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Congressman Kinzinger visits Putnam County High School, leaves students with important message: Be kind

Adam Kinzinger House Senate Illinois
Adam Kinzinger House Senate Illinois

 
GRANVILLE – Congressman Adam Kinzinger took a visit to Putnam County High School in Granville to speak to students about his early life, sending a message of kindness and encouragement. Kinzinger shied away from politics to speak to students on some of his major life lessons that brought him to where he is today, serving Illinois’ 16th Congressional District. His message to high schoolers was this: be good to people. Its something that people will never forget and if they do forget it, at least they will never remember that you were mean. Kinzinger says that the next generation needs to be those who can lead with kindness and coexist with others of differences. 
 
While Kinzinger’s message was everything but politics, students took advantage during question and answer time to ask him some hard hitting questions on boarder security, the Syrian Civil War and his next moves in Congress. 
 
Student 1: What’s your opinion on removing funds from the general defense fund to support Trumps wall?
 
Kinzinger: In February I joined the military on the border and doing border patrol or a few weeks and what I see on the border is an absolute emergency. 
 
Each time I’m at the border, its porous and open and we don’t have enough assets to deal with it. What I see is heartbreaking. What struck me the most is the drug cartel is victimizing people in the process. Last year there were 300 bodies in the Arizona desert of immigrants who got lost and couldn’t find there way. I don’t like that the president used emergency funds to do this, but I supported it because there is a crisis on the border and we’ve started to see those numbers go down.
 
 
Student 2: What are your plans for the future?
 
Kinzinger: I don’t want to be somebody that does everything based off of what I think the next move it going to be, politically. All I know is if an opportunity come to run for a difference office, and I think I could win and am the right person to do it, I’d certainly take a look at it. 
 
Student 3: What is your stance on the recent increasing tensions between Syria and Turkey? 
 
Kinzinger: Sunday night the president inexplicably, and I don’t understand why, had a conversation with the leader of Turkey and decided to pull the 50 troops out that were prohibiting the Turks from attacking. What we are seeing right now is a catastrophe. I fear what it could lead to long term. America didn’t stand by its word. That will have an impact in the future. We will have a war someday. Were going to need people to stand up with us. How do you convince people we will stick by them if you do something like this? 

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