‘What If They Actually Had To Serve Themselves?’: Newt Gingrich Says Democrats Exposed Their Elitism On Deportations

Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Thursday on Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime” that Democrats exposed their “remarkable” privilege in how they’ve responded to the deportation of illegal migrants.

While Democrats have questioned how U.S. crops, hotels, and construction industries would survive without illegal migrant workers, the party and media pundits appear to have ramped up their rhetoric in response to the Trump administration’s deportation crackdown. While discussing Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier’s proposal for a new detention center, Fox’s Jesse Watters asked Gingrich to respond to Democrats concerned about “busboys” and gardeners. (RELATED: ‘Word Games’: ‘The Five’ Guests Say Democrats Have Power To Do Something About Deportations Besides Whining)

“If you want a remarkable example of privilege, listen to what they’re saying to you. My God, what if they had to actually serve themselves? What if they had to actually mow their lawn? I mean, the brutality of the Trump regime,” Gingrich said. “My good friend Dave Winston just wrote a great piece and says ‘We’re losing the Democratic Party, and it’s becoming the anti-Trump party.’”

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President Donald Trump has vowed to conduct a mass deportation of illegal migrants living in the U.S., slamming the Biden-Harris administration for allowing millions to enter the country over the past four years.

Despite the border crisis ranking among voters’ top concerns in 2024, Democrats have pushed back on the administration’s deportation ramp-up. Some, like Democrat Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen, even took a taxpayer-funded trip to El Salvador to visit illegal migrant Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, while others questioned how the crops and hotel industries would survive.

“That whatever Trump does, they’re against it, no matter how successful it is. You look at the border under Biden, which was deliberately open, and the speed with which President Trump has gotten control of the border, and it’s miraculous. I think it’s equally comparable to what he just did in Iran,” Gingrich added. “These are great decisive breakthroughs, and, of course, it drives the left crazy.”

While questioning Trump’s Agriculture Department pick Brooke Rollins during her January confirmation hearing, Democrat California Sen. Adam Schiff asked who would work on his state’s farms if deportations ramped up, claiming “Americans don’t want to do that work” because it’s “too backbreaking.”

Additionally, Democrat Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett said in a March MSNBC interview that illegal migrants need to stay in the U.S. to do the work college-educated “kids” won’t do.

Since January, the Trump administration has deported over 130,000 illegal migrants, with preliminary estimates from the Center for Immigration Studies showing roughly one million have left the country.

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