Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst (R) warned that “prayer rugs” have been found on the Texas side of the Mexican-Texas border and suggested that states have both an obligation and a right to act independently of the government on border security.
“Prayer rugs have recently been found on the Texas side of the border in the brush,” Dewhurst said during a speech Friday at the Values Voter Summit, echoing a claim reported on Breitbart and thought to actually be an Adidas soccer jersey.
Dewhurst went on to say that he believed that states had the right to “act independently of the government” when it comes to border country.
Dewhurst is one of a number of Republicans who have argued that there’s a threat of terrorist coming into the country through the southern border.
“Eight years ago I said ‘I’m fed up with the federal government, they are not going to do their constitutional responsibility to defend our sovereign border and when that happens I believe the states have not just an obligation but a right to step in and act independently of the government,” Dewhurst continued.
looks like george and laura bush, forgot their rugs
During his primary with Cruz, Dewhurst was considered the moderate. shows how effed up the Republican Party has become.
No Muslim would leave a prayer rug behind.
Also …I’ve lived on the border for nearly half a century and in Nogales blankets and rugs are a huge industry for sale to tourists. I have many in my home.
This reminds me of Gov. Brewer’s comment about headless bodies in the desert …she said that a few years ago.
Must the repubs run on fear? Have they got nothing else?
if I’m not mistaken observant Muslims do not leave their prayer rugs behind.
Can Dewhurst produce the evidence? Outside of his own imagination, I doubt it.
Somebody finds some bath mats from a demolished trailer park and they become prayer rugs now?