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Congressman Mo Brooks won't back off "anything short of shooting them" illegal immigrant threat
Huntsville Times ^ | 07/19/11 | Lee Roop

Posted on 07/19/2011 8:35:33 AM PDT by TomServo

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - Hispanics nationally are stepping up their criticism, but U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks won't apologize for saying he would "do anything short of shooting them" to keep illegal immigrants out of America.

"I'm not going to back off because these folks want to resort to name-calling," Brooks said Monday. Brooks spoke after a week in which he was criticized by the head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and two groups of Hispanic Republicans.

U.S. Rep. Charles Gonzalez, D-Tex., urged Brooks' Republican colleagues last Wednesday to repudiate his comments. Those comments include Brooks comparing illegal immigrants to house-breakers as he defended Alabama's tough new immigration law.

At a town meeting in June, Brooks said he supports any measure "short of shooting them" that would force illegal immigrants back to their home countries.

"Rhetoric referencing acts of violence has no place in the discussion for realistic solutions to our country's immigration problems," Gonzalez said. "Words have consequences, and Congressman Brooks chose irresponsible words that reflect a hateful, dehumanizing undercurrent in the discussion on immigration."

The Republican group "Somos Republicans!" said on its website that Brooks "should apologize for his remarks, stop bashing immigrants, and instead work with his colleagues on a complete overhaul of our broken immigration system."

Another group, Arizona Hispanic Republicans, said Brooks "is no Christian Compassionate."

Brooks dismissed his critics as supporters of complete amnesty for illegals and said their comments are "traditional politics."

"I was speaking in hyperbole in order to emphasize a point," Brooks said of his "anything short of shooting them" remark.

He noted that the next sentence in his oft-quoted comment was, "Anything that is lawful, it needs to be done because illegal aliens need to quit taking jobs from American citizens."

"Anything that is lawful," Brooks emphasized Monday.

Brooks brushed aside questions about whether his remarks are a distraction in the immigration debate or cast Alabama in a negative light.

"They don't like Alabama or Alabama's immigration law," he said of his critics.

Brooks said his stand is popular across the country. He's been on media outlets in various places, he said, and was told last week by a Texas politician that he could easily win office in Houston.

Brooks and controversy are becoming linked. His Wikipedia page now has a "controversies" section. It details the "anything short of shooting them" controversy and the April flap that followed him calling some House members "socialists" on the House floor. Brooks withdrew that remark from the record after being criticized..


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; aztlan; border; immigration; mexico
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1 posted on 07/19/2011 8:35:38 AM PDT by TomServo
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To: TomServo

When are the rest of our “leaders” going to get the message:

WE DON’T WANT THEM HERE . . . PERIOD.


2 posted on 07/19/2011 8:37:32 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Now that Weiner's gone . .time to get wid of Fwank)
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To: TomServo

No apologies! He’s absolutely right!


3 posted on 07/19/2011 8:40:55 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)
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4 posted on 07/19/2011 8:41:13 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: TomServo

The only thing that is broken in the immigration system is the fact it isn’t enforced.

Build a wall, deport all the criminals and with whoever is left, offer the opportunity to touch up providing their employer will sponsor them. Anyone who is receiving benefits, has to go back and apply. No touch up applies to them. They have to get in line.


5 posted on 07/19/2011 8:42:07 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (As long as the MSM covers for Obama, he will be above the law)
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To: TomServo

WTF? Congressional Hispanic Caucus? Congressional Black Caucus? Do we have a Congressional White Caucus? I thought not...


6 posted on 07/19/2011 8:43:02 AM PDT by NCjim (Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.)
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To: NCjim

We need a Congressional AMERICAN Caucus rather than all this division into special interest teams!


7 posted on 07/19/2011 8:45:05 AM PDT by NCjim (Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.)
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To: TomServo

I’m okay with shooting illegal immigrants. Mexico does it on their southern border and if they can do it to Guatamalans, Hondurans, and etc. then they should not whine when we do it to Mexican criminals who try to breach our borders.


