Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-evious) is extremely proud of herself for fooling enough gullible Republicans into voting to pass her legislation to grant hundreds of thousands of Haitian aliens temporary protected status (TPS), or de facto asylum. She claims America’s healthcare system relies on Haitian migrants. She is also completely full of garbage.
Just like the lie that "Americans will never do the jobs that illegal aliens do," most healthcare workers in the U.S. are not, in fact, foreign immigrants. But since when has the truth ever inhibited Democrats? Pressley, in bragging about the Haitian TPS resolution's passage, made up a preposterous statistic.
She was explaining how she convinced some Republicans to vote with her. "One in five healthcare workers are Haitian. That was a point that resonated with a lot of people, because if you don’t extend TPS, people’s work authorizations are null and void,” Pressley asserted.
Pressley managed to cram multiple lies into this claim. Firstly, work authorizations are not inherently connected to or dependent on TPS. Secondly, one in five healthcare workers are most certainly not Haitian. Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin quickly fact-checked with the real statistic:
That is not even remotely close to being true or accurate. Haitians are not 20% of the US heath care workforce.
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) April 17, 2026
According to the pro-immigration American Immigration Council, Haitians make up 0.6% of the healthcare workforce in the U.S.
Source: https://t.co/gEQyuIv6fj https://t.co/BLXyYBD9tW
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So actually, fewer than one percent of U.S. healthcare workers are Haitian. This TPS resolution could benefit God knows how many criminals and illegal aliens, but it won't prevent mass numbers of American patients from dying.
But like the devil their master, Democrats always have a kernel of truth buried under the heap of untruths. Visa Verge last year claimed that almost 20% of U.S. healthcare workers are immigrants, which would include legal residents. Notably, however, some states — especially New York — specifically advertise for immigrants and offer special immigration benefits to physicians, so even there we see hospitals deliberately seeking foreign labor and depriving Americans of job opportunities. As an interesting anecdote, jihadi Iranian Parliament member and former minister Ali Nobakht's son Ehsan Nobakht is a doctor and medical professor at George Washington University. Not exactly the sort of doctor I would want.
In light of these facts, therefore, we must not forget the names of the Republicans who so gullibly fell for Pressley's balderdash about the U.S. healthcare system relying on Haitian migrants: Rep. Don Bacon (R-Nebr.), Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Flor.), Rep. Maria Salazar (R-Fla.), Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.), Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.), Rep. Michael R. Turner (R-Ohio), Rep. Mike Carey (R-Ohio), Rep. Richard McCormick (R-Ga.), and Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.).
These representatives are acting as if they represent foreigners first and America Last.
