doesn't sound like someone who was born Down East.
What say you, matey?
Posted on 06/22/2018 4:56:46 PM PDT by Eddie01
Maine’s Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate was arrested outside a detention center in Texas on Friday morning for refusing to leave the premises after being told he was not allowed in.
The nominee, Zak Ringelstein, announced Wednesday that he was traveling to McAllen, Texas, to deliver personal items, including toys, books and blankets to the immigrant children currently being held there.
A Facebook Live video, which contains the arrest, shows Ringelstein waiting outside the center, being told he cannot go in, and then arguing with border patrol agents in the parking lot. (RELATED: CNN Tries To Shame Border Patrol Agent – He Flips The Script And Leaves Host Speechless)
Ringelstein told the border agents that he believes, without going into the facility, that the children are being deprived of water, books, blankets, and other essential items.
“There are other organizations that we’ve been working with that you can provide them those items. […] legally we cannot accept them into our facility,” a female agent informed Ringelstein.
The agent told him, “and for all the public that’s watching,” that he can deliver the items to churches and other organizations that the facility works with, but legally cannot deliver them at the center.
“If you truly, in your heart, want to deliver this, that’s the way to get them this,” she said.
As dozens more police officers and border patrol agents show up, the agent accused Ringelstein of impeding their operations by loitering in the parking lot. She pointed to the myriad of cop cars in the lot that had since arrived and told Ringelstein that now those cops are not able to work on other issues, including “rescues and responding to car crashes.”
“You are literally imprisoning children here. So let’s think about the equivalency of that,” Ringelstein said.
Ringelstein claimed an agent told him to move his car because he was blocking the way for the car to drop off “prisoners.”
“Are we really talking about children? Are we actually calling them prisoners now? Is that under your enforcement that they’re called prisoners?” Ringelstein asked.
“We do have people that are under arrest,” she replied. A man sitting next to Ringelstein then asked what they were under arrest for, to which the border patrol agent replied, “For illegally entering the country. […] They’ve broken the law. This is a country of laws is it not?” she said.
Ringelstein asked the agent if she would put her own children in jail.
“If they broke the law, they would have to face the consequences. They know that,” she said.
The spat continued, as the agent asked Ringelstein who is currently representing Maine. Ringelstein said he didn’t want to talk about it, and asked what that had to do with anything.
“You say you’re trying to get the word out, […] the media is out there, the media has visited, people who are actually in their positions have visited and are continuing to visit,” the agent said. “We open the doors for them, people who write the laws and can be here. The general public cannot.”
The man next to Ringelstein asked why they can’t take pictures from inside the facility.
“Because there’s children in there that we need to protect,” she responded. “We’re protecting the privacy of the people we have in detention.”
Ringelstein refered to the centers as “Trump’s interment camps” as he is eventually handcuffed by police officers.
“Zak is now a political prisoner of the Trump regime,” a tweet from his personal Twitter page reads, which was also live tweeting the situation.
He is currently being held in a Texas jail on suspicion of criminal trespass, a Class B misdemeanor that could result in up to six months in county jail and a $2,000 fine, according to another tweet on his account.
Ringelstein is a former public school teacher running against incumbent Independent Sen. Angus King.
What say you, matey?
Hog-wash. Zak and his ilk should look at what is happening to Americans for breaking the law:
Liberals like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are all worked up with their propaganda for law breaking foreigners, giving them a pass for political reasons and this American is paying the price for breaking the law...in America.
Where is Morning Joe and the nasty mouthed Mika when law abiding Americans are treated less than Law Breaking Illegals?
Doing what Democrats do.
#Resistance
“Ringelstein is a former public school teacher.....”
I am pleased it’s “former”. We need most of them to be made former.
I guess that he didn’t see the sign that said “Pedophile Free Zone”.
Drama queen.
Sort of in the nature of, "Candy, little girl?"
:^)
So many rabidly-insane creatures in need of an antidote!
He was born in NH, worked in Silicon Valley, came to Maine to teach a couple of years and quit that to run for US Senate. Outside his classroom no one had ever heard of him. He lives in the upscale suburban town of Yarmouth, just down the road from LL Beans.
Will he be forced out of the election for this stunt?
Hope not. We need him to take the far left vote away from Angus King so we can elect a good constitutionalist.
Fascinating opportunity...
Who is the GOP nominee over there... if the Democrat can get enough publicity here... could they pull enough votes away from the Socialist?
I don’t like seeing idiots drag their kids out to a situation like this, because it makes it look like they think their kid being present will inoculate them from action.
Wrong!
Further, it exposes a kid to things they can’t fully grasp, because they aren’t adults yet.
Just because dad says he is right, it doesn’t make it true. Some kids can’t grasp that.
This guy takes a lot for granted, that has not been proven yet.
Also, these people on site do not make policy. They carry out reasoned orders.
These people are following reasoned orders.
This guy is a nut-job.
P
Yep...That's true...However they want (and do) to treat the rest of us either sheep or subhuman serfs...
Ah, so not much danger of 20 Guatemalans moving into the house next to his.
Those kids are getting more food, water and toys than they ever had at “home”.
These jerks don’t give two hoots and a holler about any kids anyway. Kids are the ultimate for their virtue-signaling, unless it’s unborn infants. They wouldn’t have a family of say, 6 or 8 Mexican kids with perhaps an adult or two or five move next to them, much less in with them, if their lives depended on it.
So, friendly Zac brought candy and blankets (in the heat of summer?) .......and other goodies.
And get this, he travelled “a long distance to meet the little tykes.”
Does the jerk know this is the MO used on “TO CATCH A PREDATOR?”
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