Southern Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva responded last week to Iowa Congressman Steve King’s assertion that many of the potential DREAM Act kids are actually drug mules who have “calves the size of cantaloupes” from hauling all that weed across the border:
I appreciate the Speaker, Mr. Cantor and others who have repudiated what Steve King said. I think that’s important. But the point is that this is a pathological habit and a performance on the part of Steve King. He’s done it before. He’s made commentaries as offensive, if not more offensive, on other instances, and it’s been an attitude about seeing immigrants and to some extent, maybe, the Latino community as some sort of threat. And he applies his agenda that way. I think the leadership of the Republican Party should seriously consider removing him from Judiciary. That is the committee from which some sort of movement on immigration reform is going to emanate, and they should put somebody in there from their party who wants to get something done, as opposed to somebody who is in there to effectively sabotage any effort to get immigration reform done.”
New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait sizes up King’s appearance on the House floor last week to defend his accusations about kids smuggling drugs across the border. ICYMI: Former state lawmaker Frank Antenori defended King on last week’s AZ Illustrated Politics and boasted that he, too, once had calves the size of cantaloupes.
This article appears in Jul 25-31, 2013.
May not be the so called dream act kids but there are others that have been caught just in the last couple days and weeks with lots of drugs taped to their bodies trying to get across the border so King is not making this stuff up. Pictures were in the paper and on the news.
The cartels are dragging dead bodies into AZ and letting ius bury them…sorry Raul, no amnesty, because you haven’t, and won’t secure the border. Let’s all boycott S Tucson.
Maybe we should kick out Grijalva if we’re serious about improving the local economy:
“The consequences we can only bring up right now is economic sanctions,” Grijalva said. “We’re asking organizations — civic, religious, labor, Latino, organizations of color — to refrain from using Arizona as a convention site, to refrain from spending their dollars in the state of Arizona until Arizona turns the clock forward instead of backwards and joins the rest of the union.”
Ribbit…ribbit
So as you can see from the above comments, Steve King and those of his ilk, are alive and well right here in Tucson, I mean, Marana, and no doubt, they have brains, as smooth as cantaloupes, no folds, no synapses.