Adam Kwasman was filmed shouting among protesters waiting for a bus. Hill hopeful mistakes YMCA kid bus

Apparently it is not always fun to stay at the YMCA.

On Tuesday, Arizona Republican and congressional candidate Adam Kwasman mistook a group of children headed to YMCA Camp for undocumented immigrant children.


The House hopeful was filmed shouting among protesters waiting for a bus of what they thought were immigrant children. While on the scene, he tweeted, “Bus coming in. This is not compassion. This is the abrogation of the rule of law,” with a picture of a school bus on Tuesday morning.

“I was actually able to see some of the children in the buses,” Kwasman told Arizona Central reporter Brahm Resnik. “The fear on their faces…This is not compassion.”

Resnik quickly broke the news to Kwasman, saying “Did you know that was a bus with YMCA kids?”

“They were sad, too,” Kwasman said.

Kwasman tweeted later that day, “Last tweet not the bus of illegal immigrant children. Thank God.” An hour later, he tweeted, “I apologize for the confusion. That was my error.”

Kwasman is running in the Republican primary for a seat representing Arizona’s 1st Congressional District.

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