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(30,439 posts) Thu Aug 20, 2015, 05:55 PM Aug 2015

Right-Wing Radio Host Suggests Slavery as Solution to Undocumented Immigration

by Andrew Kirell | 3:41 pm, August 20th, 2015

This week, Iowa-based conservative radio host Jan Mickelson suggested the best way to remove undocumented immigrants from the United States would be to threaten them with “compelled labor,” or, something commonly known as slavery.

“Who is Mickelson?” you ask. The incendiary WHO Radio host is a close ally of Rep. Steve King (R-IA) and boasts of playing a role in the Republican presidential primary race by having interviewed every current candidate except for Jeb Bush.

During his Monday morning radio show, Mickelson recalled a conversation he had with an “open borders activist” (read: someone opposed to mass deportation), and said that instead of rounding up every undocumented worker in Iowa, he’d simply put up signs warning of impending slavery (emphasis added):

I would put them on the end of the highway, on western part of the interstate system, and I’d put them on the eastern side of the state, right there on the interstate system, and in the north on the Minnesota border, and on the south Kansas and Missouri border and I would just say this: “As of this date… 30 to 60 days from now anyone who is in the state of Iowa that who is not here legally and who cannot demonstrate their legal status to the satisfaction of the local and state authorities here in the State of Iowa, become property of the State of Iowa.”
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And we start using compelled labor, the people who are here illegally would therefore be owned by the state and become an asset of the state rather than a liability and we start inventing jobs for them to do.