Several wide figures called connected conservatives and President-elect Donald Trump supporters to springiness acknowledgment to amerciable immigrants connected Thanksgiving, suggesting they admit a ample information of migrants were the ones who harvested and packed their entrées enjoyed connected Thursday.
"Everyone astatine the meal array today, particularly MAGA, delight springiness acknowledgment to the undocumented immigrants that picked and packed the nutrient you’re enjoying," said erstwhile Obama Housing & Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro.
"They merit our grace. Happy Thanksgiving," the erstwhile San Antonio mayor added.
Castro’s station was lambasted by respondents, who rhetorically asked which crops were being picked by the migrants flooding New York City and Chicago, portion others suggested the characterizations were "racist" assumptions astir farmworkers.
Others replied by saying this Thanksgiving they are "thankful for Tom Homan" – Trump’s incoming borderline czar.
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Former San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro. (Getty)
Meanwhile, connected MSNBC, Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., was asked astir migrant farmworkers who whitethorn not person ineligible presumption successful the U.S.
Host Jonathan Capehart reported Thanksgiving costs were down 5% implicit 2023 and that astir fractional of farmworkers are noncitizens.
"There's nary denotation that Donald Trump would exempt cultivation workers from his calls for wide deportation erstwhile helium takes office," Capehart told Garcia.
"Donald Trump ran a full run centered astir denigrating and sometimes outright lying astir immigrants… Immigrant labour is simply a cardinal portion of the American economy, and that includes immigrants who prime truthful overmuch of the nutrient that each of america volition devour time and connected Thanksgiving."
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Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., speaks alongside different Democrats. (Getty)
Garcia said helium "completely agrees" with the pundit, adding that squad Trump’s rhetoric has been "frankly un-American and shameful and would harm the economy."
Garcia added that galore nutrient work workers besides deficiency ineligible presumption and that it would beryllium incorrect to disregard their contributions this Thanksgiving.
"So the thought that we're going to person mass-deport each of these workers that we beryllium connected that our families beryllium connected is perfectly crazy. It's inhumane, it is un-American," helium said, adding wide deportations of those workers would severely wounded the economy.
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"I deliberation it's truly rather shameful what's really happening close now. I anticipation Americans propulsion backmost connected it, and particularly this Thanksgiving, are reasoning astir each these radical that are conscionable asking to beryllium present conscionable truthful they tin enactment and supply for their families and rather frankly, supply for the country."
Actor and occasional Trump critic John Fugelsang posted connected X that erstwhile the Wampanoag Native Americans fed the pilgrims who landed successful present-day Massachusetts, "they had nary thought they'd conscionable invented a societal information nett for undocumented immigrants."
In that vein, a meme circulated connected X depicting a pilgrim accepting a roasted turkey from a Native American with the caption, "Thanksgiving: Celebrating the time Americans fed undocumented immigrants from Europe."
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