadler said that the enforcement approach has apparently failed for three decades, citing how Trump strict policies didn’t stop immigrants from crossing the border.
California Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal echoed the party line at the hearing, labeling Americans’ genuine concerns as “fear-mongering.” She argued the Biden administration is in fact enforcing immigration law, even in a way that’s a bit too much for her tastes.
“In fact, the administration has been so heavy-handed in recent months that I have serious concerns about how they are conducting border enforcement,” Jayapal said.
While Open Border activists like Nadler and Jayapal attempt to couch their destructive policies within manipulative rhetoric of “inclusion” and “compassion,” everyday Americans and New Yorkers are encountering a far different reality.
December broke new ground for the U.S. Border Patrol, which took into custody and processed 225,000 illegal border crossers. The average per month under Trump was about 51,000.
Trump did not fare well in reducing illegal immigration to the United States during his time in the White House. But, like many of his first-term ambitions, they met stiff resistance from Democrat-led cities like New York, whose activist political machines refused to cooperate with ICE.
But Americans’ genuine concerns do not matter to party operatives like Nadler. For all their pronouncements for being enlightened on race relations, Nadler perfectly exemplifies the racism that progressives so often pathologically project onto others:
“We need immigrants in this country… Our vegetables would rot in the ground if they weren’t being picked by many immigrants, many illegal immigrants. The fact is that the birthrate in this country is way below replacement level, which means our population is going to start shrinking,” Nadler said.
It’s actually impressive how Nadler can be racist toward both Hispanics, casting them as mere crop pickers, while also denigrating American whites as needing to be replaced by immigrants.
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To introduce some actual truth into the hearing, Danyela Souza Egorov, public school parent and vice president of the Community Education Council for NYC School District 2, explained in her testimony how the migrant crisis is threatening our city.
She recounted how James Madison High School students were kicked out of their own school to accommodate migrants fleeing the flooded Floyd Bennett Field last week.
“This made headlines across the nation, but it is what New Yorkers have been dealing with since this crisis started. Our city has received over 160,000 migrants in the past year, and this has had a devastating impact on the city’s finances and social services,” she said.
“In 2023 alone, New York City spent over $5 billion to provide housing and other services for new migrants.”
Danyela — who legally immigrated from Brazil in 2003 — also highlighted how the current crisis flies in the face of legal immigrants like herself and her Ukrainian husband. After Russia invaded his grandparents’ hometown in February 2022, they faced an extensive vetting process to escape to the U.S. that took three months, while they endured the front line of a deadly war that even took the lives of eight of their neighbors.
As direct impacts on NYC students, she also cited the cancellation of public school safety officers, the inability for principals to adequately hire ESL teachers, and a shortage of special education paraprofessionals.
With migrants’ asylum appointments scheduled up to a decade from now, and an estimated $5 billion per year in costs, Danyela voiced what’s on all our minds:
“New Yorkers want to know what is the plan to end this crisis.”
Like many progressive ambitions, there is no plan to support actual Americans. Their only plan is a political one: import a permanent subclass of dependents to edify Democratic power at the expense of both Americans and the illegal migrants.
Nadler drew upon 20th Century Ellis Island as an analog for justifying today’s de facto invasion. It ignores the fact that we live in a radically different New York that simply does not have the same opportunities as it once did. As we all know by now, many New Yorkers themselves are desperately struggling to make ends meet in a stagnant economy.
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And, perhaps worst of all, the progressives’ cavalier attitude to immigration enforcement disregards the insidious criminality that the free-for-all Southern Border enables on a daily basis.
We’re seeing drugged children smuggled across. Sexual assault is endemic, with some reports estimating that 6 in 10 migrant women and girls are raped during the already dangerous crossing. Despite progressives’ talking points over “family separation” at the border, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime notes that “all smuggling of children, and a significant proportion of child trafficking, occurs in the context of child migration.”
As a direct result, we’re seeing sex trafficking and prostitution flourish within the five boroughs.
While real New Yorkers like Danyela bravely tell the truth about the migrant crisis with their own firsthand experience, Nadler and company will disregard their constituents’ concerns to prioritize the so-called “migrants.” They do so not out of humanitarian concern, but to cement their wavering grasp on power as Americans begin to wake up to the utopian sham of progressive dreams.
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