Rick “Google Me” Santorum is a hateful, bigoted hypocrite. He has repeatedly demonstrated his distain for civil rights, gay rights, women’s rights and human rights. Yesterday Santorum slipped in himself, displaying his hypocrisy with an extreme contradiction.

Rick Santorum regularly touts the importance of families on the campaign trail, but during a town hall event in New Hampshire this afternoon, the former Pennsylvania senator argued that he would break up immigrant families who entered the country illegally. “It happens every day, we take fathers and mothers out of their families if they break the law and [undocumented immigrants] shouldn’t be treated any better than American citizens who break the law and being separated from their families,” he explained, before noting that his grandfather also left his family in Italy in order to enter the United States legally:

SANTORUM: My grandfather made sacrifices. He lived in this country five years without his family…So when I hear people say, ‘well, people have lived here a long time, and they’ve played by the rules and we don’t want to separate families.’ Well, my grandfather separated from his family. Why? Because America was worth it.