Ted Cruz To Appear On IA Radio Show Days After Host Proposed Enslaving Undocumented Immigrants

Source: Media Matters



Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is scheduled to appear on Jan Mickelson's radio show tomorrow, just days after the Iowa host proposed a plan to enslave undocumented immigrants if they refuse to leave the country.

On his August 17 show, Mickelson proposed an immigration plan that included posting signs around Iowa warning undocumented immigrants that they could either leave or "become property of the state." He added, "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." When confronted about his plan by a caller who said "everybody would believe it sounds like slavery," Mickelson responded, "what's wrong with slavery?"

During an interview with Media Matters, Mickelson stood by his comments, calling them "constitutionally defensible, legally defensible, morally defensible, biblically defensible and historically defensible." He claimed you would likely only have to force "maybe one or two people" to work in a "highly visible fashion," which would lead to "a vast sucking sound of illegals departing the state."

Republican presidential candidates have flocked to Mickelson's show. According to Mickelson, candidates "would understand [his position] from a historical and intellectual point of view," and "most of them would understand my point isn't serious, the point is philosophical." (On his show the day he laid out his plan, Mickelson told a caller, "you think I'm just pulling your leg. I am not.&quot

Read more: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/08/20/ted-cruz-to-appear-on-ia-radio-show-days-after/205070

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Follow-up to yesterday's news:


http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141182798
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But, remember, kids, conservatives say it's Obama who has the "radical associates."

Last I checked, the president denounced Wright and Ayers. But, just as Romney did with Trump and birtherism, Cruz gives this racist asshat a big, sloppy kiss.

Denouncing controversial figures you come into contact is only necessary if you're not a Republican.

And just for a laugh, let's quote Ted on President Obama:

"He's made decisions that I think have inflamed racial tensions -- that have divided us rather than bring us together. "We need leadership that brings us together rather than trying to divide us."

Yeah, slavery really united Americans last time, didn't it, Teddy?