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Modern Democrats have latched onto an argument in favor of illegal immigration — and it’s the same one pro-slavery Democrats used in the 1800s.
“So, I had to go around the country and educate people about what immigrants do for this country, or the fact we are a country of immigrants. The fact is ain’t none of y’all trying to go and farm right now,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) said at a speech commemorating Grace Baptist Church’s 125th anniversary in Waterbury, Conn.
“You’re not, you’re not. We done picking cotton. We are. You can’t pay us enough to find a plantation.”
A cheap, illegal workforce is necessary, the Democrats argue, and the peoples of Mexico, Honduras, Haiti and other nations should be forced to fill it.
Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York agrees, stating in a hearing last year, “Forget the fact that our vegetables would rot in the ground if it weren’t being picked by many immigrants, many illegal immigrants.”
In January 2025, Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) pressed the then-agriculture secretary nominee, Brooke Rollins, during her nomination hearing about the impact of losing illegal labor.
“It’s estimated that half of California’s farmer workforce is undocumented. How are farmers in California supposed to survive if there are truly mass deportations in which half of the workforce is sent out of the country?”
“Americans don’t want to do that work. It’s frankly too backbreaking. So, who’s going to work the farms?”
Do Democrats — the party of woke and cancel culture — realize how racist they’re being?
Rekindled romance
The modern Democratic Party has rekindled its romance with pro-slavery logic to uphold an oppressive system that turns a blind eye to human suffering and economic strangulation for the American working class.
What Democrats refuse to acknowledge is that their open-border approach has allowed for sociopathic Mexican cartels to make billions of dollars in human trafficking, including sex slavery for kidnapped women and children, and extortion off anyone attempting to make it through our southern border.
In a 2021 NBC News report, David Sanabria, a Honduran national, and his daughter Ximena paid Mexican coyotes to enter the United States, only to end up being kidnapped by cartel members and held for ransom.
The cartel contacted David’s brother and threatened him to pay thousands of dollars or else they would kill his both David and Ximena.
David even details how he witnessed people being murdered when their loved ones didn’t pay and was even forced to eat their body parts to hide evidence of their murders.
History repeats itself
The surge in border crossings during the Biden administration led to an increase in cartel- and gang-run brothels in New York City, prompting the NYPD to eventually lock down locations like Roosevelt Avenue in Queens.
When I was in grade school, my teachers taught me about the African slaves dying on ships attempting to come to the Americas.
But today, history repeats itself as our modern-day slaves die in abandoned tractor-trailers from heat stroke as they’re being smuggled into America like expendable cargo.
What Democrats won’t emphasize is that cheap labor comes attached to human suffering and our lust for chasing an inexpensive workforce perverts our ambition to be consistent with fighting for human rights in our own backyard.
James D.B. De Bow, editor of the influential Southern economic journal De Bow’s Review, wrote in an 1850 article, “Take away the labor of the slave, and the great staples of the South — cotton, rice, sugar, and tobacco — cease to be produced in quantities sufficient to supply the world . . . The ruin of the South is the ruin of the North.”
What would he think that 170 years later, a black congresswoman was echoing his argument.
“Who will pick the cotton?” — is there any shame, Jasmine Crockett, that your argument is the same as the Confederacy?
Adam B. Coleman is the author of the new book, “The Children We Left Behind: How Western Culture Rationalizes Family Separation & Ignores the Pain of Child Neglect.”