Rep. Steve King Compares U.S.-Mexican Border To The Middle East

Last night on the House floor, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) led a colloquy with fellow Democrats to commemorate Jewish American Heritage Month. 

After the discussion concluded, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) took the floor to address the issue of immigration.  King introduced the topic by drawing a comparison between the threat to Israel and the situation on the U.S.-Mexican border.   

While the U.S. does not have neighbors who want to "erase" it from the map, King said, "We do have some neighbors that would like to take chunks out of the great southwest of the United States and change the map of the United States of America."

KING: I'd like to send a message here tonight to encourage the nation of Israel, the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and all the people who stand up for liberty in that part of the world.  It is one thing to defend your freedom and your liberty throughout the generations as we have in this country.  It's another to be completely surrounded by enemies who would like to annihilate you as a people and as a country.  And we have no neighbors that draw maps of the world that erase the United States from that map.  We do have some neighbors that would like to take some chunks out of the great southwest of the United States and change the map of the United States of America.  

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Moments later, King dropped the analogy and moved on to a conversation with Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) on border security and the Arizona immigration law.

Nonetheless, mentioning Israel's security and U.S. immigration in the same breath is absurd.  Israel has neighbors that actually consider themselves at war with Israel.  That's obviously not the case here, despite King's belief that undocumented immigration is a "slow-motion terrorist attack."