GOP Lawmaker Calls Some Immigrants A ‘Drain On Our Society,’ Echoing 1 Racist Trump Claim | EUROtoday

Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) on Monday mentioned not all immigrants are “equally compatible” with American tradition, slammed Haitians and Somalians as “a net drain” on the U.S. economic system and echoed one of the vital notorious claims from President Donald Trump.

Gill appeared on “The Benny Show” after host Benny Johnson cited a graph revealed in March from the Center for Immigration Studies displaying what number of non-citizen households within the U.S. obtain welfare help.

The staunch MAGA influencer mentioned it must be “illegal” for immigrants to “parasitically make our country poorer” and requested why they’re “entitled” to welfare in the event that they “haven’t mowed a lawn in this country.” Gill responded, including to Johnson’s rhetoric.

“If you come into the United States, you are expected to become American; you are not expected to be a hyphenated American perpetually,” he mentioned. “You’re expected to adopt American culture and revere our history and adhere to the cultural norms in our civilization.”

Gill continued, “Which, by the way, is the whole reason why people immigrate into the United States, because our culture, I believe in many ways, is superior to other cultures across the globe. We’ve got to recognize that not all cultures are equal.”

Johnson cited a social media publish earlier within the present that claimed in its caption {that a} Nigerian immigrant ― whom Johnson known as a “Haitian migrant” ― was lately photographed allegedly “cooking” a cat in a public park in Italy. Trump claimed throughout his 2024 marketing campaign that Haitian immigrants had been “eating the pets” of residents in Springfield, Ohio.

There’s no proof the latter occurred, and whereas even the GOP governor of Ohio and a Fox News host debunked Trump’s declare on the time, Gill mentioned about immigrants, “They’re not all equally compatible with America’s governing framework. They’re not all equally moral.”

He added, “They’re not— they don’t all have equal dignity. And we ought to recognize that bringing in third-world countries where some lunatic is grilling a cat in an American park, where children are playing around with is a culture that is incompatible with our own.”

Johnson went on to quote an X publish from the platform’s synthetic intelligence chatbot, Grok, alleging that the common IQ in Haiti is about 68 and round 70 in Somalia to decry the “incompatibility” with America’s common IQ of 105, which some knowledge recommend is decrease.

“Well, that’s the problem,” mentioned Gill.

Gill went on to hyperlink the IQ of immigrants to their want for welfare, claiming {that a} inhabitants that hasn’t interacted with “the modern American world” can “have a very hard time staying afloat.”

He added, “And the result is that they become a net drain, economically, on the rest of the society.”

While the Texas Republican went on to assert that “these are basic facts that we’ve got to recognize,” swaths of social media customers known as his rhetoric “disgusting,” likening it to “unvarnished gutter racism” and “Nazi propaganda.”

One X consumer wrote, “A ‘net drain on the society’ is something Hitler would say.”