Friday 30 September 2022 06:44 PM Pelosi: Florida farmers angry at DeSantis for migrant flights because they're ... trends now

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Nancy Pelosi questioned why Governor Ron DeSantis is flying migrants to Democratic jurisdictions, claiming the farmers in Florida need immigrants to 'pick the crops down there.'

The confusing parallel was made during the House Speaker's press conference on Friday a few weeks after DeSantis pulled a stunt sending a flight of 50 migrants to the wealthy Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard.

'We have a shortage of workers in our country,' Pelosi said as an argument for the country needing immigration reform.

'You see even in Florida, some of the farmers and the growers saying 'why are you shipping these immigrants up North? We need them to pick the crops down here,'' she claimed. 

'But that doesn't mean that we don't recognize our moral responsibility as well,' the California Democrat added.