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GOP's Steve King on DREAMers: For every valedictorian, there are 100 drug smugglers

One day after refusing to apologize for comparing immigrants to dogs, Iowa Congressman Steve King is using incendiary rhetoric to again speak out against undoc

One day after refusing to apologize for comparing immigrants to dogs, Iowa Congressman Steve King is using incendiary rhetoric to again speak out against undocumented immigrants.In an interview last Thursday with Newsmax, King argued that for every one undocumented child who contributed to society, there were hundreds who were actually criminals:

"There are kids that were brought into this country by their parents unknowing they were breaking the law. And they will say to me and others who defend the rule of law, 'We have to do something about the 11 million. Some of them are valedictorians.' Well, my answer to that is...it's true in some cases, but they aren't all valedictorians. They weren't all brought in by their parents. For every one who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who 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."

King also said during the interview that there were people in his state who were advocating for immigration reform because they depended upon cheap, illegal labor. "What they really, of course, mean is amnesty," he said, "and then they will tell me, 'I need someone to gather my eggs,' or 'I need someone to harvest the hogs, I need somebody to milk my cows.'"He continued, "These are arguments that get weighed in with all of this, but there are many businesses in the state and in the country that were developed and evolved into the business they are today because of the anticipation of having cheap, illegal labor standing there ready to take those jobs."This is not the first time King has shown public disdain for undocumented immigrants. Last month, he tweeted about "brazen self professed illegal aliens" at his Washington, D.C., office and, earlier this year, advocated for an electrified fence along the border between the U.S. and Mexico.