By TAL KOPAN | 4/18/14 12:03 PM EDT
POLITICO


King is known for his controversial remarks on illegal immigration. | M.Scott Mahaskey/POLITICO

Rep. Steve King is criticizing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for praising an undocumented teen that questioned her at an event, saying Clinton should have told the young woman to follow the law.

“#Hillary calls immigration law breaker ‘incredibly brave.’ Should have said, ‘Get right with the law.’ … Then come back,” King tweeted early Friday morning.

King was referring to an event Clinton held Thursday in conjunction with her family’s foundation and No Ceilings, during which a 19-year-old woman stood up and tearfully announced herself as an undocumented immigrant facing her own ceilings. Clinton called the teen brave and advocated for the immigration reform legislation passed by the Senate last year as well as a pathway to citizenship.

The Iowa Republican is known for his controversial remarks on illegal immigration: Last summer, he referred to undocumented immigrants as drug smugglers with “calves the size of cantaloupes,” rather than valedictorians, comments he has continued to stand behind.

He has been a vocal member of House Republicans who have stood strongly against the immigration reform legislation that cleared the Senate as well as a critic of pathways to citizenship for so-called DREAMers, undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children, like the one at the Clinton event.

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