King:Deported DREAMers Like Peace Corps Voluteers

Apparently, and according to a Fox News Latino post, the new chairman of the House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, spent his childhood reading the US Constitution and idolizing the rule of law. Imagine a pick-up baseball game with this kid.

Here are some of the gems gleaned from the Fox piece, for your viewing enjoyment:

• His formative years were influenced by other relatives who were in law enforcement.
  “The adults I grew up around were law enforcement officers, adult men who wore uniforms and enforced the law,” King, 61, says with visible pride.
  The sight of the uniforms, the discussions of law and order that surrounded him, the message of little tolerance for anyone who tried to skirt the law – regardless, in most cases, of the reasons or, as he sees it, excuses – all congealed to form a hard line on illegal immigration.
• This week, he introduced a bill that would deny automatic citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants — a right given to them under the 14th amendment. King says that U.S. born children of illegal immigrants beget chain migration, by then being able to sponsor family members overseas to come here to live.
• In December, he came out swinging against the DREAM Act, a lame-duck bill that passed in the House but failed in the Senate that would have given undocumented youth who meet a strict set of criteria conditional legal status and a chance to become citizens some day.
• If they (DREAMers) speak English, that will help them in their countries,” he says. Through them, he adds, “we can export our way of life. They’d almost be like Peace Corps volunteers.”
• He has called illegal immigration “a slow-motion terrorist attack,” and in 2006 raised the idea of having an electrical current on a fence along the U.S. border, noting “We do that with livestock all the time.”
• He says he doesn’t buy that undocumented youth all are innocent bystanders. He says there are kids who come into the country illegally and unaccompanied, so he doesn’t see them as forced to come here by adults. King sees the DREAM Act as another “amnesty,” another way to reward law-breakers.
• King balks at those who ask for mercy and compassion for people who are undocumented.
  They broke the law, he says. Period.

Nice guy, this King fella.