Arizona politician mistakes 'Y' campers for migrant children

[kpete]

Source: Arizona Republic

Republican congressional candidate and state legislator Adam Kwasman had just raced up to Phoenix Tuesday morning from the protest in Oracle over the expected arrival of dozens of migrant children at a shelter.

He had tweeted from the scene, "Bus coming in. This is not compassion. This is the abrogation of the rule of law." He included a photo of the back of a yellow school bus.


Kwasman later told me he saw the migrant children. "I was actually able to see some of the children in the buses. The fear on their faces.... This is not compassion," he said.

But there was a problem with Kwasman's story: There was no fear on their faces. Those weren't the migrant children in the school bus. Those were children from the Marana school district. They were heading to the YMCA's Triangle Y Camp, not far from the Rite of Passage shelter for the migrants, at the base of Mt. Lemmon.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/story/brahm-resnik/2014/07/15/arizona-politician-mistakes-campers-for-migrant-children/12701279/

[hobbit709]

1. I think he's been out in the desert sun too long.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. I wonder what kind of look Kwasman has on his face now.

<<<< probably this.

[hobbit709]

6. I think the moran look has frozen his face by now.

[QuestForSense]

16. Was it ever very far from the surface?

[Dustlawyer]

3. Evil little idiot!

[randys1]

4. Putting aside his rush to assume who was who, he is saying compassion is sending them home to die

That is what he is saying, 100-1 he is a christian

you know the kind i mean

[djean111]

5. He seems proud of believing there was fear on their faces. Asswipe.

[gwheezie]

7. Sometimes you just can't make this shit up.n/t

[1StrongBlackMan]

8. Kwaasman ...

is vying to be my congress-critter, I didn't vote for him two years ago, when he ran for the house or last year when he ran for the state legislature. He is, in person, exactly like he appeared in this clip ... tell you something completely uninformed, expect you to believe it, and when challenged, give a weak apology, without backing down on the substance of what led to the apology.

[gcomeau]

9. Possibly they were afraid...

...of the crazy man running around trying to glare in their bus windows at them.

[Shrike47]

13. Seems likely. The mob screen might have concerned them, too.

[mahannah]

10. Vote.

[Enrique]

11. i say deport them anyway

[OldRedneck]

14. When you say "deport them anyway" . . . .

Does "them" refer to the Arizona politician and his lynch mob??

[Ptah]

15. Deport who?

[pinboy3niner]

17. I say Y not?

If they're so afraid of going to Y Camp, it would be a blessing to spare them that.

[tanyev]

12. Yep, those Republican men sure do talk on a higher level.

[Blue Idaho]

18. That ugly look on Adam's face

Is the look of political calculation. He doesn't give a shit about anyone but himself. His rush to get there first means he got it wrong in more ways than one. But he did remind us of one important fact.

There is no such thing as compassionate conservatism. There is only conservatism. And conservatism is, more than anything else, selfishness disguised as a political philosophy.

[AlbertCat]

19. Meanwhile.....

..... the REAL bus got by without being noticed.

The decoy worked.

[Fred Sanders]

20. Kwasman saw fear on the faces of the campers? I saw stupid racist and hate on the face of Kwasman.

[Botany]

21. At least he didn't say well they were brown too.

God or DU forgive me but this man needs an ass kicking ..... you can tell
he hasn't done a day's work in his life.

[davidpdx]

25. I would bet that is at least what he THINKS he saw

Which is why he jumped to the conclusion he did. Someone should share with him that rule about ASSuM(e)ing (fun enough I heard it from a teacher in the 10th grade).

[Judi Lynn]

28. You might consider putting an "obnoxious" alert in the subject line before we see the photo!

The Democrat he's running against looks a little more intelligent, disciplined:

[center][/center]
Who but a Republican would stand around in the desert in a suit?

Maybe Richard M. Nixon could have given him some pointers:

[center][/center]

[Botany]

32. Can you imagine his fear if he was in a group of Chicano men?

The man would be sweating bullets and most likely would have messed his
"tighty whiteys."

I bet you he considers himself a "good christian" too.

Brown people on a bus .....

Judi

[byronius]

22. That man has something awful to hide.

Tenor of his voice alone reveals his complete sickery. The beard-trim completed the picture.

What a dishonest fuck.

[alp227]

23. What a dumbass. But I wonder if he was thinking of the song "YMCA"?

Because of lyrics like "you're in a new town/There's no need to be unhappy"

As well as the parts about "you can make real your dreams" and "You can get yourself clean/you can have a good meal/You can do whatever you feel".

Pretty ironic.

[DeSwiss]

24. AAAHHHGGGGG!!!! THE FEAR OF SUMMER CAMP!!!!

- What a maroon.....

K&R

[oldandhappy]

26. Dear AZ Duers, please

give this story wide distribution. Keep it alive with your reposts, etc. Zowie.

[pinto]

27. Pathetic.

[Javaman]

29. And so begins the right wings moronic war on children. nt

[Blue Idaho]

30. And there is the sound bite.

The war on children.

Perfect.

[Javaman]

33. too bad our Dem congress people won't use it. nt

[lexx21]

31. "Bus coming in. This is not compassion. This is the abrogation of the rule of law." ... WTF?

So he is completely choosing to ignore the "William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008"? Sorry ass hat, that IS the law.

I've said it before and I will say it again... If you want to stem the tide of illegals into this country then you have to do so with a generational plan. Let the kids stay, educate them, then return them to their parent countries as well educated young adults who can actually make a change to their own societies.

Throwing money at a despot ruled country is not an answer. Sending thousands of kids with no hope or future back to those cess pools is not an answer. You have to fix the issue at the root and that is how their countries are run. If we send them back, they will eventually become part of the problem.

For anyone to abridge the TVPRA law in order to get rid of these kids should be drawn and quartered. If we deport them, the go ahead and tear down the statue of liberty because at that point it will stand for absolutely NOTHING!

[whateyethynk]

34. Arizona Republicans Stand on Immigration May Need a Little Work

Arizona #1 - Adam Kwasman can't tell difference between camp kids and immigrants and makes a fool of himself trying to explain it.

Arizona #2 - Sheriff Paul Babeu decides to start trouble instead of stopping it. This hypocrite once tried to force his illegal alien boyfriend to sign a document promising not to reveal their romantic relationship.

http://whateyethynk-politics.blogspot.com/2014/07/quick-notes-arizona-republicans-stand.html