Vermont Democrat Congresswoman Becca Balint, the state’s first female and openly gay member of Congress, slammed the Trump administration’s actions toward immigrants while declaring that if immigration is decreased, “We’re not gonna have anybody around to wipe our a**es.”

Speaking at a town hall in Newport, Vermont, Balint launched into a diatribe in which she posited that there weren’t enough people in America “to fill the jobs we have right now.”

“We all know our AG system in Vermont would collapse without migrant labor; that’s just a reality. That’s the reality,” she began. “We know our economy is completely bound up in immigration and migrant labor, and of course, we have to come to a place in Congress where it is no longer a political issue but we see it as an existential issue for the country. If we don’t have avenues for people to come here legally to work or to build a home here — I’m gonna be really crude right now, we’re not gonna have anybody around to wipe our a**es, because we don’t have enough people in our country now to fill the jobs that we have right now.”

“But we have to make sure those folks are getting a decent wage and making sure that their rights are protected,” she continued, then offering a bone to those who want secure borders, saying, “And we also have to make sure that we have an adult conversation in Congress about the give and take and how this works, because it is not a xenophobic or racist thing for people to say they want to know our borders are secure. That alone is not.”

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Then she segued to attacking the Trump administration: “What falls apart is how policies are enacted, and right now, we have a fair amount of lawlessness that is happening among ICE and Homeland Security that was not anything, I think, that most voters wanted. What they wanted was to know there was a secure border, that there would be pathways to citizenship, and rules would be the same for everybody. The problem is right now people are following the rules, and every step of the way and they are still being carted off and kidnapped and not being allowed to have access to their attorneys.”

Balint told Fox News of President Trump: “He has made immigrants, regardless of status, feel unsafe and targeted all around the country. As Vermonters, we’re so proud that we are seen as a safe place to land. I’m unwavering in my position that immigrants and refugees are welcome in Vermont and that every worker in every job deserves dignity and fair wages — from doctors and scientists to carpenters and farmworkers. … I’ve relentlessly condemned the Trump administration’s cruel practices targeting and separating immigrant families, and I will continue to stand up for the rights of every person in this country.”

A leading pro-LGBT group this week published a report on “anti-LGBTQ incidents” in the United States. It’s incredibly shocking — but not in the way you’d think.

GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) reported more than 932 hate incidents across the country over the year that ended May 1. The group also claims that “anti-trans hate hit a record high” and that “52% of all incidents were targeting transgender and gender nonconforming people.”

Here’s the kicker: the biggest category of incidents GLAAD recorded was “protests.” Yeah, you read that right.

It’s not clear which specific protests GLAAD is referring to.

Perhaps it’s parents fighting for their children. Just last month, Colorado parents showed up at the state capital to rally against a radical bill that declared that parents in custody battles who misgender or “deadname” their child were guilty of “coercive control” and could lose their child.

Or maybe it’s female athletes walking off the field and refusing to compete against trans-identifying male competitors.

Perhaps it’s one of the countless other events organized by the countless concerned Americans who have shown up at school board meetings, state legislatures, and even the Supreme Court to speak out against LGBT agendas.

Meanwhile, of course, there’s a long list of actually violent acts the Left does not consider hate. How about the disturbed trans-identifying woman who shot up The Covenant School in Nashville in 2023, killing six people, including three nine-year-olds? Or the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 that destroyed over $1 billion of property? Or maybe the firebombing of pro-life pregnancy centers around the time Roe v. Wade was overturned?

Still waiting on the report that includes those!

Another eye-catching category in GLAAD’s report was “propaganda drops,” with more than 60 incidents, although it is not exactly clear what a “propaganda drop” is. Perhaps college students handing out Christian pamphlets to an LGBT studies class?

GLAAD claimed trans-identifying and “gender nonconforming” people were the target of over half of all the anti-LGBTQ incidents, but this includes 209 “protests” and 33 “propaganda drops.”

“Compared to last year’s data, this represents a 14% increase in incidents targeting transgender and gender nonconforming people,” GLAAD said.

The other categories included about 280 harassment incidents, 140 vandalism incidents, 85 assaults, 20 bomb threats, and 15 arson attempts.

So bomb threats, arson, and violent assaults are in the same “hate” category as legal, peaceful protests exercising First Amendment rights. Got it!

Sarah Moore, who runs GLAAD’s tracker, said the tracker includes “every expression of hate” regardless of whether it is a crime because “LGBTQ people are going to experience these things as acts of hate, regardless of if they’re prosecuted as that.”

GLAAD pointed the finger at the Trump administration, saying its executive orders “specifically demean and discriminate” against trans-identifying people.

Shortly after taking office, President Donald Trump issued multiple executive orders that banned federal funds for schools that allow males in girls’ sports and bathrooms, as well as for hospitals that perform transgender surgeries on children.

One order also defined sex as male and female — remember when this was common sense? Now it’s “hateful.”

“Hope shines brightest in the darkest moments,” said GLAAD’s president and CEO, Sarah Kate Ellis, in a letter published with the report. “As we honor the queer and trans leaders of decades past and present, and resolve to overcome the challenges of today, we create a new legacy of joy as resistance.”

By the way, this is not even the first year GLAAD has counted protests and rallies as “hate” incidents.

GLAAD launched its “ALERT Desk” database to track anti-LGBTQ extremism back in June 2022. Of the 2,626 incidents GLAAD says have occurred in the three years since the database was launched, 872 of them are protests or rallies.

Can’t wait to see next year’s report, which will probably include every time someone looked sideways at a drag queen!