Tennessee Republican tells girl her father has to be deported as tea party crowd cheers

[kpete]

A Tennessee tea party Republican state legislator told a frightened little girl at a town hall meeting on Thursday in Murfreesboro, TN that laws are laws and that her undocumented father is going to have to be deported. According to ProgressivePopulist.org, 11-year-old Josie Molina told state Rep. Scott Desjarlais (R) that she has papers but her father does not.

During a question and answer session at the meeting, Molina stepped up to the microphone and, with a quavering voice, asked, “Mr. DesJarlais, I have papers, but I have a dad who’s undocumented. What can I do to have him stay with me?”

Rather than make any attempt to assuage the girl’s fears, Desjarlais said, “Thank you for being here and thank you for coming forward and speaking,” but “the answer still kind of remains the same, that we have laws and we need to follow those laws and that’s where we’re at.”

The tea party crowd whooped and applauded wildly as the little girl took her seat, head down. Progressive Populist reported that Josie Molina’s father is currently in the process of being deported and that the girl is seeing a child psychologist in order to cope with the stress and anxiety.


MORE:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/17/tennessee-republican-tells-girl-her-father-has-to-be-deported-as-tea-party-crowd-cheers/

[chuckstevens]

1. The Ad for the Democrats to take back the House in 2014!

An ad about this offensive, ethnic cruelty will awaken a sleeping giant in the form of Latino votes! Yes, there are many illegals in the United States (I would be one too, if I faced the dire poverty of Mexico and Central America!), but there are many eligible, but apathetic Latino voters.

First use this awful man's behavior to craft an ad to get Hispanics to registered to vote NOW and then create a massive voter turnout on election day 2014. The Democratic message should be loud and run on every Spanish Language media outlet in the USA: REPUBLICANS DON'T WANT YOU HERE! When the GOP starts squawking about playing the race card (They always do!), run all the quotes of the Republican Party's anti-immigrant hate speech, including this latest Asshole Scott Desjarlais. By the way; what is his ethnic background? Desjarlais, sound kinda of foreign to me.... Hum......

[PotatoChip]

2. Wtf is the matter with these people?

Have they no empathy for a child?

[bunnies]

3. meh. Its a BROWN child.

No big deal.

[Boomerproud]

5. That's why they're Teabaggers.

It's all about THEIR lives, THEIR "rights."

[SummerSnow]

9. nah..she's too old. They only like fetuses

[20score]

4. These are the assholes who claim to be "Good Christians." Terrible people.

[rdharma]

6. Have these teabillies no shame?!!!!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

7. This is what makes America grate,...on our nerves.

[Turbineguy]

8. Never, ever ask a teabagger such a question.

Stick with the safe stuff like, "When can I expect two burly black men to come and take my guns?"

[Half-Century Man]

10. Okay, second try. Not longer weeping blood.

In my humble opinion if Rep. Scott Desjarlais were to suffer horrendous burns in an automobile crash, and had to have his own ass used a skin graft to replace his face. And forced to spend a life time regretting that used-to-be-ass tattoo he got got on spring break in Tijuana. It would not be enough.

Have a nice heart attack asshole

[Gus Lammas]

11. Desjarlais?

'zat an Umericun name?

[AsahinaKimi]

12. baka tare

Jigoku e ike!

[gtar100]

13. Words fail me. I cannot understand that mentality.

Nothing but ego-driven bravado. So much needs to be said but the ones who need to hear it the most are deaf (as in close-minded), dumb (as in stupid), and blind (as in ignorant).