Iowa’s Rep. King: For every valedictorian Dreamer, 100 are “hauling marijuana”

By Sandra Lilley, NBCLatino

Iowa conservative Republican Congressman Steve King said in an interview with Newsmax that for every valedictorian DREAMer who has been brought to this country by his or her family, “…there’s another 100 out there who, they weigh 130 pounds and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert. Those people would be legalized with the same act.”

Latino Rebels wrote on their site that Congressman King should just self-deport.

Congressman Steve King recently introduced a House amendment -which was approved – calling for the elimination of the Administration’s deferred deportation for DREAMers. The amendment is largely symbolic, since there is no chance the Senate will pass it nor a chance the president would sign it into law.

This article was first published in NBCLatino.

Sandra loves being an active part of our “national conversation”, on everything from politics, education and the economy to the latest books and people in the news. Sandra started out in Telemundo-NY as a general assignment reporter and later News Director. She was also a Dayside Managing Editor at MSNBC and a Planning Editor for the NBC Domestic Desk. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Sandra studied history at Brown University, and currently lives in New Jersey with her family. Sandra hopes our site inspires and informs Latinos as they work toward their family’s “American Dream.”