Tea Party town hall erupts as Texas state Rep urges ‘compassion’ for migrant kids
Thank faux for all the hate and misinformation here (imo). Their reactions are repulsive (imo).
I wonder what Simpson thinks of his party now?
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/23/tea-party-town-hall-erupts-as-texas-state-rep-urges-compassion-for-migrant-kids/#.U9BJ6B7N1q0.facebook
Tea Party town hall erupts as Texas state Rep urges ‘compassion’ for migrant kids
By David Ferguson
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 18:47 EDT
A town hall meeting held by Texas Tea Party state Rep. David Simpson (R) on Wednesday got heated as Simpson’s constituents railed at him for not doing more to stop the influx of unaccompanied, undocumented minors coming to the United States from Central and South America.
The Longview, Texas News-Journal reported that the conservative attendees expressed health concerns, religious fears and doubts about Simpson’s commitment to putting his “constituents first.”
Simpson attempted to tell the crowd of about 160 residents that the thousands of children arriving at the Mexico-U.S. border are fleeing lives of violence and abuse, including gangsters who specialize in trafficking children as sex slaves. Texans should treat the children with compassion, he said, a notion that his audience summarily rejected.
After Simpson’s slide show of the faces of some of the border children, Longview resident Terri Hill said, “I believe your constituents should come first when you talk about people who are impacted. You are to represent us, and we have children. These {migrant children} are people that are coming in with leprosy, tuberculosis, polio.”
Another resident, Ben Denson, expressed fear that the children could be disease-carriers.
“I’ve got four kids and a fifth one on the way,” Denson said. “These {Central American} kids have scabies and influenza, viral pneumonia, leprosy. These kids are going to be part of the school system…They are bleeding Texas {Democrat} blue.”
Other residents fear that the children are already criminals in their hearts.
“We need our borders protected. We need a lot of things, but what we don’t need is more people at the trough,” said Thomas Rolland to Simpson. “These people are not coming in with a good, Christian heart. Most of them are criminals, anyway.”
Simpson protested, “These children are fodder in this. They are being assaulted.”
The gang wars and turmoil they are fleeing, he said, are not the children’s fault.
“I don’t believe in amnesty,” he assured the crowd. “I don’t believe in treating people who’ve crossed the border as a murderer…I do think there should be a path, a legal path, for naturalization or citizenship. We’re a nation of immigrants.”
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Response to alarimer (Reply #1)
It is the reactions to Obama that makes him sort of a "revealer"
or "exposer" of wacko apocalyptic believers.
All the vermin come out of the woodwork to lay hate on him.
So now we know just who and where most of the vermin are.
who was spreading the scabies crap. I don't remember who he was, but I was thinking his statement of this tactic would not go over well for those children. Surprise, surprise these "people" believe this crap.
I have never listened to IN-Sannity, but I was carpooling with someone and they were listening to him. I was somewhat disappointed in my car-mate and asked him if he was a republican, he told me he didn't belong to either party and he was only listening to Sean to hear what the "people" had to say. Most of the "people" calling were parroting the exact same talking points over and over again.
Give the nation a fish that has been polluted they become poisonous thinkers. Teach a nation to fish they too become poisonous with their own polluted thoughts and actions.
This has become a poisonous nation of non-thinkers. Especially when most of these "people" quite thinking for themselves a long time ago.
I hope Rep. Simpson has some serious soul searching to overcome the hate spewed rhetoric his ilk has been promoting for decades. I certainly hope it isn't too little too late.
Thanks for the info babylonsister 
And he sure as fuck isn't a 10-yr old Honduran boy 
There were several people there trying to educate and point out the realities of the situation including Rep. David Simpson. Who by the way was the Tea Party's darling there before this incident. 
These are the people you've tethered yourselves to conservatives. This is the hate you've given a voice to in our country.
Oddly enough, I never wondered how she grew up to vote. There was quite the political argument going on in the dorm - this was the 1960's after all - and when someone stupidly asked her what she thought, she came up with another winner: "I don't know. I'll have to go home and ask my daddy what I think."
I hope you are well!
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Posted it to FB and of course none of my RW fundie friends commented.
ugh, they're SICKENING
They sure are quite the hateful bunch aren't they?
Compassion is evil.
Who knew?
