In order to add some reality to balance the feel-good propaganda surrounding the rush to provide tax funded education benefits to illegal immigrants under so called DREAM Act legislation, Iowa Congressman Steve King made some frank but entirely appropriate comments about eligibility . Of course the usual Republican establishment types Speaker John Boehner and whip Eric Cantor are clucking about it.
Proponents of DREAM act largess want to imply that opposition to any aspect of the beneficence they want to bestow at taxpayer expense is simply an effort to deny Hispanic youths any chance at US educational opportunities. As if they are valedictorians and in any case owed something for already being here illegally.
According to the memo from GOPUSA,
King said in an interview last week with Newsmax a large number of immigrants brought into the United States illegally as children were smuggling drugs into the country.
“Some of them are valedictorians, and their parents brought them in,” King said. “It wasn’t their fault. It’s true in some cases, but they aren’t all valedictorians. They weren’t all brought in by their parents.”
“For everyone who’s a valedictorian, there’s another 100 out there that weigh 130 pounds and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert,” King said. “Those people would be legalized with the same act.”
Later in an interview with Radio Iowa King said
“[If] those who advocate for the DREAM Act, if they choose to characterize this about valedictorians, I gave them a different image that we need to be thinking about because we just simply can’t be passing legislation looking only at one component of what would be millions of people.”
There is nothing unreasonable in King’s comments. They are a challenge to the soft-headed thinking of Congressman always trying to buy votes with other peoples money. Rather than attack the messenger why don’t King’s critics respond to the specifics? R Mall
