Last week a 13 year old Wisconsin girl Leslie Flores asked her Governor Scott Walker why he is trying to deport her father (who was standing next to her). Walker avoids addressing their specific situation as a family facing the possibility that a deportation could break up their family. Instead Walker keeps retreating into Republican boilerplate asserting that Obama's executive order that would halt breaking up families like the Flores was unlawful.
This Is How Scott Walker Responded When A 13-Year-Old Girl Asked Why He Was Trying To Deport Her Dad
BY ESTHER YU-HSI LEE
During the five-minute exchange obtained by Voces de la Frontera, Walker told 13-year-old Leslie Flores, “I completely sympathize with the situation you’re all in and others are in,” but said that he wouldn’t drop Wisconsin from the lawsuit because “the president of the United States can’t make law without going through the Congress.”
Leslie was in Iowa with her seven-year-old brother Louis and her undocumented father Jose.
Before breaking out into tears, Louis asked Walker, “Do you want me to like come home and come from school and my dad get deported?” Walker sidestepped, stating that he had two nieces who go to school in Waukesha, but that his point was “in America nobody’s above the law.” Instead of addressing the topic of deportation, Walker stated that he hoped kids like Louis would learn in school that “the President and the Congress have to work together.”