WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Steve King released the following statement after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Democrat New York Senator Chuck Schumer took to the Senate Floor and, according to King “to, once again, attack [me] on immigration and goad Republicans into passing amnesty”:
“Once again, I’m flattered by Senator Schumer, and now Majority leader Harry Reid’s attempt to insult me, yet give me 100 percent of the credit for blocking their amnesty agenda,” said King. “Their goal is to bait Republicans into passing amnesty. I want to remind our Republican leadership that there is a hook in the bait that Schumer and Reid are dangling – and you are smarter than to take it and get caught. Their goal always has been and always will be to divide Republicans and unite Democrats.
The only way the American people lose is if John Boehner and the rest of our Republican leadership take the bait dangled before them on the Senate Floor again this week. I have stated time and time again, and my resolve could not be stronger – I will continue to focus on restoring the Rule of Law above all else in this immigration debate and I urge my colleagues to do the same.
And by the way, It doesn’t trouble me at all that Senate Democratic leadership is troubled by me.”
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Isn’t the rule of law to actually debate and vote on the things that are put before our congress?
If you are for it or against it, let’s put it to a vote and get the nation moving and strengthening instead of all of the back and forth finger pointing.
To be fair, he may be referring to the fact that immigration laws do exist and there is a formal legalization and naturalization process, which is almost entirely being ignored. If you want to give a large chunk of the southwest over to Mexico, let’s just do that, but to sit and pretend that laws sometimes and sometimes not exist (as in the case of illegal tailpipes), makes a mockery out of the legitimacy of the rule of law in the first place.
Yes, I’m sure that’s what he meant. But shouldn’t he be doing his taxpayer supported job just as he’s complaining about others not doing theirs the way he thinks they should?
And it’s not just him, either. That’s not what I’m saying here. But there’s clearly a problem and why not get to legislating it rather than showboating it?
The problem is that white America has very little moral ground to stand on in regards to indigenous native peoples and territory. However, it’s access to the system they are after, not territory, so in the end it’s a wash. Americans built a powerful wealthy nation, Hispanics (at least the Yaqui and Chiapas Indian integrated ones), were here first, so a compromise must be had. For starters, the Mexican government should be required to pay for every illegal national found in America.
“AWWW poor baaaby”