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Thank faux for all the hate and misinformation here (imo). Their reactions are repulsive (imo).
I wonder what Simpson thinks of his party now?
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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 Simpsons 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 Simpsons 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 Simpsons 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.
Ive 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 dont 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 childrens fault.
I dont believe in amnesty, he assured the crowd. I dont believe in treating people whove crossed the border as a murderer
I do think there should be a path, a legal path, for naturalization or citizenship. Were a nation of immigrants.