Thread: Snub for Top Immigration Post Doesn't Muzzle Rep. Steve King

Snub for Top Immigration Post Doesn't Muzzle Rep. Steve King

By Elizabeth Llorente

Published January 12, 2011

2006: Iowa Rep. Steve King was passed over to chair the House subcommittee on immigration.

His bluntness is what is believed to have cost Iowa Republican Steve King the chairmanship of the House Judiciary immigration subcommittee last week.

But the apparent snub hasn’t mellowed King. Shortly after the snub, he told the weekly magazine The National Journal that House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, was to blame for his being passed over to head the subcommittee.

“The speaker holds the big gavel, and he decides who gets the other gavels,â€

States That Try to Circumvent 14th Amendment Will Face Legal Challenge

For immediate release: Jan. 5, 2011

Contact: Madeline Friedman (212) 739-7581

Any state that tries to circumvent the 14th Amendment’s American Citizenship Clause with a state law to ban birthright citizenship will face a legal challenge, a national civil rights group announced today.

LatinoJustice PRLDEF is prepared to sue any state that enacts laws preventing children born in the U.S. to undocumented parents from becoming citizens at birth.

That right is covered by the U.S. 14th Amendment and has been upheld by the courts numerous times.

“The very purpose of the 14th amendment was to insure that we would not have a caste system in which the children born in our country would have no chance of ever becoming citizens equal to all others,â€

Gallegly also has been the force behind past proposed measures to deny public elementary and high school education to undocumented children, and also supported a measure that would have required hospital workers to ask patients for immigration documents.

But moderate Republicans and those with a liberal view on illegal immigration say Gallegly’s rhetoric is nowhere near as pugnacious as that of King’s who, among other things, once suggested in a congressional speech that the U.S. could use an electrified fence – a handy tool, he said, for livestock -- to stop people from illegally crossing the border.



Any and all means to stop the swarms that cross our southern border daily and are devouring our resources should be used. It isn't just one thing that will stop the bleeding, it is a combination of many that is needed - ie - E-verify, biometrics, 287g, harsher penalties for employers of illegals and the illegals, no eligibility for taxpayers subsidized services, thousands more troops on the border whether they be more border patrol or National Guard, concrete barriers, hugh ditches, (I know I've forgot some but I'm trying!), and very, very importantly - no automatic birthright citizenship along with no amnesty of any kind. Since we are not going to revoke the citizenship of those children born here, at the very least make them ineligible to sponsor any parents and family members.

If this could be done, it would help the goals of self deportation:

at the very least make them ineligible to sponsor any parents and family members.

moderate Republicans and those with a liberal view on illegal immigration

I hope that most won't have a job in 2012. Conservatives fight using the system of voting, and elections. We don't like it when the other side "cheats".