Republican under fire for supporting Wilders

washington - US Republican Steve King, congressman for the state of Iowa, is under fire at home after he expressed on Twitter his support for Geert Wilders.

' Wilders understands our culture and demography is the best. We can not recover our culture, with babies of another, '' King said as he retweette a message about the riots in Rotterdam. The tweet was then retweeted King again by the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke.

King is a fierce opponent of the granting of US citizenship by birth. All babies born in the US currently have US citizenship, even if their parents are residing illegally in the country.

Include Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton responded to the message of King. She called his tweet painful. ' The congressman sees clearly not all children as our children. Painful and ironic, certainly on this Jewish holiday Purim. 'Almost 3,500 people responded to the tweet about Wilders. ' Delete your account,' some asked King. Others were precisely the congressman once.