Posted on 08/05/2014 11:42:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Okoboji, Iowa (CNN) Republican Rep. Steve King was confronted Monday night at his own fundraiser by an undocumented immigrant and activist who argued with the Iowa congressman over his stance on immigration.
Erika Andiola, whos involved with the Arizona DREAM Act Coalition, mostly took issue with Kings vote last week to curb the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that allows certain young people - who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children - to delay deportation.
House Republicans argue the policy, enacted under President Barack Obama's administration, has helped spur the crisis in which more than 60,000 children from Central America have fled to the U.S.-Mexico border this year.
Andiola introduced herself as a beneficiary of DACA as King was eating dinner at the fundraiser, which took place at an open restaurant in Okoboji, Iowa.
I know you really want to get rid of DACA, so I just wanted to give you the opportunity and rip mine, Andiola said, handing King a piece of paper.
The congressman studied the paper and stood up, saying, This is not what I do.
The two then entered a lengthy back-and-forth with both talking over each other repeatedly. In the exchange, King defended his 2013 controversial comments about undocumented immigrants having calves the size of cantaloupes.
I spoke of drug smugglers, he told Andiola. Now youre not here to tell me youre one of them, are you?
Andiola said she came to the country from Mexico with her mother when she was 11 and has lived in the U.S. for 17 years. She said her mother was escaping an abusive relationship, and they already had family in the U.S., so they came across the border.
Her mom had applied to get into the U.S. legally but was denied, she said.
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But she worked for our Congress critter who is up for re-election, the bi-sexual Kyrsten Sinema.
So, having not gotten her way, she took the law into her own hands. When you do it, the left brands you a criminal, a dissident, a terrorist, a vigilante, whatever. But, it's A-OK when they do it. Ludicrous.
There's no incentive to become a citizen, nor even to learn English. She gets taxpayer-funded services thrown at her--services citizens cannot get--and lives nearly tax free, paying only sales tax. Why would she become a citizen?
Way to GO Representative King!!
You stand up for all of us.
we should call his office and say thank you
202-225-4426
These bozos are not Americans. If they want to gripe about something, I suggest that they go home and gripe to their own government. As stated above, King should have had them arrested. He is not their representative.
This person is NOT an "undocumented immigrant" - she is an ILLEGAL ALIEN. We have to stop letting the left dictate the terminology of the debate. Calling someone an undocumented immigrant is like calling shoplifting an "undocumented purchase."
Escaping “an abusive relationship” in Mexico does not qualify her mother to be asylum seeking “refugee”. This woman is a sicko. She obviously doesn’t know much about how the law works. She probably doesn’t care either.
It sounds like Steve King did fine, but apparently Rand Paul was there and “bravely ran away.”
“Her mom had applied to get into the U.S. legally but was denied, she said”
So she did it anyway.
And the blowhard King did not have her arrested. Can we not have one elected official do what he/she is elected to do?
What authorities would take her into custody ?
That's what you can expect from intellects with all the breadth and depth of a bumper-sticker.
There is ICE everywhere. Stall her in debate until they arrive. Local officers. Who cares as long as she gets the perp walk.
Good luck with that.
Well Ms. you've already acknowledged breaking into this country, now let's talk about the free ride you also took in the last 17 years.
How much did it cost American Citizens to educate you thru K-12?
How much did it cost American Citizens to provide you with a College Education and was a seat taken from an American Citizen for it?
How much did it cost American Citizens to provide Health Coverage to you and your Mother in the last 17 years?
How much did it cost American Citizens to house and protect you and your mother the past 17 years?
Finally do you think it would be alright is someone broke into your house, ate your food, raped your daughter, killed your Son, infected your parents with some disease that was virtually illiminated in this country 50 years ago, ransacked your home and then bitched about not being treated humanely? Or filed a lawsuit against you for not helping them do it?
And the blowhard King did not have her arrested. Can we not have one elected official do what he/she is elected to do?
He should have done a CITZEN’S ARREST
Good question about his negotiating skills with foreign invaders.
HE'S GOT FIRE IN HIS BELLY!
Biggest illegal alien hawk in the congress, BAR NONE! Unfortunately, he has to fight about 75% of the congress to get his bills through and that's nearly impossible.
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