collett, m

Steve King (R-IA) hosts a page on his congressional website about “illegal immigrant stories” that cites the white nationalist publication VDare.King is a racist congressman who has a <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ez8a44/a-short-history-of-congressman-steve-king-saying-racist-shit" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">history</a> of <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/steve-kings-long-history-of-white-nationalism/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">pushing bigotry</a>. He recently <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/06/12/rep-steve-king-elevates-neo-nazi-twitter/220424" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">promoted</a> <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steve-king-white-nationalist-neo-nazi-retweet_us_5b200eaee4b0adfb826e8e40" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">British neo-Nazi</a><a href="https://www.adl.org/blog/mark-collett-britains-alt-right-social-media-propagandist" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Mark Collett</a> on Twitter (the congressman has since <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/congressman-steve-king-nazi-tweet_us_5b22dba4e4b0a0a52779f388" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">claimed</a> ignorance of Collett’s views).King’s house.gov <a href="https://steveking.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">website</a> features a <a href="https://steveking.house.gov/illegal-immigration-stories" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">page</a> titled “Illegal Immigration Stories” that contains information about “illegal aliens” allegedly committing crimes. King has <a href="https://www.factcheck.org/2017/04/steve-king-criminal-aliens/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">frequently</a> <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/07/steve-king-most-outrageous-immigration-rhetoric/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">smeared</a> immigrants as prone to criminality; in reality, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/30/upshot/crime-immigration-myth.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">studies show</a> that <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/01/31/trump-painted-dark-picture-immigrants-despite-facts/1081208001/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">immigration</a> <a href="https://news.wisc.edu/study-shows-undocumented-immigration-doesnt-increase-violent-crime/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">does not</a> increase the rate of crime.One of King’s <a href="https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/uploader/image/2018/06/15/kingvdarelink.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">citations</a> on that “Illegal Immigration Stories” page is an April 2016 VDare <a href="https://www.vdare.com/posts/drunk-driving-illegal-alien-kills-woman-is-granted-bail-and-disappears" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">piece</a> headlined “Drunk Driving Illegal Alien Kills Woman, Is Granted Bail and Disappears.” The VDare piece, by anti-immigrant writer <a href="https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/assets/pdf/civil-rights/immigration/Brenda-Walker-Dan-Amato-2-9-10-12.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Brenda Walker</a>, begins by stating: “Funny how after all these years of Americans being run down by drunk driving illegal aliens, the crime of inebriated vehicle operation by unlawful foreigners is still not taken seriously by authorities.”The Southern Poverty Law Center <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/vdare" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">wrote</a> that VDare “regularly publishes articles by prominent white nationalists, race scientists and anti-Semites.” The Anti-Defamation League <a href="https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/assets/pdf/civil-rights/immigration/Brenda-Walker-Dan-Amato-2-9-10-12.pdf#page=3" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">wrote</a> that VDare is a racist site that “posts, promotes, and archives the work of racists, anti-immigrant figures, and anti-Semites.”Media Matters has documented past VDare headlines <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/10/20/hilton-el-conquistador-cancels-plans-host-upcoming-white-nationalist-vdare-conference/218277" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">including</a>: “One Problem With These Hispanic Immigrants Is Their Disgusting Behavior,” “Indians Aren`t That Intelligent (On Average),” “Diversity Is Strength! It’s Also…Hispanic Immigrants Taking Over FBI’s Ten Most Wanted,” “America Does Not Need ANY Immigrants From Africa,” and “Roll Over, JIHAD—There’s Also HIJRA, Muslim Conquest By Immigration.”King praised <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tags/peter-brimelow" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Peter Brimelow</a>, the white nationalist founder and editor of VDare, while <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/steve-king-and-white-nationalist-cpac-panel-warn-that-americas-greatest-threat-is-its-diversity/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">appearing</a> with him during a 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) <a href="https://www.theroot.com/cpac-panel-to-include-white-nationalist-1790889858" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">panel</a>. Then-BuzzFeed reporter Rosie Gray <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/rep-steve-king-not-worried-about-being-on-panel-w?utm_term=.fq1Z3doEn#.gn2N5PgMl" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">wrote </a>of King in February 2012:<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 25px 30px 10px; margin: 20px 20px 25px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; float: left; width: 612.75px;" /><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 25px 30px 10px; margin: 20px 20px 25px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; float: left; width: 612.75px;">==</blockquote>