Today, Rep. Steve King (R-IA), gave his thoughts on the bombings in Boston. He has decided to put forward that an immigrant might have done it and since it might be an immigrant, immigration reform must be stalled.
"If we can’t background-check people that are coming from Saudi Arabia, how do we think we are going to background-check the 11 to 20 million people that are here from who knows where?"
He clearly is blowing dog whistles for his perpetually crazy constituency. I would like to see what evidence he is privy to that indicates to him that it is an immigrant. I think he is simply stating the first racist, ignorant nonsense that enters his head.
He has acknowledged that we can only speculate at this point, but then went on to provide the most ridiculous suggestion yet.
King has a history of being extremely anti-immigration holding questionable beliefs. He also has a history of saying crazy, racist and ignorant things. So really, this is just business as usual for the Congressman.
It would be nice if the people of Iowa booted him from office, but I don;t see that happening any time soon.
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