Racism is never a joking matter.
'Illegals should be shot like hogs': Kansas State lawmaker Virgil Peck remains defiant after immigration gaffe | Mail Online: "A state legislator caused controversy yesterday by saying illegal immigrants should be treated like wild hogs - and shot by gunmen from helicopters.
Kansas Republican representative Virgil Peck made the comments at a state spending meeting for controlling feral swine.
Mr Peck made his comment during a discussion by the House Appropriations Committee on state spending for controlling feral swine. ... After one of the committee members talked about a program that uses hunters in helicopters to shoot wild swine, Mr Peck suggested that may be a way to control illegal immigration.
He said: 'It looks like to me if shooting these immigrating feral hogs works maybe we have found (a solution) to our illegal immigration problem.'
Despite the outrage, he said he was only joking and that he 'was just speaking like a southeast Kansas person.'"
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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