in World News Rep. Jasmine Crockett: ‘We Done Picking Cotton,’ So We Apparently Need Illegals to Do It
So, what’s Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s excuse going to be for this one?
Because, make no mistake, this is one of those situations where she’ll need an outlandish excuse to get herself out of her own words. It’s just like when the Texas Democrat was forced to defend calling her state’s Republican wheelchair-bound governor, Greg Abbott, “Hot Wheels” late last month.
Crockett attempted to defend herself by saying, “I wasn’t thinking about the governor’s condition — I was thinking about the planes, trains, and automobiles he used to transfer migrants into communities led by black mayors, deliberately stoking tension and fear among the most vulnerable.
“Literally, the next line I said was that he was a ‘Hot A** Mess,’ referencing his terrible policies,” she added. “At no point did I mention or allude to his condition.”
One problem: She’d liked posts calling him “Hot Wheels” in 2021 — before Abbott had begun the illegal immigrant transfer programs — on social media, when it was clear they were about his wheelchair-bound state. Whoops. So much for that excuse.
Well, now Crockett has a chance to rectify that incompetence in CYA-ing now that she’s gone viral in a bad way — again, yet again — for telling an audience in Connecticut that “we done picking cotton” here in America, so we need illegals here to do it for us.
Speaking at Grace Baptist Church in Waterbury as part of their 125th anniversary program, Crockett told the audience how she “had to go around the country and educate people about what immigrants do for this country, or the fact that we are a country of immigrants.”
“The fact is, ain’t none of y’all trying to go and farm right now,” she continued to some laughter. “OK, so raise your hands.”
After looking around and apparently finding none: “You not! You not! We done picking cotton!”
“We are,” she continued, shrugging. “You can’t pay us enough to find a plantation.”
The reaction from the right was — well, what you might guess:
NEW: Rep. Jasmine Crockett suggests the United States needs illegal immigrants because “we done picking cotton.”
Crockett made the argument that the U.S. needs immigrants for farming while speaking at Grace Baptist Church in Connecticut.
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— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 7, 2025