Rep. Steve King, the Iowa Republican who once described illegal immigration as a "slow-motion holocaust" and recently introduced an unconstitutional bill to eliminate birthright citizenship has been passed over for the chairmanship of the House immigration subcommittee, despite being the ranking member. Instead, California Rep. Elton Gallegly is getting the job.
I don't know that there's any daylight between Gallegly and King on immigration policy. Gallegly also supports unconstitutional legislation to limit birthright citizenship to children with legal resident or citizen mothers, which would increase the population of undocumented immigrants from 11 million today to 19 million by 2050. But it sounds like Republicans may have concluded that King's tendency to make outlandish statements might have done more harm than good to their ultimate policy objectives and it wasn't worth putting him in a high profile position.
