Since
Rep. Steve King says that Central American families have been lured by U.S. policies to "give their daughters birth control pills and send them down a rape path all the way through Mexico, and it's a death path on the death train" to get to the United States, a more observant person than Steve King might wonder what is going on in some parts of Central America that would cause anyone to contemplate taking the "death train" that Steve King warns about.
According to fellow Congressional Three Stooges member Louie Gohmert, the answer is nothing. Those children aren't fleeing from anything, they're all are just filthy liars.
“Texas and the United States is [sic] being invaded and we’re in danger,” Gohmert said, before alleging that most of the unaccompanied minors are lying when they tell border patrol agents that they are escaping gang violence in Central America and have been coached to make such claims. Gohmert said minors end up telling officers that “we were told to say that we were fleeing gang violence.”
After pausing a moment to reflect again on this notion that the United States is facing
existential danger from a bunch of children, I suppose we ought to point out to America's Dumbest Congressman—who was once an actual judge, for some Texas definition of "actual"—that we do have ways of checking these things. All of the children are interviewed to determine what their status is and whether their request for refugee status should be granted; I assure you, if there is a broad movement of filthy liar children who are
not fleeing dangerous or violent situations but just felt like going down the "rape path" slash "death path" slash "death train" on a goddamn lark, we will ferret them out and toss them right back to their insufficiently dangerous or violent towns as Jesus and the Statue of Liberty both intended.
He likened the immigrant “invasion” to D-Day, warning that undocumented immigrants were responsible for over six hundred thousand crimes in Texas over the past five years, including thousands of homicides and sexual assaults.
What is with this guy and D-Day? Do you think he realizes that the invaders were the good guys, on D-Day?
There's your bar, all you prospective new House members who are itching to take Louie Gohmert's title as America's Dumbest Congressman. That's what you're up against. Good luck topping that accomplished mix of conspiracy theories, paranoia, half-truths, non-truths, and bafflingly inappropriate metaphors.