8 posted on 07/19/2011 8:51:40 AM PDT by MeganC (Are you better off than you were four years ago?)
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To: TomServo
U.S. Rep. Charles Gonzalez, D-Tex., urged Brooks' Republican colleagues last Wednesday to repudiate his comments.

Texas, don't mess with Alabama.

9 posted on 07/19/2011 8:55:47 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: NCjim
WTF? Congressional Hispanic Caucus?

Lets be honest.

Congressional Hispanic Caucus, simply means screw all white people, we're taking what you got and taking over the entire country, because our people reproduce like ants, even if they can't afford to feed their kids...We'll totally out number you in less than 1 generation...

10 posted on 07/19/2011 9:01:00 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: TomServo
Audemus jura nostra defendere

Roll Tide, and Yea, Alabama.

11 posted on 07/19/2011 9:02:19 AM PDT by chesley (Eat what you want, and die like a man.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

End family reunification.

Anyone deported loses all rights to ever become a citizen.

End dual citizeenship.

Impeach Obama. Ok, I just threw that las one in there.


12 posted on 07/19/2011 9:04:29 AM PDT by chesley (Eat what you want, and die like a man.)
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To: TomServo
I think what he said is rather mild, considering the fact that the illegal aliens are shooting thousands of us every year.

Good for him for not apologizing.

13 posted on 07/19/2011 9:05:55 AM PDT by AAABEST (Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
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To: TomServo

Lets just send the rest of them back to California, and give Cali back to Mexico (them and the libs have already ruined the state anyway), then build a wall and whoever crosses it becomes a terrorist.

It would solve a couple of problems, the illegals, the MeCHa and La Raza groups, the libs, the ridiculous advantage CA has in the electoral college, their bankruptcy.

BTW, I was born and reared in CA and escaped a few years ago and moved back to America.


14 posted on 07/19/2011 9:13:09 AM PDT by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, now Christian - "I once was lost, but now am found; was blind but now I see")
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To: chesley

Agreed. My father and stepfather risked their lives coming here (legally) from Eastern Europe. My father escaped to Paris then got his paperwork for a visa. My stepfather spent 18 months in a refugee camp working 18 hours a day for a bowl of pasta (he never would eat spaghetti after that) for a CHANCE to come to America.

When I was growing up, we sponsored several of his relatives to come over and become citizens.

They all learned English, became Americans, flew American flags and worked hard and never took a dime of welfare.

These illegals are spitting on the sacrifices my family made and I’m sick of it.


15 posted on 07/19/2011 9:16:41 AM PDT by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, now Christian - "I once was lost, but now am found; was blind but now I see")
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To: TomServo
LEGAL = GOOD
ILLEGAL = BAD

Why is that so difficult?

16 posted on 07/19/2011 9:17:08 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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When Sonny Bono was running for Senate in 1992, he was asked by a local news reporter (Palm Springs) what his views about ‘illegal aliens’ were.

His response was “What views? They are not legal.”


17 posted on 07/19/2011 9:21:47 AM PDT by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, now Christian - "I once was lost, but now am found; was blind but now I see")
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To: TomServo

How is it controversial to use force to stop an invasion sanctioned by another nation? The Mexican problem is no different than an invasion fleet landing on our shores. Invaders, loot, steel, kill. I can’t see much difference between an invading army and the criminal aliens.


18 posted on 07/19/2011 9:43:18 AM PDT by onighost29
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To: TomServo

Get these useless People OUT OF HERE,they are from failed Societies,By their own hand,Not a good resume!!


19 posted on 07/19/2011 9:46:19 AM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
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To: TomServo

This congressman must learn the truth: the word “hyperbole” is beyond the vocabulary of the American people.


20 posted on 07/19/2011 9:50:54 AM PDT by Theodore R.
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