Watch out, Arizona Congressional District 7. According to Rep. Steve King (R-IA), you may now be a part of Mexico.
King said on Fox News last night that Rep. Raul Grijalva’s (D-AZ) district may have been “already ceded” to Mexico, and suggested that Grijalva is “advocating for Mexico rather than the United States.”
Last week, Grijalva called on organizations to boycott his state until it disavows a controversial new immigration law that requires law enforcement officers to demand papers from anyone they might reasonably suspect is in the country illegal. Opponents of the law argue it will lead to racial profiling.
Last night on Fox News, Laura Ingraham asked King about the boycott, while also calling the new law “wildly popular.”
Here’s his response:
He’s trying to scare the businesses out of Arizona, or he’s trying to get the businesses to change their position and press the legislature to reverse the law that was just signed by the governor the other day. I’m wondering if we look at the map of Congressman Grijalva’s congressional district, if we haven’t already ceded that component of Arizona to Mexico, judging by the voice that comes out of him. He’s advocating for Mexico rather than the United States and against the rule of law, which is one of the central pillars of American exceptionalism.
Watch:
(h/t Media Matters)
