Thousands call for Kansas Rep.'s resignation due to immigration remarks | KTKA.com: "'It looks like to me if shooting the immigrating hogs works, maybe we have found a (solution) to our illegal immigration problem.'
This comment was heard around the nation, leading to more than 54,000 petitions from across the country being turned into the Governor's office asking for Representative Virgil Peck's resignation.
'Shooting undocumented immigrants from a helicopter like pigs is not a solution to the problem of immigration. In fact, it is part of the problem,' says Lalo Munoz of the Latino Informational Network of Kansas.
Several organizations met on the Capitol's steps to turn in the thousands of signatures and they say politicians should use this as a lesson."
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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