Trump supporters spit on migrant children visiting DC for inauguration: Dem. lawmaker

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect U.S. Rep. Vincent Gonzalez's decision to not attend the inauguration.

Both U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela of Brownsville and Vicente Gonzalez of McAllen announced Thursday they were boycotting President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, taking the count of Texas congressmen who won't attend to five.

They join U.S. Reps. Joaquin Castro, Lloyd Doggett of Austin and Al Green of Houston, in addition to dozens of House Democrats around the country.

Vela initially planned to attend Friday’s event, which he thought could serve as “a moment of healing and outreach” but racist remarks from inauguration attendees and a lack of diversity in the final cabinet selection made him reconsider.

“While visiting Washington, DC, 40 migrant students from my district were subjected to comments of 'beaners,' 'burritos,' and 'wetbacks' from Inauguration attendees," Vela wrote in a statement released Thursday. "One student was even spit on."

https://www.texastribune.org/2017/01/19/texas-congressman-filemon-vela-signals-boycott-tru/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. This is the new America...non white Christians need not apply.

[Angry Dragon]

2. Spit on by rich white folks

[Loge23]

3. This will not end well

It is clear that the deplorables have no shame. If this country can come back from this horrible period, the deplorables will have to be shamed publicly.
That will not be pretty.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Shamed?

I'd settle for flogged publicly. Who the hell spits on a kid?

[cyclonefence]

4. Not to downplay the outrageousness of what happened,

but the story says only *one* student was spat upon. That's still ghastly, of course, if it really happened. I have never believed the stories of Vietnam vets being spat upon, and this story pricked my ears. I mean, think about what it means to spit on someone--you have to get close to them and stay there long enough to discharge spittle. Then what do you do? Run away? Do people allow themselves or their friends to be spat upon with some kind of immediate response?

I just find spitting stories suspicious and ultimately weakening to the cause.

ETA As it happens, I p-tooie every time I say a certain relative's name because I despise her, and maybe the "spitting at" was really "spitting in the presence of" in which case, never mind.

[blueseas]

6. This needs to be seen everywhere - please everyone vidieo tape!

Who raised these people?

[Warren DeMontague]

7. Well, Jesus did say "let the little children come to me, so I can check their immigation status

for the lord hath saveth up many a righteous lung oyster to layeth upon their little heads so they get back hence south of the border"