Through social media. Send us a tweet or join the conversation on facebook. You can also email us. Host here is the headline in the Washington Post. Gop leaders denounced steve king for calling most Illegal Immigrants drug mules. Republicans have a steve king problem. L. A. Times said House Speaker john boehner denounces steve ignorantnt comments on immigration. Lets take a look at what the iowa congressman said. This was an interview with news max talking about who Illegal Immigrants are. Host well, the Washington Post and reflecting upon that and covering the aftermath said House Republican leaders are denouncing one of their own for remarks made last night last week that disparaged most Illegal Immigrants as drug smugglers. It came as the gop is trying to improve its image and political prospects among the fastgrowing latino community. Cain, one of the houses most vocal opponents of immigration king, one of the houses the most vocal opponents made these comments. Host the Washington Post points out the house of the liberating a series of smaller scale immigration proposals right now. We would like to hear from you. What should the republicans message be on immigration . House Speaker John Boehner address the comments yesterday. Lets take a listen to the House Speaker. [video clip] i want i want to be clear. No place in this debate for hateful or ignorant comments from elected officials. Earlier this week, representative steve king made comments that were, i think, deeply offensive and wrong. Said does not reflect the values of the American People or the Republican Party. Our work in a do constructive, open, and respectful way. As i said many times, we can disagree without being disagreeable. Host House Speaker john boehner. Here is the Washington Times headline. Host lets take a listen to steve king defending his comments. [video clip] just a moment. Representative steve king did talk about yesterday and really defended what he had said in responding to the pushback he had gotten. We mentioned other newspaper outlet had called used headlines like this. Denounces whatr he called ignorant comments on immigration. Here is steve king of iowa. [video clip] no nation like the United States of america can continue to be a strong nation if we are going to judge people because they disagree with our agenda rather than the content of the statement. We have to be critical thinkers. We have to be analytical. He should understand fax from from emotion. T lets pull together and understand that we do have compassion. We do have compassion for every deserves dignity. We need to treat them with that warmth and love that the American People always have, just like the korean war veterans did when they gave themselves for a country they never knew and a people they never met. But we must not sacrifice the altar ofaw on the political expediency. Host what do you think the gop message should be on immigration . Speed it is our first call from mclean, virginia. Caller good morning. Thank you for cspan. Host thank you for calling. Caller listen, this whole controversy is very, very, very, very sad. First of all, i think they are racist and he should resign. Regards to thes immigration bill. ,f they dont pass this bill truly, truly, truly, truly, it is cutting the throats of the Republican Party as far as i am concerned. Mainly because, what are the cook alternatives . The alternatives of breaking up this bill and all this stuff. It is nonsense. Guess what fills the void . Is nonsensehe void and controversy like stephen king, and that becomes the overarching response. My other comment i would like to make is two comments. Yes, the democrats will benefit in the short term. But in the longterm republicans republicans will have a fighting chance because the Hispanic Community at large is largely conservative. He just hate being hated. What i would like this ignorant congressmen to point out to me is, how he believes that a drug valedictorianes a . What does the dream act and the passage of the dream act and the young people who came here unbeknownst to them they may have come across the border. How are they drug dealers . Is the gray area he is not clarifying. He is lumping them all together. It is very sad. It does not play well or bode well for our party. D. C. ,pretty close to northern virginia. You are a republican. Caller yes. Host lets take a look at what the congressman from your state had to say about this. House majority leader eric cantor called mr. Kings remarks inexcusable host lets go to rose from harrisburg, pennsylvania. Republican. Caller yes. Im rose. I would like to say that i no longer wish to be a part of the republican nor the Democratic Party. I just recently became a republican, but i am ashamed of the party, the way they treat minorities, that statement that came made was ridiculous. Less, the way they treated the coultn saga and the ann er, ridiculous statement, talking about how little you. A child was killed. Host when did you become a republican . Caller not even a year ago. Host why . Caller im related to them more strongly because i am really religious and their standards were like more to what i believe in. I am really ashamed of the party. I really dont wish to be a part or of the democratic or the Republican Party. I think i would rather just be an independent. And go with the flow. Host here is what fred tweets in. Ohio. Duane from we are taking republican calls only this morning. Caller i am a conservative republican, and i believe in the approach tovatives piecemeal Immigration Reform as opposed to the blanket comprehensive approach by the senate which includes a lot of very, very bad things i think for the future of america. In. Sexual lovers to come cardsted access to green by anybody who makes it