“For every [young illegal immigrant] who becomes a valedictorian, there’s 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.”

—Iowa Republican congressman Steve King, in an interview with conservative website Newsmax.

King also argued that the U.S. should not grant citizenship to millions of Latinos living in the U.S. because the new citizens would then drive up the cost of low-wage labor.