A city council candidate in Kennewick has advanced to the general election on a platform that includes calling for illegal immigrants to be executed if they refuse to leave town.

Loren Nichols collected nearly 400 votes in his ward - that's about 26 percent of Tuesday's primary vote. He'll face the city councilman who also serves as Kennewick's mayor, Steve Young, in the citywide general election this fall.

Nichols says that if illegal immigrants are seen entering the country illegally they should be shot on sight, and he says any that refuse an ultimatum to leave Kennewick they should also face the death penalty.
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