VIDEO: Congressman Greg Casar Confronts Project 2025 Advisory Board Member About Pro-Slavery Comments

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Greg Casar (D-Texas) confronted Mark Krikorian, an advisory board member for Project 2025 and the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, who previously wrote, “Haiti's so screwed up because it wasn't colonized long enough.” 

Regarding Krikorian’s previous quote, Casar asked him if Haitians would have been better if they stayed colonized. Krikorian then said it would have been better “in the long run” if Haitians had been enslaved and colonized for 30 more years.

“Before today, I couldn't understand why Trump's Project 2025 could advocate for ending civil rights protections… but now I understand,” said Congressman Greg Casar (D-Texas) during the hearing. “We have Project 2025 board members here who are the directors of groups that the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated as a hate group. We have people on the board that developed this, who have said, for example, that Haitians would have been better off with more influence from their enslavers.” 

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Congressman Greg Casar represents Texas’s 35th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, which runs down I-35 from East Austin to Hays County to the West Side of San Antonio.  A labor organizer and son of Mexican immigrants, Casar serves as the Whip of the Congressional Progressive Caucus for the 118th Congress. He also serves on the Committee on Oversight and Accountability and the Committee on Agriculture.