Robert Erickson, the pseudonym for the young man who became an overnight YouTube sensation after rallying Tea Partiers to shout “Columbus Go Home!” at a Minnesota anti-immigration event last week, will allegedly be holding a press conference to announce that he’s deporting himself.

That’s according to a Twitter page that was supposedly created by Erickson.

If true, the move will only build upon the tongue-in-cheek speech that Erickson gave as an orator at the Tea Party rally, that “European immigrants are responsible for the most violent and heinous crimes in the history of the world!”

Here’s the original video:

The press conference may also be taking place at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center, or, so reads a tweet by the individual claiming to be Erickson. Stay tuned.

“Who are you calling an immigrant, Pilgrim?”

Right-leaning activists held an anti-immigration rally in Minnesota over the weekend, but thanks to some creative  Jiu-Jitsu by one speaker, the event took an about-face, without supporters realizing it.

By the end of his speech, a young man going by the moniker “Robert Erickson" gets the tea-partiers to yell a rallying cry of “Columbus Go Home!” over and over again.

Speech nuggets, with the loud crowd cheering throughout the entire event:

All across America they’re contributing to the flood of our job market, making it harder for Americans to find jobs. We’ll I’m fed up and its time to let our politicians know that enough is enough, and we’re not going to take it anymore.”

 

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We need tougher immigration laws to make sure we send these people back where they came from.

 

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It’s no secret that with the invasion of immigrants comes waves of crime. A secret involving massive theft, and murder, and bringing  diseases like small pox, which is responsible for the death of millions of Americans. These aren’t new problems though. They’ve been going on for hundreds of years. They continue to this day. It’s time for us to say enough is enough. Are you with me?

 

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All right. Let’s send these European immigrants back where they came from! I don’t care if they’re Irish, English, or Norwegian. European immigrants are responsible for the most violent and heinous crimes in the history of the world!

 

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Columbus go home! Columbus go home!

We knew it was coming. Throughout last year, there were various reports that Fox News had an interest in promoting a conservative version of the Daily Show. Last June, MediaBistro.com blogged that conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham was rumored to be hosting the pilot. The tipster revealing the secret pilot described it as a "terrible rip off the Daily Show" and that the "writers and producers should be embarrassed to show this one to Roger [Ailes]."