http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2013/07/steve-king-and-the-case-of-the-canteloupe-calves.html
In several interviews since, he has defended those remarks by returning, again and again, to the bodies of young immigrants, in a way that veers on the odd. To an Iowa radio station (via the Washington Post):
We have people that are mules, that are drug mules, that are hauling drugs across the border and you can tell by their physical characteristics what they’ve been doing for months.
And on Thursday, on the floor of Congress:
Increasingly, the higher value drugs—heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine in some form or another—are being strapped to the bodies—sometimes of young girls, teen-age girls.
Physical characteristics, girls wrapped in straps—King speaks as though he thinks that if he could just convey the figures and shapes of these young people, their sheer physicality, others would recoil, just as he does, at the idea of letting them be American. What he asks is not that we listen to their stories, or add up their accomplishments, or read the history of this country, but just that we look at them, like he does. At their legs, arms—anywhere, it would seem, but in their eyes, where he’d have to acknowledge their individuality.
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