If We Can’t Secure the Doors to a
Congressional Office,’ How Are We Going to Secure the Border?
Rep. Steve King Explains How ‘Illegal Aliens’ ‘Invaded’ His Office
Rep. Steve King Explains How ‘Illegal Aliens’ ‘Invaded’ His Office
Jun. 14, 2013 1:47pm
Rep.
Steve King (R-Iowa) on Friday told Glenn Beck how his Capitol Hill office was
swarmed by immigrant activists one day earlier, and asked how lawmakers expect
to secure the border “if we can’t secure the doors to a congressional office
building.”
King
had tweeted Thursday that “20 brazen self professed illegal
aliens have just invaded my DC office. Obama’s lawless order gives them de
facto immunity from U.S. law.” The demonstrators, wearing graduation gowns, identified themselves on Twitter as part of United We
Dream, which bills itself as the “largest immigrant youth-led network.”
“They
came into the office, about 20 of them,” King told Beck on his radio program.
“They filled the office, there was no room for people to come and go, they
refused to leave. That went on, according to their tweets, 40 minutes. The
Capitol Hill police arrived and told them to leave.”
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source: Twitter user @maricelaguilar
King,
who is part of a group of 70
House Republicans trying to defeat an immigration reform bill they say will
mean amnesty, said he found the protest “very disrespectful.”
“When
you get to the point where people that are by law directed to be placed into
deportation proceedings, if they are so brazen that they will fill a member’s
office and then demand that we legalize their illegal activity — there’s
something about mercy, and if you look through the Bible, mercy is not the
province of the civil government, it’s the province of God,” he said.
He
continued, “mercy is always accompanied by repentance, and I saw no sign of
repentance yesterday, it was a demand. That’s what we’re dealing with…if we
can’t secure the doors to a congressional office building, how in the world
does [Arizona Republican Sen.] John McCain and [New York Democratic Sen.] Chuck
Schumer think we’re going to secure the borders?”
1 comment:
Should have locked the doors and called INS.
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