Steve King Stands By Statements

Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, speaks at the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., Thursday, March 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

After a rebuke from Speaker John Boehner, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is standing behind his claim that 99% of DREAMers (undocumented young people who were brought to the US by their parents at a young age) are drug couriers or ‘mules’. “And that comes from being down on the border, spending days and nights down there in multiple trips and time with the Border Patro. It’s not something that I’m making up. This is real.”