Michele Bachmann on Immigration: We Can’t Settle

YouTube ^ | 9/30/2012 | Michele Bachmann

[South40]

Video here

[dusttoyou]

That was a BUMP in the road.

[dusttoyou]

Calling all PDSers.. Hurry help me.....

[hosepipe]

Bachmann is the best on this issue.. but Newt is looking very Presidential..
He just published a strong plan for “Hope and Change”..

http://www.newt.org/21st-century-contract-america

[Nea Wood]

Michele: “Well of course what we need to do is first secure the borders.

The late, great Terry Anderson, who had a radio program where illegal immigration was the only topic, always warned to beware of politicians who say, "We need to secure the borders first." None of this "first" business! Wishy-washy politicians who talk about securing the borders "first" have no intention of doing anything about illegal immigration.

[Irenic]

Yes, she also has a vote that makes me wonder about her being a true 'stickler' about our tax dollars going to illegals for education. Head Start Act of 2007 Representative Bachmann voted YES

Of interest, Texas Rep Poe, who is VERY strong on immigration, voted NO. He is also the one who has some legislation that I don't see Bachmann co-sponsoring. She could be making an effort to help us this very minute, more than words on a campaign trail.

I suppose Rep Poe could be heartless and Bachmann was just showing heart for those poor, children, who are "limited English proficient and children of migrant or seasonal farm workers".

It was probably something sad like this..."Several kids and babies died in the fields because parents were fearful of sending them to Head Start,"

I think Bachmann needs to come out with a real plan, not just a fence and I will have the states and ICE's back. Lets hear a REAL plan! If she is so pure on this subject, as she claims.

[Irenic]

The criteria for participating in migrant and seasonal Head Start programs is low family income and agricultural employment, she said. “Since the Head Start program was started in 1965, we have never asked families if they are citizens, and it’s never been a requirement,” she said.

Migrant and seasonal Head Start programs operate in 39 states and serve more than 30,000 migrants and 3,000 children of seasonal farm workers, she said.

They serve children from 6 months to school age and also provide a variety of health, nutritional and transportation services.

United Migrant Opportunity Services operates eight migrant and seasonal Head Start programs in Wisconsin that serve 530 children.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2008/08/28/662335/officials-tracking-down-illegal.html

[Irenic]

Oh...and not all American tax paying kids qualify to be in the program and get free baby-sitting and viddles.

[SharpRightTurn]

“That was a BUMP in the road.”

If that is the case it is unfortunate, because no one has taken more conservative positions than her, on immigration, ridding ourselves of ObamaDeathCare, getting the federal leviathan under control, etc.

I’ll support Bachmann unless and until a more conservative candidate gets in the race.

[WashingtonSource]

Illegal immigrants have been self-deporting at a rapid clip now since 2007. The lack of opportunities caused by enforcing the law will send them packing back to where they came from. People don’t seem to understand this. Sealing the border keeps new people form coming in. Penalizing employers will send the ones here home. Also, cutting off the gravy train of benefits will send them. As well as ending the anchor baby fiasco.