A Democratic Home lawmaker, identified for his jaw-dropping remarks, repurposed a Holocaust-era poem on Wednesday to argue that the Trump administration is concentrating on “Latinos exterior of the Dwelling Depots.”
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), who as soon as frightened Guam might sink from overpopulation, subjected lawmakers to his weird variation of German theologian Martin Niemöller’s well-known “First They Got here For …” poem throughout a Home Judiciary Committee listening to – leaving some folks shocked.
“, first they got here for the Latinos exterior of the Dwelling Depots, making an attempt to get work in order that they might feed their households,” Johnson started. “And I didn’t say something about it as a result of I’m not a Latino on the Dwelling Depot.”
“Then they got here for the Hispanic-looking people sporting hats backward with tattoos and so they deported them to El Salvador,” the congressman continued. “And I didn’t say something about that as a result of I don’t put on my hair [sic] backward and I don’t have any tattoos and I don’t appear to be a Latino.”
Johnson then urged the Trump administration “got here for the Latinas at house, caring for the youngsters … and I didn’t say something about it as a result of I’m not a Latina.”
The unique model of the poem Johnson appropriated notes how the Nazi regime got here for “socialists” and “commerce unionists” earlier than going after “Jews.”
The Georgia Democrat’s variation went on to allude to the Trump administration’s makes an attempt to deport people on pupil visas over their alleged sympathies to Hamas and the current arrest of a Wisconsin choose accused of serving to an unlawful migrant evade Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers.
“However then they got here for me, and I seemed round and there was no one left as a result of I had remained silent, and so they had taken everyone,” Johnson concluded.
The congressman argued that the poem he “paraphrased” resonated “again then because it does at present,” earlier than describing President Trump as a “lawless tyrant.”
The Home Judiciary GOP X account shared a clip of Johnson’s rant, captioned: “WOW. @RepHankJohnson simply implied that every one latinos hang around at Dwelling Depot.”
Within the clip, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) shortly leaves his seat and will get out of the digital camera shot when Johnson drops his “Latinos at Dwelling Depots” line.
“Yeah, this was mentioned after WWII,” one X person mentioned of Johnson’s try at poetry. “It does NOT apply to folks in your nation illegally.”
Charles Cornell III, a speechwriter for Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), sarcastically tweeted: “Unbelievable content material from a grasp of the craft.”
A number of X posts referenced Johnson’s earlier outrageous remarks.
“I’ve an concept,” one X person wrote. “Lets ship all of the illegals to the east coast of Guam, I feel that may cease it from tipping over.”
In the meantime, Virginia Kruta argued that Johnson “misplaced credibility when Guam didn’t capsize.”
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