7.17.2014

Sad Campers

Charles Blow in today's NYT:

Adam Kwasman, a Republican congressional candidate and state legislator, also showed up to protest the children's arrival. When a school bus was spotted, Kwasman tweeted a picture of it with the words, "Bus coming in. This is not compassion. This is the abrogation of the rule of law."

Kwasman even regaled a local reporter with what he said he saw on the bus:

"I was able to actually see some of the children in the buses and the fear on their faces. This is not compassion."

That was until the reporter informed Kwasman that the children on the bus weren't migrant children but local YMCA campers who, according to "reporters at the scene," were "laughing and taking pictures on their iPhones."

Kwasman's response: "They were sad, too."

–Midwest and Elsewhere Bureau

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