RAW STORY
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.
Desjarlais is a former physician and anti-choice crusader who was
fined $500 by the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners after it came to
light that he had engaged in multiple extramarital affairs with female patients.
When one woman became pregnant, the staunch anti-abortion conservative
pressured her into terminating the pregnancy. Another patient charged
that Desjarlais prescribed narcotic painkillers to her for recreational use and frequently smoked marijuana with her.
“I know God has forgiven me” for the transgressions, Desjarlais told a conservative radio host in an interview in December of 2012.
Watch video of the exchange, embedded below via the National Day Laborer Organizing Network
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