Run for the Border, Steve King's Coming!

[marmar]

from Mother Jones:



Rep. Steve King has compared border-crossers to livestock, asserted that President Obama "favors the black person," and described illegal immigration as a "slow-motion terrorist attack." Last summer, the Iowa Republican proclaimed that he would support amnesty for illegal immigrants under just one condition—that "every time we give amnesty for an illegal alien, we deport a liberal." Since Tom Tancredo left office in 2008, King has risen to take his place as the right's biggest anti-immigration flamethrower. Now he's preparing to wage an even bigger assault under Republican-controlled House. King is very likely to become the next chair of the House Judiciary's subcommittee on immigration, working together with Judiciary's incoming chairman, Lamar Smith—another immigration hawk who's vowed to put a crackdown at the top of his agenda.

King has already begun laying out his plan to get tough on immigrants in the next Congress, vowing to push legislation that would ban birthright citizenship. "We will have the votes in the House to put an end to the anchor babies in this country," King told conservative site Newsmax last week after the election, referring to the US-born children of illegal immigrants. He continued: "We need to put the marker down and push this thing forward. If we can't get it past the president, then at least we will have made the case for the president, and have set the stage." He's also pledged to push bills that punish employers for hiring illegal immigrants and outlaw so-called" sanctuary cities" that have refused to target illegal immigrants.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.)—the current subcommittee chair whom King will be replacing—calls his approach to the issue "over the top…he is very far out there." Lofgren adds that she isn't even sure if the House Republican leadership "will let him go that far," describing King's proposals as "very punitive, very anti-immigrant." But there's even more that King has in store. Echoing Rep. Darrell Issa's impending assault on the Obama administration—promising to hold over 200 hearings as chair of the House Oversight Committee—King plans to grill the Obama administration about its immigration enforcement policy, telling Politico that he wants to bring Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano before the committee, among others. ..............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/11/steve-king-immigration-committee

[butterfly77]

1. Why do they hate blacks so much..

didn't they bring blacks over..They just can't get over that the President is black even though the media and everyone tries to pretend as though that isn't what has stirred up the teabaggers.

[Angry Dragon]

3. It is about browns this time

Is he saying that michele malkin is going to be deported??
She is an anchor baby

[butterfly77]

4. Its about anyone who isn't

what they consider a REAL AMERICAN..

[pinboy3niner]

2. Hearings on immigration enforcement actually could be a GOOD thing

For example, it would highlight the fact that the number of border agents has doubled in the last 5 years, and--contrary to hysterical RW anti-immigrant spin--illegal border-crossing has dropped dramatically.

[butterfly77]

5. Steve King is...

Craaaaaaazzzzzzzzzzzy...