Steve King: Immigrants Have Killed More People Than 9/11 Terrorists

[The Straight Story]

In the latest did-you-hear-what-Steve-King-said-about-immigration news, the Iowa Republican has a rough estimate of how many Americans have been killed by illegal immigrants.

As reported first by the Des Moines Register, King told a crowd in Omaha, Neb., on Sept. 13 that thousands of Americans, “multiples of the victims of Sept. 11,” have been killed by illegal immigrants.

“Now that hits home, doesn’t it?” King asked the crowd. “Three thousand times something.”

King continued: “Three thousand times something, three thousand times X, is the magnitude of individual tragedies here in America.”

King said the estimate came from former immigration agent Mike Cutler during a congressional hearing, when King asked Cutler, “What’s the price Americans are paying for an open-door policy?”

http://blogs.rollcall.com/218/steve-king-immigrants-have-killed-more-people-than-9-11-terrorists/

[Jefferson23]

1. Travesty this man is still in office.

Leave the US, King.

[The Magistrate]

2. Damn, Sir --- How Many Americans Have Been Killed By Native Born Citizens?

Maybe we should do something about the problems we face from people born here....

[warrior1]

3. beat me to it

[Comrade Grumpy]

4. This man is an embarrassment to the good people of northwest Iowa.

Or is he a reflection?

[1-Old-Man]

5. So have 15-year-old-boys with easily acquired guns.

But somehow that's OK.

[The Straight Story]

7. Well, we could apply the same ideals. If less than 1% of illegal immigrants harm others

We need to look at all such immigrants as suspect and pass more laws to prevent them doing so and steam the tide of them flooding our streets.

Judge them all based on the very few. Seems legit as a principle on other topics.

[BlueToTheBone]

6. Is he talking about the genocide of the

First People? If so, that is truth.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

8. Has the twit from Iowa considered that the state name itself comes from the

indigenous peoples (Sioux) that lived in the region?

How many of the original inhabitants (First nations?) have been murdered, raped, marginalized, indentured relocated and relocated again by European immigrants?

With that kind of omission and outright ignorance King is probably never going to be called by MENSA.

[indepat]

9. Does Rep. Steve King realize more people are killed by guns every few months than were killed

by 9-11 terraists?