WASHINGTON, D.C. – Iowa Congressman Steve King has a vision for a border wall to keep illegals out.
“Build the Wall,” the re-elected and controversial Republican Congressman said recently via social media. He offered a diagram design of a barrier he called “simple, efficient, & cost effective.” It would be over 11 feet tall, 6 inches wide and topped with razor-sharp barbed wire.
Ten years ago, Rep. King did a demonstration on the House Floor in Washington, D.C., and literally shoed how the wall might be built. He brought construction materials to the demo and showed how to piece it together.
This previously hypothetical wall is now very possible after the election of Donald Trump and the sweeping victory by Republicans into both chambers of Congress.
After the historic election this past November 8, King told Iowa Public Television that
“we’ll have to also appropriate some in order that we get a good jump start on the wall. He (Trump) wants to make it beautiful and I say let me build it, I’ll make it work, I’ll make it big, you worry about beautiful, we could have a good wall.”
King has been a vocal critic of illegal aliens – mainly from south of the border – entering the United States. In controversial remarks in 2013, told Newsmax Magazine that illegal aliens have “calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert” while they weigh just 130 pounds.
King told Newsmax that the immigration debate has created “three groups of supporters in the United States. First, there are the elitists,” King told Newsmax. “Elitists see that they should have access to cheap labor to clean their homes, mow their lawns, and take care of their gardens. The second group is Democratic power brokers. They see a tremendous advantage to the Democratic Party that turns us into a one-party system if they do what they’re trying to do with the Gang of Eight bill in the Senate.
“And the third group is those employers of illegals who benefit from cheap labor at the expense of the taxpayers who are subsidizing them through welfare programs.”
Many Democratic leaders have found King’s remarks to be offensive and do not support a wall as King envisions.
Here is a simple, efficient, & cost effective design to #BuildtheWall. pic.twitter.com/rKfgZ3hurG
— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) November 23, 2016