While millions of Americans gathered with family to give thanks, the far-left “Squad” once again chose grievance over gratitude. This time, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) used Thanksgiving not to honor the country she serves, but to launch yet another angry tirade against the Trump Administration’s efforts to finally enforce America’s immigration laws.
Pressley, who has long opposed virtually every form of border security, posted a melodramatic message accusing ICE agents of “abducting” people. In reality, those individuals were deported — because they were in the United States illegally. But Pressley, like the rest of the Squad, prefers the language of victimhood to the rule of law.
“This Thanksgiving,” she wrote, “I’m thinking of our neighbors with an empty seat at the dinner table. Those with loved ones abducted & deported from their families. Those we lost due to gun violence, mass incarceration, & more. A more just America is possible, if we fight for it.”
Her attempt to paint lawful deportations as kidnappings did not go over well.
Conservatives hammered her hypocrisy, reminding her that *far more* American families now face empty seats because of violent crime committed by illegal aliens — crimes her open-borders policies helped enable. One commenter wrote: “This Thanksgiving I am remembering all the empty seats at the table due to their murders by illegal invaders.” Another noted, “They should have thought about that before they committed crimes!”
Others pointed out that Pressley seems far more sympathetic to foreign nationals violating U.S. law than to the American citizens she is supposed to represent. “I’m thinking about the traitors like you,” one user wrote, “who have never been thankful for a single thing in this country.”
Another user contrasted Pressley’s performative outrage with actual tragedies unfolding across the country: “I’m thinking of Iryna Zarutska, murdered by a career criminal Democrats set loose. And Laken Riley, murdered by a violent illegal alien. A safer America is possible — and we’re gonna fight for it.”
Still others highlighted her silence on the two National Guard soldiers shot in Washington, D.C., just days earlier by an Afghan migrant released into the country under the Biden Administration. “You are partly responsible for the hate and rhetoric you spread,” one commenter said.
Pressley’s Thanksgiving tantrum was not her only holiday-weekend meltdown. She also blamed Trump for inflation — despite the economic revival under his leadership — and went after the administration for planning deportations of Haitian nationals, calling it a “death sentence.” She ignored the obvious: If Haiti is unsafe, it is because of the same lack of law and order she champions for the United States.
Not to be outdone, fellow Squad member Rashida Tlaib spent Thanksgiving lecturing Americans about Indigenous politics while ignoring her own refusal to condemn “Death to America” chants in her district.
While most Americans spent the holiday reflecting on gratitude, family, and national blessings, Democrats like Pressley used it to attack the very policies keeping American families safe. It was a perfect snapshot of the modern left: angry, divisive, and more concerned about illegal immigrants than American citizens.
