Democrat Malinowski Admits ‘Illegals Needed to Mow Beautiful Lawns’ Was ‘Flippant’

Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) admitted Tuesday he was being “flippant” when he said recently that America needs illegal immigrants to mow “our beautiful lawns” and other laborious tasks Americans do not want to do.

Congressman Malinowski inflamed controversy last week when he suggested that America needs more illegal immigrants to do the laborious tasks that Americans will not do, such as mowing lawns.

“There are a lot of jobs in our community, that like it or not, for better or for worse, Americans are not willing to take,” Rep. Malinowski said during a town hall in Hillsborough, New Jersey, a wealthy New Jersey suburb.

The New Jersey Democrat said that illegal immigrants allegedly serve as health aides, perform yard work, and take care of seniors, which in his mind, Americans will not do.

Malinowski asked rhetorically, “Who do you think is taking care of our seniors?” He went on:

Who do you think is mowing our beautiful lawns in Somerset County? We don’t usually ask, but a lot of those workers are undocumented. There are just not a lot of kids who, sorry, from Montgomery High, who are going to be doing that full time. You guys are going into robotics, for goodness’ sake.

Now, in response to the controversy, Malinowski told InsiderNJ that he was being “flippant” in his comment that America needs illegal immigrants. The New Jersey Democrat said that the number one complaint he hears from farmers in his district is that they find it hard to workers.

Congressman Malinowski, a former State Department official, defeated Rep. Leonard Lance (R-NJ) in the 2018 midterm elections. New Jersey’s seventh congressional district serves as one potential district that could flip back to the Republicans in the 2020 congressional elections.