Rep. Steve King (R-IA) Begs President Obama: ‘Please Dont’ Make Me Impeach You Over Immigration EO's

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Source: The Raw Story Sunday, August 3, 2014 11:09 EDT

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) pleaded with President Barack Obama not to force the House of Representatives to begin impeachment hearings by taking executive action on reforming the immigration process after Congress failed to do so. In an interview on Sunday, Fox News host Chris Wallace asked King what Republicans would do if the president decided to take executive action to stop the deportation of 11 million undocumented immigrants.

“None of us want to do the thing that’s left for us as an alternative,” King explained. “But if the president has decided that he’s simple not going to enforce any immigration law or at least not against anybody except the felons — which essentially he has done already, this is a broader group of people — I think Congress has to sit down and have a serious look at the rest of this Constitution, and that includes that i-word that we don’t want to say.”

The Iowa Republican added: “And I only say that now because I want to encourage the president, ‘Please don’t put America into a constitutional crisis. Please don’t do that. There’s too much at stake in this country to be decided that you can take over the Constitution and write it at will.’” “You’re saying that if he were to do that, impeachment would be on the table?” Wallace pressed.

“I think then we have to sit down and take a look at that,” King insisted. “If that’s not enough to bring that about then I don’t know what would be. We’ve never seen anything in this country like a president who says I’m going make up all the immigration law that I choose.”

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/03/steve-king-begs-obama-please-dont-make-me-impeach-you-over-immigration/