Incendiary Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett suggested the United States needs immigrants for farm jobs because black people “are done picking cotton” while speaking at a historically black church over the weekend.
The far left congresswoman’s eyebrow-raising remark on Sunday came as she was making the case for the country’s migrant population she believes was unfairly attacked during President Trump’s White House run, in which he vowed to crack down on illegal immigration.
“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,” she said on video captured by Brass City Community Television. “The fact is ain’t none of y’all trying to go and farm right now.”
The comments yielded tepid laughs from congregants during the Grace Baptist Church’s 125th anniversary event in Waterbury, Connecticut, while the Democrat further pleaded her case.
“OK, I’m lying?” Crockett, 44, said. “You’re not, you’re not. We done picking cotton. We are. You can’t pay us enough to find a plantation.”
Before Crockett’s uncomfortable comment, she argued immigrants were being wrongly vilified for bringing crime to communities and stealing “black jobs.”
“Again they were able to divide us because any black person that knows their history should know at some point in time in history they looked at us and they acted as if we were less than, they acted as if we were some kind of aliens, they acted as if we had a higher proclivity to commit crimes, they acted as if we were incapable of learning,” she said.
“That’s what they did to us, so who are we to sit and say that we’re gonna do that to somebody else.”
Crockett has gained attention for a series of controversial statements in recent months.
She suggested last month that the US might not have elections in 2028, and has called Trump a “dictator” and “enemy” to the US.
She also made fun of wheelchair-bound Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, calling him “Governor Hot Wheels,” though she claims her criticism had nothing to do with his disability and was tied to him shipping migrants at the border to other parts of the country via planes, trains and buses.
