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A California representative attacks Jason Chaffetz over illegal immigration and tent cities.
California Rep. Mike Honda and the Republican nominee for Utah's 3rd Congressional District seat, Jason Chaffetz, talked about the issue on KSL's Doug Wright Show.
Honda was forced to live in a World War II Japanese interment camp and says Chaffetz was wrong to talk about tent cities for illegals. He says, "I think he was quoted as saying, "We ought to round them all up, and if they don't go back voluntarily, then we pick them up and send them back to where they came from."
"We are talking about people," Honda says. "And we are talking about people who made movements based upon a lot of our national policies that may have not been as thoughtful as they should have been."
Chaffetz says don't call him a racist. He says he never singled out an ethnic group in his immigration proposal. He says, "Because there's nothing, absolutely nothing to do with race here."
He said it's time to do something instead of just talk about immigration reform. On his Web site, Chaffetz says, "I will not support or vote for amnesty in any way, shape or form. If you are here illegally, there is no pathway to citizenship, except to apply from your country of origin."
Chaffetz maintains he's simply following the recommendation by the Western Governors Association.
E-mail: mrichards@ksl.com
