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On the recordJuly 23, 2013
What I said is that, for every valedictorian, there are 100 for every valedictorian that are smuggling drugs into the United States.
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Steve King
Republican · Iowa

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King defends his statement about the prevalence of drug smuggling among undocumented immigrants compared to valedictorians.

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