across the border. I respect representative came. In the pet i respect representative king. In the past he always had constructive comments. The democrats are never any of their left wing loonies for any commented that they might make that are kind of outrageous. So, the republicans have the last chance in 2014 to be able to get ready to capture the white house in 2016. If they lose the house, we are really doomed to a oneparty system. Host pensacola, florida. Goahead. Caller yes. Here. Host you are on the air. Caller i would just like to make the comment that the republicans, they tried to stand up and then they mess up every time. They open their mouths and say things they shouldnt say. They should think with their minds instead of talking so much. Host you are a republican . Caller pardon . Host you are a republican . Caller yes, i am. Host joann. Maryland. Caller thank you for letting me come on. I have been a republican all my life and i am 59 now, and for a couple of years i was a little disappointed in what the republicans did because but but i thank god for them now because if it was not for them standing up for obama, we would have no hope. But as far as immigration, i think the senate has it a little bit wrong. And i am glad they did not just take that bill. For one thing, theres not agents. Ce i think they should close the border. And then when it comes to the ice agents, i think their hands are tied. I am glad the republicans are taking their time and trying to come up with their own bill. The problem is, sometimes that one republican will say everybodyand then believes the whole party feels that way. I think they are misjudged in a lot of ways. But i am glad they are taking their time. Said thatime they they would close the border and then later take care of the problem when reagan was in, and nothing happened. Afraid ofittle bit what the democrats will do if we just take the whole bill. Host ok. Gina. Picayune, mississippi. Republican. Go ahead. Caller i just wanted to say wasntes, maybe that exactly nice what he said. And of course, not true about all Illegal Immigrants coming over. But we also have to remember that they are breaking the law. They are breaking a law just like from the goals in the criminals in the United States. So i want to know why do we have to cater to them all of a sudden . That is really all i have to say. I am than the fact that just totally disappointed the entire country and what is going on in our country. It has almost turned into being a circus. And if we all dont pull together and get back on the right track, it is going to be a third world world country in a few years. Thank you. Host are you concerned about the tone that the gop is putting forth . When you see headlines like this one in Time Magazine , is the opinion piece saying the republicans have a steve king problem. Do you think . Ill are what i said. It seems it is all a big mess. The democrats do nothing but blame everything that goes on now with the republicans, even though they are the ones in charge, and the republicans, they just seem to be so nervous about just being constantly blamed for everything. They are just saying all kinds of crazy things, too. The country is in a horrible mess. It is horrible. Racism is bad. Old, and when i was a senior in high school is when the schools were integrated and we had no problems. I thought we had moved so far in this country. I didnt feel like i was a racist. I feel like you should be judged more on how you act and how you portray yourself rather than the color of your skin. Host here is how Time Magazine looks at the story. It says host this is the opinion piece in Time Magazine. What do you think of the remarks and the aftermath and the pushback. What should the message be . Headline fromthe the Washington Times where congressman king says he speaks the truth on illegals. Jack. Michigan. Republican. Caller hi, how are you . Former immigration agent. The whole thing is a mess anyway. I think the message for the party should be, seal the borders, give these folks 90 days to get their affairs in and then deal out with the immigration issue that way. Listen tog up and comments. Host jack. Caller yes . Host that is your opinion about what the laws should be, how you would like to see the law carried out . What is your thought on the message that republicans should have . Well i dont know. I think the American People in general are really confused about all of this immigration issue, to be sure. Undiluted and so confused, who knows . I think the whole thing is just people motivated, it is all political. The whole thing is cloudy. It is all ridiculous frankly. Page story oft the Washington Times nominee gets hearing despite allegations. Host another story in the news. Rick, newport, north carolina. Republican. Caller yes, good morning. Weve got laws on the books. Why dont we enforce them . No, instead of enforcing laws we just say am a we passed a law to get elect it. We got elected. Now lets just disregarded. Now we come into the same problem. We will make a loop newlog. You are here illegally. We ought to do what eisenhower did. Round them up and send them back. If you dont like what is going on in your country, and you want to escape, start a riot down there like they do in in egypt and every other place. Change it. Dont come over and tried to destroy another country. Concerned that some of the articles pointed out Republican Leaders are concerned that message might be turned latinos from voting for republican candidates . Caller if they are here illegally, they have no right to vote. Host but people who are here legally, perhaps born of the country but as latinos identify with people who share the same ethnicity. Caller well, i dont care. I dont care what they