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.
[Full transcript]
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Poor little newtie. Rush did say Tuesday that Bachmann was a fine conservative. As was Cain and Santorium, he did leave, newtie and his brothers Willard and Perry off the list. Maybe you can call and cry at him about it while you are on that down elevator..
Just off hand why would they do that? I wouldn't.
What a stupid post. So Bachmann saying she can’t deport all 11.5 million (there are far more) illegals is now equal to Newt’s lifelong love of amnesty? How pathetic can NewtBots get?
Cut off the welfare, jobs and benefits and they will self-deport.
Roof! Ankle biter...
stalking horse for myth
Reagan said amnesty was one of his biggest mistakes.
Conveniently ommitted from the pro-illegal posts on the subject
Newts answer to all things suck up to liberals with mandate and amnesty.
Dood
So who exactly is it that you support. Every candidate has said that they will not deport them all ... so I wanna know, who is this magical mystery candidate that you support.
Why the honorable Eric Holder of course.
Well maybe not. The fact is that I don't think current law is enforceable. To many violators of the law and not enough cops. And we all know there is zero support from the Federal Government to actually enforce the law. But even if the Federal environment could be changed I just don't see where true enforcement (deport them all) is even close to being practical.
I'll tell you how to prove that to yourself. Just walk around Los Angeles some time and tell me how you are going to deport almost everyone you see on the streets.
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Oh... and 9-9-9 to you too...
Assuming you mean en masse, you should be boosting Newt! That is his #1 of ten solutions;
SOLUTIONS
1. Control the border.
The United States must control its border. It is a national security imperative.
Every nation has the right to control its border. Historically, every country that has been determined to control their border has been able to do so.
Controlling the border is a matter of resources and will. As Americans, we can accomplish unimaginable feats when we have the resources and the will. The United States won World War II in 3 years and 8 months. In the 44 months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States mobilized its resources to defeat Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and Imperial Japan.
Unfortunately, we haven’t brought any sense of urgency to controlling our border – even as a drug-fueled civil war now rages in Mexico.
In October 1986, Ronald Reagan wrote in his diary that he was signing the Simpson-Mazzoli immigration reform bill because it was “high time we regained control of our borders & this bill will do this."
Today, a quarter century later, we still have not achieved President Reagan’s goal and expectation.
This bill will waive every obstacle to controlling the border and would shift resources to achieve virtually 100% control by January 1, 2014. If necessary, we would move one-half of the 23,000 Washington-area Department of Homeland Security bureaucrats to the Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona borders.
A border control strategy must be responsive to the unique threats that exist at different parts of the frontier. This strategy must include round-the-clock drone flights to monitor activity, multi-layer, strategic fencing in urban areas, and vastly improved communication between state and federal authorities.
http://www.newt.org/solutions/immigration
(There's a sign up sheet, there too!)
Newt has supported this before, while Bachmann hasn’t.
just off hand why do you amnesty supporters try and claim you are conservatives.
So you don’t like Newt. That’s easy to say, but who is your preferred candidate, the guy who you totally agree with?
Wake up and get off the perfection kick
Just hammering employers wouldn’t work, imho. We’d have to cut off all bennies to include medical.
Newt has always supported amnesty.
good point... even Herman Cain(whom I really like) won’t be kicking out a grandmother who came here illegally(with her parents 40 years ago) when she was a teenager to pick fruit and since has raised her kids and grandkids to love and revere this country..
Cain has two choices.. if he allows her to stay in any scenario he’s for amnesty
if he sends in the police to kick her out he’s going to be considered by most people in this country to be a mean evil right winger who pretends to be Christian
I’m as right wing as they come and I wouldn’t kick her out.. don’t get me wrong there are loads of illegals whom I would toss out without hesitation and I certainly wouldn’t be giving illegals free education but it’s cruel and foolish to not make some exceptions which is what Gingrich is saying
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