Thread: Rep. Steve King: Young people smuggling drugs across border ‘every night’

By David Sherfinski

The Washington Times
7/25/2013

Mr. Boehner, Ohio Republican, called Mr. King’s previous comments “deeply offensive and wrong.”

Rep. Steve King isn’t backing down.

Mere hours after House Speaker John A. Boehner condemned Mr. King’s recent remarks that young illegal immigrants are often drug smugglers, the Iowa Republican and staunch opponent of immigration reform delivered a stem-winding speech on the House floor Thursday to hammer home his point.

Mr. King has defended his recent statement that for every valedictorian who comes into the country — cases eagerly highlighted by legalization advocates — there are 100 more young illegal immigrants who have “calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert.”

Mr. Boehner said Thursday the remarks make the already-precarious prospects of passing immigration reform more difficult, but Mr. King said Thursday he was merely speaking the truth.

“I can tell you that in Mexico they are recruiting kids to be drug smugglers between the ages of 11 and 18,” Mr. King said Thursday afternoon. “They have arrested, and I believe incarcerated … over 800 per year over the last couple of years at that ratio of those who are kids who are smuggling drugs into the United States.”

“Every night, some come across the border, smuggling drugs across the border — increasingly the higher-value drugs: heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine in some form or another are being strapped to the bodies sometimes of young girls, teenage girls,” he continued. “The media’s replete with this. Anybody that reads the papers should know, especially those that live on the border, should know that there are many, many young people coming across the border unlawfully who are smuggling drugs into the United States.”

On Thursday morning, Mr. Boehner, Ohio Republican, called Mr. King’s previous comments “deeply offensive and wrong.”

“What he said does not reflect the values of the American people or the Republican Party,” the speaker said at his weekly news conference, volunteering a criticism of Mr. King before even being asked. “We all need to do our work in a constructive, open and respectful way. As I’ve said many times, we can disagree without being disagreeable.”

But Mr. King’s “cantaloupe” remark has been universally denounced, and has also dominated headlines in recent days as the House continues its piecemeal approach on immigration reform.

House Majority Leader Eric I. Cantor, Virginia Republican, who called Mr. King’s remarks “inexcusable,” and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, Virginia Republican, are working on a measure that would deal with the status of so-called “Dreamers,” the nickname for illegal immigrants who were brought into the country as minors by their parents.

They’re named after the Dream Act, a bill from several years ago that did not pass Congress that would offer legal status for such immigrants if they met certain conditions. Last year, President Obama issued a directive saying that illegal immigrants between the ages of 16 and 30 that also met other conditions would not be deported.

In protest, some young people brought cantaloupes to Mr. King’s office Thursday.

A bill that would beef up security on the southern border and create a path to citizenship for the 11 million illegal immigrants currently in the country passed the Senate last month, but the House has taken a slower, more step-by-step approach.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, said Thursday she does not believe immigration reform is dead, and that she remains hopeful.

“We have to find a way. And the speaker has talked about bringing bills together to the floor and — whatever it is, whatever the path is, we have to find a path to go to conference, to come up with a bill that the president will sign, that we can all support in a bipartisan way, and recognize that that will have some unease,” she said. “[T]here are some poison pills. But they’re not lethal. And we can live with that.”

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Defending Rep. Steve King to the Speaker of the House

If the Republican Party wishes to keep its majority in the House and expand its membership in the Senate, and if you want to keep your job as Speaker of the House of Representatives -- the People's House -- you had better start working for the citizens of this Republic and not siding with the foreign invaders and their enablers on the Left. Otherwise, the Republican Party will find itself on the ash heap of history -- right there along side the Whig Party.

Of course the Mexican drug cartels are using minors to smuggle drugs across the border! When we catch minors committing serious crimes we treat them differently than we do adults. Duh! Do you think that the Mexican drug cartels don't know this? Mexican drug cartels operating in our cities also use young illegals (and/or the US-born children of illegal aliens) to sell drugs and participate in assassinations for this very same reason -- they are "too young" to be tried as adults. Anyone who claims otherwise is deaf, dumb and blind, in denial, or is simply lying. Mr. Speaker, which category do you fall in?

I am unable to understand your anti-American, anti-Constitution attitude toward the foreign invasion coming mostly from Mexico -- yes, that is exactly what we are talking about -- foreign invaders who entered by stealth for the purpose of acquiring plunder. Some of whom are humping WMD (meth, heroin, cocaine) into this country to poison OUR children. Invaders you are supposed to protect the states from and whom you are supposed to repel -- not reward with amnesty and a pathway to US citizenship!

If the Republican Party wishes to keep its majority in the House and expand its membership in the Senate, and if you want to keep your job as Speaker of the House of Representatives -- the People's House -- you had better start working for the citizens of this Republic and not siding with the foreign invaders and their enablers on the Left. Otherwise, the Republican Party will find itself on the ash heap of history -- right there along side the Whig Party.

That isn't an empty threat, it is a fact of life! Don't believe me? Just look at what serial amnesties and pathways to citizenship have done to the Golden State -- it turned Reagan Country into the bankrupt Peoples' Republic of Mexifornia where Republicans are an endangered species holding ZERO statewide offices in less than 25 years.

If you ignore this Cassandra's warnings, and allow any form of amnesty for foreign invaders, young or old, to come to the floor of the House, you will have single-handedly destroyed this once great Republic in favor of cheap, foreign labor for greed-bag corporatists and votes for your Democrat opponents.

Mrs. Janet Conroy

PS: Put that snooping NSA to some good use for the American people for a change by tasking them with finding and identifying illegal foreign invaders and their trafficking organizations to the FBI for arrest, incarceration and final deportation -- after they have served 5-10 at hard labor in the federal pen.

Dreams and nightmares: Steve King is right again