Iowa GOPer: Child Immigrants Could Be Arriving ‘Highly Trained As Warriors’

Young boys sleep in a holding cell where hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children are being processed and held at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center on Wednesday, June 18, 2... Young boys sleep in a holding cell where hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children are being processed and held at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center on Wednesday, June 18, 2014, in Nogales, Ariz. CPB provided media tours Wednesday of two locations in Brownsville, Texas, and Nogales, that have been central to processing the more than 47,000 unaccompanied children who have entered the country illegally since Oct. 1. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Pool) MORE LESS
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Republican National Committeewoman Tamara Scott shared her concerns on her weekly web show Thursday that child immigrants may be “highly trained as warriors” who could pose a threat to the U.S.

The Iowa conservative activist shared her concerns with her guest, tea partier Mary Huls.

“When we see these kids, you and I think young kids, we think maybe 12-year-olds, maybe even homeschoolers — or excuse me, middle schoolers,” Scott said. “But we know back in our revolution, we had 12-year-olds fighting in our revolution and for many of these kids, depending on where they’re coming from, they could be coming from other countries and be highly trained as warriors who will meet up with their group here and actually rise up against us as Americans. We have no idea what’s coming through our borders but I would say biblically it’s not a Christian nation when you entice people to do wrong.”

Scott’s guest echoed her concerns, affirming that children are receiving warrior training.

“We do know that Hamas and — I’m sorry Hezbollah fund several training camps in Venezuela and other South American countries and they are training these young, these youths, beginning as early as eight or nine years through the MS-13 gangs but they are being trained as warriors,” Huls said. “You’re absolutely right.”

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