Let's Put a Racist in Charge of Immigration

[babylonsister]

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2010/11/18/153940/94

Let's Put a Racist in Charge of Immigration

by BooMan
Thu Nov 18th, 2010 at 03:39:40 PM EST


I'm sure the American people went to the polls two weeks ago thinking that it would be a good idea to put a racist in charge of immigration policy in the House of Representatives.

As one of its first acts, the new Congress will consider denying citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants who are born in the United States.

Those children, who are now automatically granted citizenship at birth, will be one of the first targets of the Republican-led House when it convenes in January.

GOP Rep. Steve King of Iowa, the incoming chairman of the subcommittee that oversees immigration, is expected to push a bill that would deny "birthright citizenship" to such children.

And have no doubt, now that Tom Tancredo is retired, Steve King is the most overtly racist member of Congress. He is so extreme that he was the only vote against honoring the slaves who built the Capitol Building. He has accused the president of having a "default mechanism in him that breaks down the side of race - on the side that favors the black person." He has said that you can tell undocumented workers from documented workers by looking at their shoes and grooming. He's said that he doesn't have a problem with people shouting "nigger" and "faggot" at Democratic congressmen because “There are a lot of places in this country that I couldn’t walk through. I wouldn’t live to get to the other end of it.” He's even said that his proudest vote in Congress was to deny funding for New Orleans to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina.

So, get ready. The Republicans' efforts to win over the Latino vote are going to start like this. This effort has no hope of passing the Senate or of avoiding the president's veto pen. It's all a waste of time intended to keep white people pissed off and voting Republican.

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. He is a slime

Can't believe his constituents vote him in every two years.

[Bobbieo]

2. Arizona already has several in charge of immigration with more added to the list every day.

[craigmatic]

3. Why not? Repubs but oil companies in charge of energy policy under bush.

They also put oil compamies in charge of environmental policy.

[ShadowLiberal]

4. Yet again moronic republicans burn minority support on clearly unconstitutional bills

Unless the GOP thinks they have a good chance at getting 'activist' judges to rewrite the constitution in their heads there's no way such a law would hold up in court. The constitution clearly says that people born in the jurisdiction of the United States are US citizens.

So unless the GOP wants to claims that our police officers and US courts couldn't do anything about a foreigner running around robbing every bank in sight because of 'lack of jurisdiction' it's a standard that's pretty well set in stone. Republicans made it a standard that you couldn't rewrite by changing the meaning of the words for a reason, to undo the Dred Scott Supreme Court ruling that uses logic similar to republicans today about why they don't have to amend the constitution to ban birhtright citizenship.