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WATERS: They should treat them like they’re treating the Afghans. We’re bringing the Afghans by the thousands into the country, and they deserve to be brought in because they assisted us in the war and that’s how they should be treating the Haitians: Bringing in those who are eligible. Vaccinating and making sure that we are not simply trying to drive them back with, uh, our border on horses. That Haitians have been the victims of, uhh,m you know, not only our country, but Canada and France for years historically. Yes, I think they’re treated differently because they’re black, because they are Haitians and because, traditionally, uh, they have not been treated as human beings.
BUCK: Welcome back to Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show. There was Maxine Waters. I thought you should hear this, a member of Congress with… It’s hard to fit so much wrong into one sound bite, but she did a pretty impressive job there. First of all, the comparison between Afghans and Haitians here in term of Afghans who assisted in the war? Right.
They were promised something by the U.S. government in return for a certain service. The Haitians have not been, did not, and have not been. So that’s a big difference that’s obvious to anybody. Anyway. But she does make it clear they wants them all to come in and then, Clay. The other part of this which was very clear as a distraction tactic, but also as a way of virtue signaling and a kind of pseudo-moral elevation for the left here.
Because they’ve kicked open the borders. This is the fault of the Biden administration. We all know it. But when they turn this into a racial narrative whether it’s the Border Patrol whipping people, which did not happen. That is a fact. They lied. They lied for days about it. But then additionally, to say that the Haitians are being treated poorly here? More than half them have been let into the country. What is she even talking about, right? But it’s racism. When in doubt and you’re in a political fight and you’re Democrat, just scream about racism.
CLAY: Well, that’s the default position of the Democratic Party now. If you had to sum up the Democrat Party in three words, it would be “Everything Is Racist.” So Maxine Waters last week said that the “whipping,” which didn’t happen, was worse than slavery. So she attempted to analogize the situation at our border to slavery, which is an insult to slavery.
But also, the inability to distinguish in her mind the difference between refugees from Afghanistan who spent years assisting the United States and would otherwise be murdered for their assistance, potentially, of the United States and are the primary targets of the Taliban. I’m sure you saw, Buck. They’re now hanging people and leaving their corpses in the center of town square.
BUCK: From cranes.
CLAY: The “kinder, gentler” Taliban is basically the exact same. They’re chopping hands off. They are applying Sharia law. And there’s no difference at all, right, to — in many ways — what the regime was when we went there 20 years ago. So comparing that with the situation of Haitian immigrants who are illegally attempting to enter our country is so wrong-headed and, frankly, idiotic —
BUCK: Yes.
CLAY: — that only someone like Maxine Waters could even make it.