Pelosi on record border numbers: "We need them to pick the crops"

Speaker Pelosi was asked this week if she was discouraging Democratic members of Congress from expressing concern over the historic crisis at the border. Pelosi responded by citing a shortage of workers in our country, and, as an example, said Florida agriculture needed illegal workers to pick the crops.

Pelosis comments were widely criticized, but they are consistent with the message sent by other Democratic leaders in Congress.

In March of 2021, when the administrations policies were already clearly leading to a surge at the border, House Judiciary Chair Jerrold Nadler said the real crisis consists of a shortage of workers.

Earlier this year, Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin joined other Democrats in saying that the best way to fight inflation would be to increase immigration to slow wage growth.

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No response to the comments by Pelosi was better than that of Batya Ungar-Sargon:

For Pelosi, the open border isnt a problem to be addressed so much as a solution to another problem: the labor shortage. Thanks to a slew of mass resignations, the labor market is currently extremely tight; many employers are struggling to fill their rosters. This has translated into the first wage gains for workers since the 1970s, though inflation is eating away at a lot of those gains.

The national minimum wage remains a laughable $7.25 an hour, but few Americans are still making that little. Almost 80% of American workers now earn at least $15 an hour, thanks to the pandemic labor market. Thats still not a living wage in any major metro area, but the tight labor market has had a huge impact on low-wage and blue-collar laborers.

You know how you undo those gains? Import an entirely new working class from a failed socialist state made up of people who are willing to work for much less money than an American worker. Undercut working-class Americans by opening the border and signaling to the working class of other countries that there is work for them here.

Watch Pelosis comments and Ungar-Sargons monologue here.