Grijalva posted a video compilation of Saucedo Mercer’s comments on his campaign’s Facebook page Tuesday morning.

Saucedo Mercer “claims that ‘Middle Easterners’ are just here to hurt us, that they’re trying to blend in as Mexicans and leaving ‘prayer rugs and copies of the Koran’ in the desert, and that she doesn’t want them here ‘legally or illegally,’” Grijalva said on Facebook.

tucson.com

August 29, 2012

Fuller quote from borderfactcheck.tumblr.com

Just last year… if I remember correctly, there were 25,000 people that they were able to apprehend other than Mexicans. That includes Chinese, Middle Easterners. If you know Middle Easterners, they look Mexican or like a lot of people in South America, and they mix in. … And those people, their only goal in life is to cause harm to the United States. … They have found prayer rugs, they have found copies of the Koran [in the desert], so that tells you this is not just, you know, poor illegals that are trying to come to this country to find work. It’s bigger than that.”

Video:

The Real Gabriela Mercer - We Don’t Want Middle Easterners

The interview itself is apparently 2011. It’s a very stable meme.