Tea Party town hall erupts

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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.”

Oh for fuck's sake.

[Hotfoot]

Well if you got your children immunized, you'd have less to worry about. Oh wait...

These people are fucking assholes. I can't be as mad at them as I'd like, however, because I doubt they fully understand the responsibility that we share as a nation for their current situation. I would be furious if they were presented with that information and were still the way they are, but I can't make that determination right this moment.

I wonder what we'll do should Mexico's government fall. Should we annex it? I mean, it's only proper that we finish the job somehow, given that it's been our policies and our money that have been going to turning the nation into a fucking warzone. Of course, the best part is that we'll catch basically no flak for it if we did, because we'd be seen as saviors from the evil gangs.

If I believed for a moment that the government was capable of that manner of long-term planning, I'd call it a conspiracy, but no, it's just a coincidence that I'm sure someone will take advantage of, but maybe I'm just in a bad mood.

[LadyTevar]

Justa buncha fuckin' under-educated, Faux-news watchin' NIMBY's that's what they are

[Josh]

The potential failure of Mexico as a state has concerned me for some time, because it'll be a humanitarian crisis like this country's never seen on a first-hand scale.

As for the Tea Party, this is some last legs shit. They've been reduced to mostly nattering, but their last big hurrah was the Federal shutdown.

[Charon]

I want to punch Thomas Rolland in the throat and then give him the award for "Worst Christian of the Day".