Yesterday, my friend and I were talking about her experience at the post office where she had been dropping off a package for her business. As they were chit-chatting, the conversation turned to illegal immigration and Donald Trump's ongoing deportations. The lady at the counter asked, with no shame or self-awareness, who was going to do America's slave labor.
My friend said it appeared she wasn't joking. It was a real question she was asking, and she was pretty shocked by it... but I wasn't.
That's been the ongoing question on the left since Trump started his quest to rid America of illegal aliens. We can probably even take it back further than that, and say that's the question the left's been asking every time we've revisited this issue. The lady at the post-office was just saying it in a far more blunt way than the left typically likes to express.
As my colleague Jennifer O' Connell noted in her latest piece, Ana Nevarro sat on a CNN panel and effectively said the same thing as the lady at the post-office, but in far more agreeable ways:
Look, what's going to happen here, is, we're going to find that milk gets a lot higher. Because I don't know if any of you have ever been to a dairy farm, it is god-awful work. We're going to see that groceries and vegetables are higher, we're going to see an effect on our economy, because whether people like it or not, whether Americans acknowledge it or not, undocumented immigrants are an integral part of our society and our economy.
Read: It's 1862 All Over Again: Ana Navarro Waxes Ineloquent About Illegal Labor and the Price of Milk
To put it another way, here's Democrat strategist Jen Arnold infamous "I can't wait till American women can't get blueberries for their smoothies" moment:
"B-b-but who will pick the blueberries for my smoothie?"
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) January 29, 2025
Democrats continue the time-tested tradition of demanding minorities perform laborious tasks for their own comfort, but like Scott Jennings says, it's a new day in America. pic.twitter.com/b7t682vVuK
And here's Virginia Democrat Rebecca Balint saying that without illegal immigrants "we’re not gonna have anyone around to wipe our a**es":
@BeccaBalintVT tells constituents at a town hall in Newport:
— Vermont Daily Chronicle (@VTDC802) May 31, 2025
“if we don’t have avenues for people to come here legally to work or to build a home here… we’re not gonna have anyone around to wipe our a**es because we don’t have enough people” pic.twitter.com/f0PeoWtEj6
As O'Connell pointed out, these arguments are "eerily similar to the argument the Southern states were making in the early 1860s about cotton and slave labor," and that the sudden disappearance of slavery would have such damaging effects on our economy to the point where we'd suffer as citizens as no one is willing to do they work they were doing.
Au contraire...
So…immigration enforcement leads to a rush of applicants for those jobs from…American citizens! pic.twitter.com/9WMq6TzqQQ
— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) June 16, 2025
But, the fact that they're demonstrably wrong aside, there's something old-school sinister lurking beneath all these economic arguments, and it's that slavery is good and warranted in order to keep one's personal comforts kept up. O'Connell is right. There is no difference between the pro-illegal immigration argument and the pro-slavery argument.
Democrats can try to make themselves feel better by making the excuse that they're still receiving some pay and are getting a better life, but the pay is — by their own admission — so minimal and the work is backbreaking, with little to no chance to grow beyond their current predicament.
Last I checked, forced arrested development was antithetical to the American dream, which is one of the reasons we ditched slavery as a practice. It's kind of hard to say you believe that "all men are created equal under God" when you're pointing to a specific group and demanding they get into the fields and work for peanuts so Karen McVoteblue can get those berries for her smoothie.
And it is a specific group, in this instance, and it's my understanding that targeting someone in negative ways for their race is, in fact, racism.
"But Brandon, Navarro is Hispanic, so it can't be racism!"
Who do you think sold black people into slavery?
A racist act is a racist act, even if the race of that person is the same as the victim. Selling your own kind into slavery doesn't get you off the hook.
The Democrats seem to think they're not capable of racism because they're so "diverse," but this is stupid. The Republican Party is just as diverse, if not more so thanks to its acceptance of a diversity of ideas.
At this time, the Democrats are trying to prohibit the deportation of a specific racial group because they work for next to nothing and make their elitist lifestyle cost less.
That's racist.
