Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi stunned countless Americans this week when she suggest illegal immigrants should remain in the south to say they can “pick the crops.”

“Right now, the best thing that we can do for our economy is comprehensive immigration reform,” she said.

“We have a shortage of workers in our country, and you see even in Florida, some of the farmers and the growers saying, ‘Why are you shipping these immigrants up North? We need them to pick the crops down here,'” she said.

Watch Pelosi’s comments above.