TAMPA, Fla. – James Judge, the Republican nominee for Florida’s 14th Congressional District, slammed both Democrats and Republicans for their handling of the migrant crisis on Thursday after the Florida governor’s office reportedly took credit for flying two planes full of Venezuelan immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.
“Using human beings who are fleeing socialism, including women and children, for political gain, is absolutely disgusting and the furthest thing from being Christ-like that I can imagine,” said Judge in a news release issued on Thursday. “For someone who talks about putting on the full armor of God, I think our governor got this one tremendously wrong.”
According to Judge, he believes most lawmakers in both parties don’t care to actually fix our immigration issues at all and would rather grandstand to score political points and headlines in order to raise more money.
“Democrats like Kathy Castor demonize law enforcement officers for actually doing their jobs and enforcing the law, while actively sponsoring legislation to make their jobs more difficult and strip much-needed funding,” Judge said. “Castor, Pelosi and Biden’s policies are inhumanely ushering in illegal immigrants, which inadvertently supports organized crime, drug cartels and terrorism while creating a serf-like class of workers.”
“At the same time, establishment Republicans have embraced a terrible approach by vilifying all immigrants as criminals, including those who are genuinely fleeing oppression, and that’s just wrong,” Judge said.
Neither party has fixed immigration while they have controlled government, yet for decades they have taken billions of dollars in contributions promising to do just that, Judge pointed out.
Furthermore, Judge says that politicizing human beings who are in need of help is not only un-Christian, it’s un-American.
According to the 2020 Census, 70 percent of Americans said they identified as Christian.
“Why does this matter? Because, as Christians, we’re called to love our neighbors. And, whether you’re a Christian or not, I think it’s evident that both political parties are significantly failing our citizens and our neighbors. They have become divisive to the point of hatred, and we are at a really ugly place in American history. I believe our society needs to recheck the moral compass and try to do unto others as we would have them do unto us,” Judge said. “At the end of the day, we are Americans, and we are so much better than where we currently are.”
About James Judge:
Judge, who publicly announced his run for Congress earlier this year, is the only Tampa Bay area native running in the race, having been born in Clearwater, Florida. Judge graduated from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg and served in the U.S. Coast Guard in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Additionally, he served in Kabul, Afghanistan as a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Defense from 2010 until 2011. He now owns Judge Public Relations, a Tampa-based PR firm and marketing agency with clients worldwide.
Judge is married to his wife Danielle, who is also a small business owner in Hillsborough County. The Judges are avid animal lovers and together, they have four dogs, three cats, two horses and 10 chickens. Judge is a proud member of the NRA, Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion. The Judges are also active members at Idlewild Baptist Church in Tampa.
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