Kansas lawmaker apologizes for remarks Fri Mar 18
"It looks like to me if shooting these immigrating feral hogs works, maybe we have found (a solution) to our illegal immigration problem,” The Daily Mail quoted Kansas state legislator Virgil Peck as saying on Tuesday. (Source)
On Monday, during a committee meeting to monitor the state's wild hogs' growing population, Peck said, “If shooting these immigrating feral hogs works, maybe we have found a (solution) to our illegal immigration problem.” Following the meeting, Kansas State Senator Sam Brownback denounced the remarks as being “completely inappropriate.” Under intense pressure, Peck later said he was joking and that he "was just speaking like a southeast Kansas person." “My statements were regrettable. Please accept my apology,” Virgil Peck said in a signed statement on Thursday.