Iowa State Sen. Mark Chelgren Suggests Death Penalty for Some Immigrant Felons

[IDemo]

Source: NBC News

An Iowa state senator running for U.S. Congress is getting blasted by both his Republican Party and Democrats after saying that immigrant felons who try to re-enter America illegally should be executed.

State Sen. Mark Chelgren's controversial comments were published Monday by the Journal Express of Knoxville and Marion County, which presented his views on border security and immigration. The newspaper said the two-term state legislator believes in a fence to help protect the nation's borders, and that if an undocumented person who committed a felony is deported and then tries to return to the U.S., he or she should be subject to capital punishment.

"There is no reason to have felons here who threaten our way of life," Chelgren told the Journal Express, which added that he respects immigrants who are legally in the country.

Officials with the Republican Party of Iowa, however, sought to distance themselves from Chelgren, saying in a statement that "these remarks do not represent the values and beliefs of Iowa Republicans. Period," reported the Des Moines Register.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/iowa-state-sen-mark-chelgren-certain-immigrant-felons-should-be-n472491

[geomon666]

1. It's almost like they don't have any respect for human life.

Oh wait, that's exactly what it is.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

3. Or in other words, he has more respect for an imaginary line

in the sand, than a human life.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Note his name. This man is a genius. He'll climb to the top of the Republican pile.

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Senator Mark Chelgren.



Senator Mark Chelgren in his leisure time.



What a Republican!

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[Live and Learn]

4. Good gawd, killing is nothing to these people. nt

[PSPS]

5. "who threaten our way of life"

"There is no reason to have felons here who threaten our way of life," Chelgren told the Journal Express

Sorry, but I want no part of such a "way of life." Your "way of life" consists of a pile of dead bodies. These guys get erections when others suffer. Ours is a country where those who are too dangerous to be allowed to wander free in society are, instead, elected to political office.

[herding cats]

6. This sort of rhetoric isn't something we can just laugh off as the "crazies in the RW" anymore.

I know a lot of us thought logic would eventually prevail, but I'm not so sure anymore. Actually, I seriously doubt that at this point.

It's not a handful of obviously RW states pushing this sort of stuff anymore. Look at the US Congress, and look at how many states these nuts have made substantial gains in since 2010. This isn't something to laugh at anymore as not impacting you, if it ever was that is. This is now impacting all of us.

Letting the loons get into office hasn't worked out for us so well. They're spreading like a fungus in a warm moist environment.

[Oldtimeralso]

7. This area is where my in-laws live.

It is also where the GOP float led the Fourth of July parade flying the confederate "Stars and Bars".
I was in a diner there once and the owner came walking through and was asking if everything was OK.
One old-timer replied "How and anything be OK with a f---ing n----r as President.

I swear that some times during the night I can hear the banjos from Deliverance !

[cynzke]

8. And Yet....

This idiot managed to get elected because the lunatics came out and bothered to vote. Congratulations to those who stayed home and let lunatics vote for them. Bumper Sticker: DON'T BLAME US...WE DIDN'T VOTE. Reality check....YES YOU DID.