ST LOUIS (LALATE) – Republican Kansas State Rep. Virgil Peck’s remarks about illegal aliens is drawing national criticism. Virgil Peck’s comments were followed by a full apology late Tuesday.

Peck’s remarks were “Looks like to me, if shooting these immigrating feral hogs works, maybe we have found a [solution] to our illegal immigration problem”. When asked to apologize, Peck then said “I was just speaking like a southeast Kansas person.”

Late today, he issued the following apology: “My statements yesterday were regrettable. Please accept my apology.” Critics claim he only issued the apology because of the outrage he was drawing. Gov. Sam Brownback called the remarks “completely inappropriate.”

Texas congressman Charlie Gonzalez issued a statement to news today that Peck’s “[s]peaking of human beings like animals and implying gun violence as an acceptable course of action crosses a line that his own party and his own peers should not tolerate”

Others from South Kansas were furious about the remark. Browback added “I’m from southeast Kansas.. I disagree with that statement.” Rep. Bob Grant told news that “I have no intention of letting Representative Peck brand me with his own extremist views just because I live in the same region.”

The League of United Latin American Citizens has asked for Peck’s resignation. In a statement to news, LULAC’s national president Margaret Moran said “Representative Peck’s comments about shooting immigrants and likening them to hogs are an outrageous dehumanization of hardworking Kansas residents”.