GOP Rep.: I Saw Some Teenagers At Border That Looked Like 'Threat' To US

[alp227]

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), chairman of the House Homeland Security committee, said that while it was sad to see young undocumented immigrants at the southwest border, some of the teens looked like a "threat."

"It’s very heart-wrenching as a father to see that — mothers with their babies," McCaul said on "Fox News Sunday." "I also saw some 17-year-olds that I thought looked more like a threat to coming into the United States."

The congressman showed little sympathy for young migrants crossing the border. While he said that some may qualify to stay in the U.S., that most needed to be sent away as a "message of deterrence."

He called for immigration policy changes, including tweaking the 2008 anti-trafficking law to make it easier to quickly deport immigrant children from Central America.

source: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/mccaul-teens-border-threat

[Fred Sanders]

1. The poncho is now the new hoodie for the racists.

[louis-t]

2. If Mr. McCaul wants to see a threat to America..

he should look in the mirror.

[Louisiana1976]

7. Exactly. The real threats to America wear suits and ties.

[lunatica]

3. When my son was 17 I saw elderly people shrink from him because of being a teenager

he was just looking at the girls and searching for his friends (we were in the mall). Not a threatening bone in his body. As a matter of fact he wasn't even noticing the elderly who were sitting in judgement of him and whispering to each other fearfully.

People stereotype people all the time without even knowing it.

[tridim]

4. The GOP should pass a law making it illegal to be a teenager. nt

[KinMd]

5. Republicans are just WIMPS

EVERYTHING scares them.. suppose to be a representative of the most powerful, wealthiest nation in history and he's scared of a 17yo spanish kid trying to reach the US so he maybe won't be killed. bet he's messes himself if he sees a spider

[Cirque du So-What]

6. Hey, even *I* do that!

Not really, although the sight of a big ol' momma wolf spider carrying her brood around on her back does give me the willies.

[Louisiana1976]

8. Rep. McCaul's paranoia and xenophobia are obvious. Not to mention racism. I wish his

views would be ignored and not acted on but I'm afraid many of these kids will be deported to certain death in Central America.

[nobodyspecial]

9. "What was so threatening?"

"He wasn't white."

[jwirr]

10. Deterrence still boils down to death penalty to a rethug. They do not know any other way.