Rep.King Cites Flawed Statistics To Suggest Undocs Kill More People Than Died On 9/11

Rep. King Cites Flawed Statistics To Suggest Undocumented Immigrants Kill More People Than Died On 9/11

An anti-immigration congressman, who has compared undocumented immigrants to drug mules with “cantaloupes calves,” dogs, and cattle, used the occasion of a vigil to invoke September 11th and to cite flawed statistics about the number of murders committed by immigrants.

At the “Vigil for Justice” event organized by the anti-immigration organization Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) on Friday, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) said that undocumented immigrants have been arrested for homicide more than 25,000 times between 2004 to 2008. The rally was set to coincide with the trial of a 19-year-old undocumented male who raped and killed a 93-year-old Nebraskan woman, Louise Sollowin. King said:

One day, there was an INS agent testifying. His name is Michael Cutler from New York and I said, ‘How many Americans have died at the hands of those who did get it into the United States illegally?’

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Oh sigh. Obviously, I meant to write 9/11, not 9/1 as in the current subject line that I can't change. ¯\(°_o)/¯ Sorry.

Fixed it for you, Esther.

Thank you so much!! I know I'm a blogger, but I still suck at this technology thing.

He thinks we killed all the Americans that would've attended his rallies. Not our fault just a couple of douch bags follow him around.

I agree with him, his illegal ancestors killed Indians by the millions.