I usually argue that the slogan “Democrats are the real racists” used by some conservatives is hollow because the Democratic Party has historically supported slavery and racial segregation. I feel that I am intellectually lazy. However, it is relevant to a recent topic that has become increasingly prevalent among liberal elites seeking to defend the practice of illegal immigration.
In the past week, several prominent media commentators and Democratic politicians have launched economic lawsuits against the deportation of illegal immigrants, arguing that if millions of illegal immigrants were deported, large numbers of He argued that jobs would not be filled and the consequences would be catastrophic. For the national economy. Implicit in these arguments is the fundamentally racist assumption that undocumented Hispanic immigrants can help fill low-wage jobs that most people are unwilling to do. In other words, they see illegal immigrants as cheap, low-class labor.
The most blatantly racist and disturbing comment came from Washington Post columnist Katherine Rampel. He recently appeared on a CNN panel to debate illegal immigration with Republican commentator Scott Jennings, asserting that illegal immigrants do all the hard work in the economy. .
“[Former President Donald Trump] We’re going to crack down on immigration for the benefit of American workers,” Jennings said.
“Is he going to deport 20 million people?” Rampel replied. “The people who harvest your crops? The people who process your meat? The people who take care of grandma? The people who play all kinds of important roles in this country?”
I can’t think of a situation where it would be good to bring up “harvest” to defend labor practices against a particular racial group (in this case, Hispanics). But Lampel wasn’t alone.
Mark Cuban, a billionaire and prominent ally of Vice President Kamala Harris, shared a video with X of a Latino farmer asking President Trump who would do the difficult work if illegal immigrants were deported. did.
“The men who pick strawberries and cut broccoli say undocumented workers are doing the hard work,” Cuban wrote. “He asked President Trump, if we deport them, who will do the hard work and what will happen to the price of food?”
A man picking strawberries and cutting broccoli said undocumented workers were doing the hard work. He asked President Trump who would do the hard work and how much food would cost if they were deported. https://t.co/Ql5Ys2dWJu
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) October 17, 2024
And last week, Republican Vice Presidential candidate J.D. Vance gave a lengthy podcast interview with Lulu Garcia-Navarro of The New York Times, in which Garcia-Navarro discussed plans to build more housing to address the national housing shortage. suggested that it was impossible. This is achievable if the new Trump administration deports millions of illegal immigrants, many of whom work in the construction industry.
“About a third of the construction workers in this country are Hispanic, and a large portion of them are undocumented. So we’re going to eliminate all the people who work in construction, and we’re going to get the housing that this country needs. How do you propose to build all of them?” Garcia-Navarro asked Vance.
The political establishment will never admit that its reliance on illegal immigrants is to maintain a caste system that benefits corporations rather than workers. @JDVance It exposes it beautifully. pic.twitter.com/4QXIe0onsS
— Jeremiah Poff (@JJ_Poff) October 12, 2024
Vance said Garcia-Navarro and others like her, including Cuban and Lampel, are advocating for a system that would allow businesses and businesses to use illegal immigrant labor to drive down market wages. He politely pointed out. Legal construction workers demand much higher salaries and benefits than illegal immigrants who work for slush funds.
Click here to read more from the Washington Examiner
Whether liberal elites defending illegal immigrant labor admit it or not, they advocate a racial caste system that emphasizes low costs at the expense of companies’ moral obligation to pay workers a fair wage. I am doing it. Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for benefits such as Social Security or food stamps and rely solely on wages to put food on the table. This leaves undocumented workers exempt from federal labor and minimum wage laws, making them highly vulnerable to wage exploitation by companies seeking to reduce labor costs.
The same liberal establishment that condemns President Trump’s “inhumane” comments about immigrants view illegal immigrants purely as a servant class willing to do hard manual labor that no one else wants to do. is very suggestive. This is a fundamentally racist belief that benefits corporations at the expense of American workers, and has no place in a civilized society. In this case, the Democrats are the real racists.
