Some of the animals that had been exposed to infected pigs died or were killed and were probably replaced by uninfected immigrant dogs.
He befriends Sunny, an Afghan immigrant hot dog vendor, whose son is a would-be rapper.
It's a distinct style of preparation, which crystallized around 1940 among Providence's Greek immigrant hot dog vendors and then spread through the state.
"Steve King has been offensive and embarrassing to our district," he said, rattling off controversial remarks King has made about immigrants and dog fighting and his defense of Todd Akin, the Missouri Republican U.S. Senate candidate who said women have biological defenses against pregnancy from "legitimate rape".
One Republican re-elected this year was Representative Steve King of Iowa, a virulent immigration-basher who once likened immigrants to dogs.
Although it was interspersed with unrelated floor speeches from other members on jobs and Obamacare, the outcry from the Hispanic caucus nonetheless served as a reflection of a line crossed -- even from King, a noted immigration hardliner who once likened immigrants to dogs.
He has compared immigrants to dogs and has described illegal immigration as both a "slow-motion terrorist attack" and a "slow-motion holocaust".
"Compromise" and "path to citizenship" remain dirty words to Republicans like Representative Steve King of Iowa, who has likened immigrants to dogs and livestock.
Mr. King has compiled a record of incendiary statements during his time in Congress, including comparing illegal immigrants to dogs and likening Capitol Hill maintenance workers to "Stasi troops" after they were ordered to install environmentally friendly light bulbs.
She told me that a colleague had recently met with Marine Le Pen, of France's Front National, and that over the summer she had spoken to various American Republicans, including the Iowa congressman Steve King, who has compared immigrants to dogs and suggested building an electric fence on the U.S. border with Mexico.