think. Speak your mind. Let everybody know how exactly you feel. And stand up. S host here is what vivian says it seems like a groundswell of ignorant comments to me. Then we see bills comment he writes that the gop message on immigration should be closed the border first. I say this with surveys showing 60 of adults saying so. George. Tampa, florida. Republicans. Caller well, i dont know how much longer i will be a republican when i listened to some of the stuff coming out of the folks in washington. I find it interesting and rather silly that we have people calling up and talking about how long ago we did the same exact thing, but we did not follow through. Most people dont seem to remember that it was a republican president at the time we let the amnesty go through and into anything about it. Now, we can have our cake and eat it, too, and you can have people up in washing washington talking inflammatory stuff and expect the rest of mainstream america to really Pay Attention to what you are saying. Seriously. You need to slow the rhetoric down and actually get to work. Everybody wants democrats wanted to get to work, republicans am the independents want you to get to work. Thank you. Speaker nancyouse pelosi, now leader of democrats in the house, as comment that on immigration has commented on immigration and what Immigration Reform might mean for the white house. Here is an ap story. Host as we talked about with some of the callers, republicans in the house when a piecemeal approach. As go to gym in new castle, delaware. We are asking republicans this morning what the gop message should be on immigration. Colorcode i think messagei think the gop should be the rule of law and enforcement of law. This administration has refused to enforce not only this law but many laws in this country. It is disgraceful. We have to get back to being a nation of laws and not a nation of just men and their whims. They use it as a wedge issue, as you see in a lot of the polls. Racism, the division among people based on the color of their skin has increased in this country send this president has become chief of the country. And we just have to get back to enforcement of the existing laws. You we go is illegal, and even latinos have an interest in having a nation where we had enforcement of laws. Everything else is just a wedge issue to try to divide us. It is just sad. I bet you more people vote for stephen king in his district than actually by Time Magazine. That is all i have to say. Host spring, texas. Good morning. Go ahead. Caller i think the message the republicans should send to the latino community, if you are going to vote for democrats, you are going to have a socialist government sooner or later because the Democratic Party has now become neosocialists in the european 18thcentury european style. Socialism as a governmental philosophy always, always fails. It fails the cost theialis micromanage because the micromanage every activity. I think the people who left this country left their country who have come to the United States have come for freedom and opportunity and not the micromanagement by the neo socialist government like a democrat now are offering to theirho will listen message. And i think the republican message needs to be freed him freedom, with a structure by the government but not by control. Host darrell. Gainesville, florida. I am a republican, like i said, for almost 60 years. And i have come through the es ofrent eras and chang this country. And i participate in the political process. However, being a social logical sociological student over the years i came to realize that the Republican Party is like, the new ku klux klan. The hood is no longer they wear the thatds but they portray as being the guy wh changesto see social and aggressiveness through work and through education but at the same time the actions say that higher the echelon, the part of the social that is to stay the higher part of the social stratification and we get there by having a low minimum wage, getting the cheaper workers of the world to come to this country. They dont care how they get there. They say they do. They have no real interest because they would shut the borders down. They could stop all of that. When they need the drugs to stop coming in the country like they did in 1972 when carter said shut it down, everything came to a halt. If you want to stay in the top, the cane does not bring the peasant up to the top king does not bring the peasant up. You can be the surf. Host lets take a listen to what started this discussion. Representative steve king made comments to the online news site news max hurray cohere is what he said that generated some controversy new site news max. Here is what he said. Host we ask for your response to the comments and the larger question this morning of what the republican message should be on immigration. It has been pushed back by leaders of the Republican Party and lots of discussion in recent months about what the republican message and approach to Immigration Reform should be. If you are republican, you can call us at host here is what berry tweets in the statement is more true than false. Why is he wrong for talking about it . I live near the drug highways of interstate 40 and interstate 35. Timesman Bob Goodlatte said the comments were congressman Bob Goodlatte said the comments were not helpful. The story in political. The House Judiciary Committee chairman joined several colleagues in denouncing the controversial comments, calling them inappropriate with an interview with telemundo set to air sunday. We see some republicans coming out and talking about their approach to Immigration Reform. Is leading goodlatte legislation and his committee, the Judiciary Committee, a piecemeal approach to