A small group of teenage DREAM activists have crackpot GOP Rep. Steve King wetting his Sansabelts.
King, a long-time immigration hardliner, last week sponsored an effort to cut funding for President Obama’s deferred action program, which grants deportation reprieves to DREAMers. In response, United We Dream, an undocumented youth activist group, organized a protest at the Iowa congressman’s office this morning. Two dozen or so demonstrators showed up at King’s office to voice their displeasure with him, organizers said. They arrived wearing caps and gowns (photo here) to reinforce their message that they want to pursue higher education and careers in the U.S. But the real story quickly became about how King framed the protest on Twitter.
Last year King infamously referred to immigrants as dogs, saying that America should only be accepting the “pick of the litter” and not the lazy dogs “sleeping in the corner.”