You would think that given how much lip service is being paid to the issues of the economy and employment by the right, that the the GOP run Congress, fresh from victory, would be anxious to get their hands busy around those themes. But no. Instead, Republican Congressman from Iowa, Steve King is getting ready to attack the root of all these issues……Anchor babies!

Yes they are back, those deceptively cute children on the undocumented who want nothing more than to fuck up your life.

In all seriousness, Steve King, using real colonial, border heavy language that dehumanizes not just the children of immigrants, but by default immigrant mothers, has come out of the gate making ending birthright citizenship at the very least a talking point, at the very worst, a legislative priority.

From The Hill :

“I think we are at least in the House,” King told the conservative website Newsmax when asked if the new Congress would pass legislation to address so-called “anchor babies.”

“I think it’s time to put a marker down,” King said, acknowledging the difficulty of passing such legislation in the Senate, and getting President Obama to sign it. “And I think we will have the votes in the House to put an end to the anchor babies in this country.”