Steve King

I don't see any heartburn about that growing number of people here in the United States--or there is a little, I hear a little, but I don't see it being led with that policy.

I lack a lot of confidence in what we might do to grant more license for more open borders

I am very sensitive to issues of coercion because I am an eyewitness to coercion in China

So the short answer to your question, was Margaret Sanger a racist with an organic connection to Nazism, the short answer is yes.

I listen to this discussion and the disproportionate number of female babies that are aborted...

The time, I believe, to legislate against this is now

The insouciance of some of the people on the other side of this issue who are not enthusiastic about the PRENDA bill must derive from the fact that they think these are transitory phenomena

I oppose those policies.

When this Congress goes to such great lengths to specifically protect women and minorities, and the bill that is named after Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony...

I find it ironic to hear the Ranking Member of the full Committee's opening statement on this.

I thank you personally and professionally and from the bottom of the hearts of my constituents for holding this hearing today and bringing forward this piece of legislation.

This addresses a subject matter that we discussed here in this hearing with regard to the effect of sanctuary cities.

Secure Communities is exactly in the same boat.

Congress has never acted on racial profiling.

I certainly support Congressman Graves's bill that sets some priorities.

That brought about water in the Missouri River bottom that, by the time you get to Sioux City, it is--they had--they saw flooding in Sioux City.

And I appreciate the opportunity to be your partner in this. And I would say to the folks on either side of the argument that disagree, they're both wrong, whether they're from the left or from the right. And the bottom line is this: the…

I believe that happens from China as probably the lead globally to do that.

I have yet to hear anybody put all those assets together and make the ask how many prison beds, how many prosecutors, how many judges--how do we actually get 100 percent enforcement on that border.

I would put that up against the losses that we have had on the southern border--25,064 in arrests for homicide generally means at least one grave.

I will just make this point--that it looks to me that the Administration is going down the path of shutting down all state legislation on immigration...

If the attorney general is successful in the litigation that he has initiated on these states that have passed immigration laws...

The Constitution doesn't say so. You can make those references to those--those cases and I won't take issue with that.

That border is not shut down, I can promise you that.

Illegal aliens approach us, volunteering, begging us to deport them from the United States.