Rep. Steve King (R-IA) was right: illegal alien minors have, in fact,
been used to smuggle large volumes of illicit drugs into the United States of
America on behalf of Mexican drug cartels.
Journalist Lorne Matalon reported for Fronteras in
mid-December 2013 that U.S. authorities arrested six Mexican
nationals–including four minors–attempting to carry marijuana across the
border.
“U.S. Border Patrol agents have arrested six
Mexicans with more than 300 pounds of marijuana,” Matalon wrote on Dec. 10,
2013. “Four of the six were juveniles including two 17-year-olds, a
16-year-old and a 12-year-old boy. The arrests took place near a U.S. Border
Patrol checkpoint south of Marfa, Texas, on the road that links Ojinaga,
Chihuahua, with borderland Texas.”
Matalon reported that Border Patrol agents say the
group carried the marijuana on their backs and attempted to walk around a
checkpoint at which drug sniffing dogs were stationed.
Reportedly, the 12-year-old boy carried the
heaviest load of 80 pounds of marijuana. If this sounds very familiar,
it is no accident. Because Rep. King was lambasted from the Obama
Administration — and even his own Speaker and Majority Leader – for
merely pointing out that this was happening.
In an interview with NewsMax published
in mid-July, Rep. King–a fierce opponent against granting amnesty to illegal
aliens–made the following statement:
“Some of them are valedictorians — and their
parents brought them in,” King argued. “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 who weigh 130 pounds — and they’ve got calves the size of
cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert,”
King added in the interview. “Those people would be legalized with the same
act.”
The pro-amnesty RINOs went ballistic. House
Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), a lawmaker pushing a bill called the KIDS
Act which would grant amnesty to illegal alien youths,
rushed in to attack King. “I strongly disagree with his characterization of the
children of immigrants and find the comments inexcusable,” Cantor said
at the time.
Less than an hour later, House Speaker John Boehner
seconded Cantor’s criticisms. “There can be honest disagreements about
policy without using hateful language,” Boehner said in a statement.
“Everyone needs to remember that.”
According to Fox News, Boehner
went even further at a later press conference, attacking King’s character as a
leader. “I want to be clear. There’s no place in this debate for hateful or
ignorant comments from elected officials,” Boehner said. ”What
(King) said does not reflect the values of the American people or the
Republican Party, and we all need to do our work in a constructive, open
and respectful way.”
White House spokesman Jay Carney also criticized
King: “I think a number of people have pointed out that they were offensive,” Carney said in a comment to reporters
aboard Air Force One. “They certainly don’t help any efforts by Republicans to
improve their standing among Hispanic Americans, I would assume.”
In their zeal to pander to Hispanic and blast King,
Cantor, Boehner and Carney ignored that fact that King’s statements were
factually accurate — and easily provable. Media outlets, from the Christian Science Monitor to local news outlets in San Diego to the Associated Press to Fox News Latino, have confirmed in their
reporting what King said: illegal alien minors have been used by drug
cartels to smuggle drugs into the United States. A simple Google search
from any of them would have confirmed that fact.
The media also hammered King relentlessly for his
truth-telling. The Dallas Morning News was one of the media
outlets that attacked King over the remarks. It issued a searing editorial ripping
King for the comments, but on Dec. 27, in response to a Washington Times article regarding
the news that Matalon broke in Fronteras, Dallas Morning News editorial
writer Rodger Jones argued that, in light of the recent news, his
paper should consider issuing a formal apology to
King for the attack:
In view of this, do we here at The News have a
responsibility to amend the record? This incident shows that youthful drug
mules remain at work on the border, despite our assertion that the notion is
based in stereotypes. It comes down to the math. Would we claim that King’s
100-1 ratio is merely way wide of the mark? If we went there, wouldn’t we be
obligated to find some valedictorians to prove it?
Jones added that he personally does support open
borders policies but that such policies should only be advanced with facts:
“Don’t get me wrong: I’m more an open-borders guy than anything else, but when
a hard-liner on immigration like King asserts something strong, it’s not enough
to ridicule and insult and simply pronounce him wrong,” Jones wrote. “The
Border Patrol will have a long memory on this issue, and every border drug bust
involving kids will be a handy reminder at the agency’s disposal.”
Not one person who attacked King incorrectly, as
Breitbart News noted at the time and as the Dallas Morning News’
Jones and others now admit, has apologized for their inaccuracies. Nonetheless,
King soldiers on against amnesty. “My critics were either woefully
uninformed or deliberately misinformed the public for the purpose of advancing
their amnesty agenda.”
We salute Steve King and stand with him in the
coming fight to defeat amnesty this year.
To demand that Boehner and Cantor APOLOGIZE for the
disgraceful, race-baiting attacks on the patriot King, you can contact them
here: House
Speaker John Boehner (R-OH): FACEBOOK, TWITTER, EMAIL (use zip 45069 + 4057),
Phone: 202-225-6205
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA): FACEBOOK, TWITTER, EMAIL, Phone: 202-225-2815
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA): FACEBOOK, TWITTER, EMAIL, Phone: 202-225-2815
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