Last week, the Republicans on the Judiciary Committee held a hearing trying to drive a wedge between immigrants and African Americans. The new strategy of Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, Immigration Subcommittee Chairman Ed Gallegly, and Vice Chair Steve King is to claim that immigrants take away jobs from African Americans. The effort was immediat...
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The annual conservative CPAC confab continued to mine anti-immigrant xenophobia heading into its wrap-up today. Tom Tancredo, the national spokesman for a a host of organizations, spoke about the danger of immigrants at the conference on Friday. Afterward he was interviewed by Mother Jones magazine when he warned that Muslim immigrants are planning on...
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The new Vice Chairman of the House Immigration Subcommittee, Steve King, represents an area of Iowa with one of the lowest concentrations of immigrants in the United States. He has an extensive record of antagonism towards immigrants King’s website has an extensive discussion of immigration. While he is known primarily as an opponent of...
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A hard line conservative will be the next chairman of the House Immigration Subcommittee, but it won’t be Iowa Rep. Steve King.  Instead, Californian Elton Gallegly, also known for staunch anti-immigrant views, will head the committee. King apparently embarrassed Republican leaders with over the top rhetoric like threatening to deport liberals. King had been...
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With Congressman Steve King likely to play a major role in immigration policy over the next two years, I thought this insight into his thinking supplied by TPM might be useful. It isn’t about anchor babies, but about “garbage can babies”. And it isn’t about immigration, but instead about healthcare reform. In it he...
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Steve King, the likely head of the House Immigration Subcommittee, set the tone for immigration reform in this session of Congress today by unveiling his bill to deprive the children of the undocumented of U.S. citizenship. From Politico: King’s measure would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act, ending automatic citizenship for anyone born in...
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Julia Preston of the New York Times posted a report on an interview she conducted with Iowa Representative Steve King, the likely new Republican head of the House Immigration Subcommittee. He spoke to her of his priorities going forward: e will push for a bill that would cancel employers’ tax deductions for wages of...
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The debate over the DREAM Act has begun in the House. Two Republicans, Floridians Mario Diaz Balart and Ileana Ros Lehtinen, have spoken out in favor of the DREAM Act. Steve King, soon to be the head of the Immigration Subcommittee, gave an impassioned speech against the bill: “The Nightmare Act is Amnesty. It...
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Steve King, likely new House Immigration Subcommittee Chair, favors worksite raids
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Steve King, the likely new chairman of the House Immigration Subcommittee, spoke recently about his plans for immigration reform to the Des Moines Register.  King, who is associated with The Minutemen, an armed anti-immigrant organization, says that taking away citizenship from the children of undocumented immigrants will be a high priority: For his part,...
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