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Debate Flashback: When Bachmann Supported A Non-Deportation Approach To Illegal Immigration
Townhall ^ | 11/25/2011 | Greg Hengler

Posted on 11/25/2011 12:41:43 PM PST by TBBT

Congresswoman Bachmann appears to be conveniently forgetting her own views on immigration in order to score political points. During the presidential debate at the Reagan Library on September 7, she said she won't deport all 11 million illegal immigrants here in the United States.

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HARRIS: A quick 30-second rebuttal on the specific question. The fence is built, the border is under control. What do you do with 11.5 million people who are here without documents and with U.S.- born children?

BACHMANN: Well, that's right. And again, it is sequential, and it depends upon where they live, how long they have been here, if they have a criminal record. All of those things have to be taken into place.

Sounds almost identical to Newt's position that once we secure the border first, we can have a humane enforcement policy vis-a-vis some of those remaining.

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KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; bachmann
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You all realize that there is no perfect candidate on that stage? They all have warts. At the end of the day the chosen candidate will be a compromise.
1 posted on 11/25/2011 12:41:46 PM PST by TBBT
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So what you’re saying is that I don’t have to support Newt to get the same thing?

LOL


2 posted on 11/25/2011 12:44:39 PM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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Video - Debate Flashback: When Bachmann Supported A Non-Deportation Approach To Illegal Immigration
3 posted on 11/25/2011 12:44:59 PM PST by TBBT
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To: cripplecreek

You forgot to put /snark at the end of that...


4 posted on 11/25/2011 12:46:45 PM PST by TBBT
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To: cripplecreek

They all say the same thing...lol.


5 posted on 11/25/2011 12:47:46 PM PST by ez ("Abashed the Devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton, "Paradise Lost")
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To: TBBT

yep let’s forget voting next November.. they are ALL RINO’s

Ronald Reagan was the biggest RINO of them all.. he could never be nominated today

it’s over.. even Palin isn’t Conservative enough..


6 posted on 11/25/2011 12:47:46 PM PST by Lib-Lickers 2
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Newt = Amnesty
7 posted on 11/25/2011 12:48:39 PM PST by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Newt, Willard, Perry and his fellow supporters.)
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To: TBBT

I knew I could count on you to supply it.


8 posted on 11/25/2011 12:48:52 PM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: cripplecreek
NO ILLEGALS.

NO AMNESTY.

NO NEWT.

9 posted on 11/25/2011 12:49:58 PM PST by South40 (Just say NO to amnesty. Say NO to Newt!)
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To: org.whodat

Putting in large font even makes it more so... Right?

Come on now... Just say it... You know you want to...

Here let me help you.

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10 posted on 11/25/2011 12:51:19 PM PST by TBBT
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To: org.whodat

Newt = the ultimate insider RINO leech.


11 posted on 11/25/2011 12:53:05 PM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: org.whodat

Oh let’s not forget the answer to all things:

9-9-9!!!


12 posted on 11/25/2011 12:53:05 PM PST by TBBT
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HARRIS: A quick 30-second rebuttal on the specific question. The fence is built, the border is under control. What do you do with 11.5 million people who are here without documents and with U.S.- born children?

An excellent question. It should be asked of all the candidates.

Just what do you do if and when we have true border security. Dollars to donuts that none of them would give an answer that wouldn't look to many on this forum as some form of amnesty. I think in fact we would get a very Bachmann-like answer from most of them.

I, for one, am not surprised at all by Bachmann's answer. And I've yet to hear a really good plan that does provide a workable approach to shipping 60 year old grandparents who have been here for 25 years back to Mexico. They are not going to volunteer so it would take a massive police action to find them and send them back to their original home. It just seems impractical to me and I still haven't heard a good scheme for accomplishing it.

And I'm certainly not Mr. Amnesty. I'm just probing the system looking for a practical approach to this problem.

13 posted on 11/25/2011 12:53:37 PM PST by InterceptPoint
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To: TBBT

Amnesty Newt the 666 contender,


14 posted on 11/25/2011 12:54:53 PM PST by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Newt, Willard, Perry and his fellow supporters.)
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You amnesty people are clueless. What do we do about those people already here? If you respond “deport them all” I’ll know you aren’t a serious person, just a blowhard. With all due respect.


15 posted on 11/25/2011 12:57:31 PM PST by faucetman (Just the facts ma'am, just the facts)
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Politically speaking, these Republicans are all handling this issue stupidly. I wouldn't even play the deportation game. No, we simply aren't going to round up all n million aliens and deport them. It can't be done without large-scale violations of the Constitution.

There is a more effective approach that would sell. The aliens are coming for jobs. It's much easier to enforce the instant check of ID (which is now purposely optional). Secondly, if an employer doesn't do due diligence, impose massive fines. Strangle illegal immigration at the employer end. Along with that, allow temporary work visas, which would have a valid duration of less than one year and with no immigration path. In that way, we can still get temporary workers for some jobs. The effect of these two measures would cause the aliens to go home on their own, at their expense, and then apply for legal work.

16 posted on 11/25/2011 12:57:36 PM PST by ElectronVolt
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You all realize that there is no perfect candidate on that stage? They all have warts. At the end of the day the chosen candidate will be a compromise.

Oh that's your spin now? You sure worried about imperfections when crapping over other candidates. Now your boy genius Newt has a lead and it's "let's not be too picky".

You are laughably transparent along with 3 or 4 others around here.
17 posted on 11/25/2011 12:58:48 PM PST by over3Owithabrain
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To: InterceptPoint

How many times does it need to be pointed out to you we enforce the laws and let the state and local cops have all assets form illegals drivers and from employers . They will be leaving in mass while the fence is getting built.


18 posted on 11/25/2011 12:59:08 PM PST by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Newt, Willard, Perry and his fellow supporters.)
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Amnesty Newt the 666 contender,

Your last name Bachmann? I thought you nasty, petty, little ankle-biting shtick sounds familiar...
19 posted on 11/25/2011 12:59:13 PM PST by TBBT
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To: InterceptPoint

I think we all know that there are some who will get amnesty but the real question becomes again, Who do you trust to enforce the law?


20 posted on 11/25/2011 12:59:47 PM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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