Rep. Steve King Slams Norquist Over Attacks on Immigration

Rep. King appears to be an extremist xenophobe as he slams Norquist's pro-immigration stance on a U.S. citizenship pathway for DREAMers:

 "He cites those illegals who were brought to the United States by their parents as young children, for instance."

"Some of them are valedictorians — and their parents brought them in. It wasn't their fault. It's true in some cases, but they aren't all valedictorians. They weren't all brought in by their parents."

"For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds — and they’ve got hands the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert,” King tells Newsmax.

Unbelievable that a U.S. Rep. from Iowa is so extreme and mean-spirited against children who are aspiring Americans! 


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AILA Quicktake #33: DOMA Ruling and Immigration

House GOP Finds Everything Wrong With Immigration Law And Tries to Make It Worse - COLORLINES

House GOP Finds Everything Wrong With Immigration Law And Tries to Make It Worse - COLORLINES: "Here’s some of what the SAFE Act does:

Hands states and localities the power to pass and enforce their own criminal and civil penalties for immigration violations.  The provision is in direct opposition to the Supreme Court’s ruling last year over Arizona’s SB 1070.
Authorize all local police to act as immigration agents, essentially nationalizing the 287(g) program, which has been widely criticized for encouraging racial profiling and eroding police-community trust.  
Lets local cops detain immigrants in their jails for up to two weeks and then requires ICE to lock up all immigrants that local cops detain.
Expands the kinds and categories of crimes that make people mandatorily deportable, without recourse to a judge. This would include people the government “has reason to believe” have ever been a member of a gang, even without a conviction."

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House GOP Finds Everything Wrong With Immigration Law And Tries to Make It Worse - COLORLINES

House GOP Finds Everything Wrong With Immigration Law And Tries to Make It Worse - COLORLINES: "After acting for months like the delinquent little cousin of the Senate, the House Judiciary Committee will finally take up immigration reform tomorrow when it considers a bill introduced on Friday by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-SC.  But unlike the Senate immigration reform package that would legalize millions of undocumented immigrants while also expanding border and workplace enforcement, the Gowdy bill does only the later, and in the worst way. The SAFE Act, as it’s called, would vastly expand immigration enforcement programs, curtail legal rights of non-citizens and authorize state and local law enforcement to act like immigration agents whenever they want to.  

“The SAFE Act is a callous assault on immigrants and will just lead to more detentions and deportations,” says Silky Shah of Detention Watch Network. “It would allow for the prolonged detention of thousands of immigrants and require expansion of detention.”"

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House votes to defund Obama's 'administrative amnesty' for immigrants - The Hill's Floor Action

House votes to defund Obama's 'administrative amnesty' for immigrants - The Hill's Floor Action:


"Democrats said King's language is a "poison pill" that would not survive final passage, and that the Supreme Court has ruled that the executive branch has the right to prioritize cases through an order.

"So for the gentleman to argue that there is some constitutional infirmity with deferred action is wrong," Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) said in response to King's arguments. "He's wrong on the law. He's wrong on his constitutional argument.""

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'Show Me Your Papers' Bill Could Make North Carolina The Next Arizona | ThinkProgress

'Show Me Your Papers' Bill Could Make North Carolina The Next Arizona | ThinkProgress:

 "North Carolina is set to vote on a piece of anti-immigration legislation on par with Arizona and Alabama’s racially-tinged laws that drew national attention and ire from immigration advocates. The Reasonable Enactment of Comprehensive Legislation Addressing Immigration Matters (RECLAIM) in North Carolina Act, or HB 786 would expand the scope of law enforcement officials with “reasonable suspicion” to authorize immigration status checks on anyone who has been lawfully stopped."

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The right side of history: Making immigration reform truly comprehensive - The Hill's Congress Blog

Where's the justice in denying some mixed status families protection and deny other families the same right.

The right side of history: Making immigration reform truly comprehensive - The Hill's Congress Blog:
  "Now this same Congress is being called upon to consider a comprehensive immigration reform bill to address the evolving needs of immigrants and their loved ones in the United States. Once again, the question of LGBT inclusion in a fundamental policy in this country has come before Congress. With VAWA, Congress voted definitively for the principle that we could not leave anyone behind – that protection under VAWA had to include everyone who needed the protections of the bill.  With immigration reform, Congress has the opportunity to affirm the principle that they cannot leave any family behind. However, right now, the immigration reform bill fails to affirm that principle: the current proposal is not truly “comprehensive” because it leaves LGBT families behind."

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