Wednesday, July 16

It's Fun to Play at the YMCA?

Without effective rule of law, sadly you get people trying to take the law into their own hands:

ORACLE, Ariz. -- Protesters waved "Return to Sender" signs, shoved a group of mariachi musicians and waited for a bus of immigrant children that the local sheriff told them would arrive. At one point, they briefly halted a bus before realizing it was carrying children from a YMCA.

According to USA Today, Arizona Rep. Adam Kwasman was among those who thought that the bus of YMCA campers was full of migrant children, tweeting: "Bus coming in. This is not compassion. This is the abrogation of the rule of law."

He later deleted the tweet and apologized for the mistake.

Last tweet not the bus of illegal immigrant children. Thank God.
— Adam Kwasman (@AdamKwasman) July 15, 2014

The bus of Central American children never arrived, ending a day of protest in a small Arizona town that drew more than 100 people on both sides of the immigration debate.

I wish, for the sake of the nation, the Congress would convene a special session and take collective action on immigration reform. As they do nothing, people in the states will be left to their own devices, and while some social issues might lend themselves to experimentation in the state laboratories of democracy, our national immigration policies should not be decided piecemeal because our elected leaders chose not to act and simply turned away...