LINDA CHAVEZ: GOP must do more to reject vicious words

It’s hard to know where to begin in responding to Rep. Steve King’s comments on so-called “Dreamers.”

 The Iowa Republican told the conservative news organization News­max that for every valedictorian brought into the U.S. as a child by his or her parents, there are 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. Those people would be legalized with the same act.”

 The Republican leadership has denounced King’s vicious rant. House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor called the comments “inexcusable.” But King didn’t back down.

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