REVEALED: Citizenship Dir. Cuccinelli Has Been Railing Against “Alien Invaders” Responsible For “Terrorism” For Many Years

Acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Ken Cuccinelli, rose to notoriety recently when he suggested that the famous, welcoming words on the Statue of Liberty could be better phrased, “give me your tired, your poor, who can stand on their own two feet and will not become a public charge.” He didn’t arrive at that charitable notion overnight. He’s been bashing immigrants for years, calling them, “foreign invaders” responsible for “serious infectious diseases, drug running, gang violence, human trafficking, terrorism,” and he founded a group that said as much. CNN:

The group, State Legislators for Legal Immigration, was established in 2007, when an immigration revamp was being hotly debated in Congress. Its founding principle was that undocumented immigration represented an invasion of the United States on par with foreign invasion that should justify invoking war powers under the Constitution — extreme rhetoric Cuccinelli has continued to use in recent years, and that has been adopted by President Donald Trump and other Republicans.

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Speaking with Breitbart radio in October of last year, Cuccinelli argued that states could use “war powers” to block Central American migrants, many of whom were reportedly planning to seek asylum in the US and who’d formed a so-called caravan, from coming across the border.

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“We’ve been being invaded for a long time, and so the border states clearly qualify here to utilize this power themselves. And what’s interesting is they don’t need anyone’s permission,” Cuccinelli said. “They can do it themselves. And because they’re acting under war powers, there’s no due process. They can literally just line their National Guard up with, presumably with riot gear like they would if they had a civil disturbance, and turn people back at the border. Literally, you don’t have to keep them, no catch and release, no nothing. You just point them back across the river and let them swim for it.”

“State Legislators for Legal Immigration has been formed to serve as a unifying force to bring all levels of government together to terminate America’s illegal alien invasion from the Keystone State of Pennsylvania; to every city, community, small town, main street, front porch and back yard; across our fruited plains; and from sea to shining sea,” the group’s website read at the time, drawing from “America the Beautiful.”