Governor Gavin Newsom gave an utterly tone-deaf response about illegal immigration in California, insisting that he wouldn't pick crops, so that means he has to allow what is tantamount to slavery in his state.
During Newsom's appearance on "The Shawn Ryan Show" podcast that aired Monday, the governor, in one breath, tried to claim the importance of border security and then blasted President Trump and his administration's efforts to rid our country of illegal immigrants who flooded in under former President Joe Biden.
🚨Gavin Newsom: Well I would never do any of those jobs that illegals do.
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“I don’t know many people that want a job out there in those packing facilities. I don’t see many people that look like me jumping at those jobs!” pic.twitter.com/MNsx3BvJEF
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The host pointed out that California is the number one state for illegal immigration, with Texas in second place.
Ryan said the border has been a "complete [..] disaster" and Newsom happily agreed.
The governor said, "Forty-one percent of our construction workers [are illegals]. Texas and California have the highest percentage of their construction workers, that would fill into that category. How the hell do we rebuild Altadena and Palisades?"
"We're going to need a peak next year. We estimate about 70,000 workers without that workforce. Ain't going to happen. You're struggling here," he added. "You imagine in peak there."
Newsom claimed that's why there needed to be a "pathway" for those illegal immigrants, as we secure the border and we own that issue."
However, when pressed by the host as to whether he felt illegals were "taking American jobs," Newsom said no, not in places like Tulare County in the Central Valley or Ventura County in So Cal.
"I don't know many people that want a job out there in those packing facilities," the governor answered. "I don't see many people look like me jumping at those jobs. I just don't. Maybe there's some exceptions. I haven't seen the evidence of that."
The comments came after ICE agents raided a weed farm where they not only arrested illegal immigrants but found children on site, presumably being used as child laborers, as RedState reported. Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) even tried to claim the illegals were working on a farm that grew "strawberries."
My colleague Bonchie brought the facts and proved what a tool both Gomez and Newsom were.
But as I said, the truth of the situation is far more disturbing than the picture Newsom and Gomez attempted to paint. As it turns out, this was not a "strawberry" farm (not that it being so would have mattered). It was a weed farm, and ICE was there to arrest the person running the operation for harboring illegal aliens. These weren't just any illegal aliens, though. When the federal agents arrived, they found trafficked illegal immigrant children on site, presumably being used as child laborers.
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The narrative liberals like Newsom have tried to push about Americans not taking those jobs illegals do has already been blown up, as RedState reported.
In Omaha, Nebraska, a recent raid at Green Valley Foods proved this is just another leftist lie when applications started pouring in from people wanting those jobs after dozens of illegals were arrested.
Every seat in the waiting area of Glenn Valley Foods was occupied with people filling out job applications early Thursday afternoon, two days after the meatpacking plant became the center of the largest worksite immigration raid in the state of Nebraska so far this year.
Dozens of prospective employees, many of them Spanish speakers, had been coming in and out of the plant all day. Some were hoping to land a new job; others were coming in for training.
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