In a recent Newsmax TV interview, Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King speculated on the potential reaction among Republicans should Barack Obama unilaterally grant amnesty to millions of illegals currently residing in the United States. He explained that he has already planned his response.
“I’ve said that wherever I am, if I’m not in Washington, I will go to the airport,” he said. “I’m going to call on John Boehner to call for a special session. I’m going to hope he beats me to that; I hope he’s anticipating that too.”
While he recalled the extensive protests around the United States Capitol in response to ObamaCare, King suggested that a more direct approach will be necessary to express disapproval of such a sweeping immigration policy.
“I don’t figure that going to the capital and asking people to come there to surround the Capitol does us any good,” he said, “but surrounding the White House might.”
Such a protest, he explained, might be the only way to stop this policy should it become a reality.
King then made a reference to “the I-word” before declaring that “everything is on the table.”
When asked to clarify, he acknowledged that he believes impeachment should be discussed in the context of executive action granting amnesty to millions.
“We cannot have a president of the United States who believes he can make up the law as he goes,” King asserted, adding Obama has already asked immigration officials to violate our law by “refusing to put people into removal proceedings that they encounter that are here illegally.”
Failure to act swiftly in preventing amnesty from taking place, he warned, would transform America into a “lawless third world nation with a king sitting in the White House – and it won’t be me.”
America’s founders, he concluded, foresaw the possibility of voters electing a lawless president, which is why they included the remedy of impeachment in our Constitution. Also enumerated in that document, he noted, is the right to stand up and speak out against such a regime.
“If the president violates the Constitution, we have every right … to exercise our Constitutional right to let him know we’re not going to tolerate it,” he said.