Bachmann Signs Pledge to Build ‘Double Fence’ Along Entire Border by 2013

And who is going to clean our homes and do all the work the lazy American’s don’t want to you? You Mrs. bow to my husband’s every word! No one wants you as president you moron!

Legal citizens and legal residents are NOT the same thing. As a legal resident, e.g. legal full time student, it is legal to receive financial aid from private institutions. Is she talking about legal residents who are here under a legal student visa? Is she against those too?

“Undocumented students in Texas received $44 million in financial aid, money she said should have gone to legal citizens”.

And yet she and other Republicans/Tea Partiers in the House recently crafted a bill which would forbid the Dept. of Education from enforcing new rules re’ for-profit “colleges”/vocational schools ( “In 2009, students at for-profit colleges received more than $4 BILLION in Pell Grants and more than $20 BILLION in federal loans provided by the Department of Education” Source: GAO General Accounting Office).

Also according to the GAO study cited above, such colleges routinely engaged in or encouraged fraud in applying for such student aid, made deceptive claims to prospective students, failed to adequately prepare students for gainful employment or transfer to another institution, and charged much MORE for tutition than public institutions for the same courses of study.

Her concern is obviously not the abuse of taxpayer funded student aid (not when it is being siphoned off by the private, for-profit sector, anyway). She is just playing the Brown card in hopes it will elicit knee-jerk support from the Anti-immigrant faction.

Too little too late, Michelle.

In the words of a great Republican “…tear down this wall”

Bachmann is insane and those of you in Minnesota have my sympathy, but then here in Wisconsin we have Scott Walker, so we understand your pain. Unemployment, health care, infrastructure… none of that matters to Bachmann. “The first thing I’m going to do is build a double fence”. Yep, that will solve our country’s problems…

If a fence is good, then a “double fence” has to be twice as good, right? And if that doesn’t work, she can try the “double secret probation fence,” which is guaranteed to keep those scary Mexicans away.

She wouldn’t raise any taxes on anyone, but will find a way to build a fence along the border? With what money? I think the billions she would spend on a ridiculous fence would better be spent on building roads and repairing rundown bridges!!!!

Uh-huh….she’s gonna do this all by herself, is she? OY! She makes me tired…

She is right,but you have to do it the correct way. 4ft razor wire on top, 3ft concrete
footing. They want in work for it. Razor wire is unforgiving,and the border patrol
will have easy pick’ens down at the border. Also to build will create a good year of work for American workers.

Legal citizens and legal residents are NOT the same thing. As a legal resident, e.g. legal full time student, it is legal to receive financial aid from private institutions. Is she talking about legal residents who are here under a legal student visa? Is she against those too? posted by Dani

Comment: She’s so willfully ignorant that she doesn’t know the difference between citizen and legal alien. She probably thinks a ‘green card ‘is a supermarket discount card.

It is so disingenuous to represent that stopping illegal Mexican immigration would help US employment. I do not want a job competing with people making sure crops do not rot in the fields and my food prices stay low. I went to college and worked 20 years to lose my job to legal H1B immigration from India. This whole immigration thing is upside down, illegal immigration from non Job threatening Mexico, legal immigration by job destroying India. The only ones that win are immigration lawyers collecting fees (and paying for the ads for this article by the way) and the politicians they pay to spread crap about building fences on the border with Mexico.

It doesn’t matter that a double fence is impractical. What matters is it sounds good to the uneducated. Bachmann has no conscience that prevents her from scamming those she sees a little more than sheep to be manipulated.

How about a signing a pledge, or better a law, that allows this “illegal” work force to enter and remain in the US as long as they have a job that an employer is willing to put on the books so they don’t get exploited. We already know many of these workers are willing to do jobs Americans are not willing to do. Look at Georgia and Alabama and the problems their farmers are having. Support a Christian solution while helping everyone. Oh wait, that is not the Republican way. They just like to sign stupid pledges that hurt the USA and demonize human beings.

Lets put this nitwit Bachmann between the two fences with
her ear to the ground. Maybe she’ll be able to hear the
immigrants digging tunnels right under the fences and her. LOL!!!

She is right,but you have to do it the correct way. 4ft razor wire on top, 3ft concrete
footing. POSTED BY: DEADWRESTLER******Golly Gee! All I have to do is dig down
4 feet to get under this fence! They have walls 10ft below ground level in Gaza these
days and didn’t make a dent in the crossovers. where are these crazy ideas coming
from.

Double fence… or a half a brain? Bachmann is such a fool!

Immigration reform would generate $4.5 to $5.4 billion in additional net tax revenue over three years,” the letter says. “The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office scored the bi-partisan 2007 comprehensive immigration reform bill that was proposed in the Senate as increasing federal revenues by $15 billion over the 2008-2012 period and by $48 billion over the 2008-2017 period.”

Studies from groups across the political spectrum have proven the economic and fiscal benefits of comprehensive immigration reform. By requiring illegal immigrants to register with the government, pay fees and back taxes, and correct their status, we can drastically expand our tax base. A report by the Center for American Progress found that passing comprehensive immigration reform would generate $4.5 to $5.4 billion in additional net tax revenue over three years. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office scored the bi-partisan 2007 comprehensive immigration reform bill that was proposed in the Senate as increasing federal revenues by $15 billion over the 2008-2012 period and by $48 billion over the 2008-2017 period.

In addition to expanding our tax base, economists have proven that comprehensive immigration reform would also increase wages for native workers, thereby boosting tax revenues generated by all workers. The CATO Institute found that forcing undocumented immigrants to get right with the law by registering with the government would boost the incomes of U.S. households by $180 billion in 2019, which would also lead to increased government revenues, without increasing tax rates.

Just like our budget deficit, immigration reform is an issue that we cannot afford to ignore. Bipartisan proposals that are tough, fair, and practical have garnered support from across the ideological spectrum in Congress, as well as from President Bush and the current administration. Comprehensive immigration reform would clearly help us reduce our deficit and debt, and would do so without raising tax rates.

US economy largely unaffected by illegal immigration

WASHINGTON — A study released Wednesday concludes that illegal-immigrant workers do not drain jobs or tax dollars and have a neutral impact on the U.S. economy.
Because illegal immigrants occupy a small share of the work force — about 5 percent — and work low-skilled jobs at lower wages than other workers, their overall influence on the economy is trivial, according to the report, sponsored by the Migration Policy Institute, a pro-immigration think tank in Washington.
“The fate of the U.S. economy does not rest on what we do on illegal immigration,” said Gordon H. Hanson, author of the report and economics professor at the University of California-San Diego.
Illegal immigrants contribute a tiny 0.03 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product, with that gain going to employers who save money on cheap labor, the report says, while their cost to the economy is 0.10 percent of GDP, which mainly comes from public education and publicly funded emergency health care.
The net impact at minus 0.07 percent of GDP means that illegal immigrants have an essentially neutral effect on the economy, Hanson said.
The report does not factor in the spending or entrepreneurship that illegal immigrants contribute to the economy, said Marc Rosenblum, senior policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute.
Where illegal immigrants do have a substantial impact, Hanson added, is in specific labor-intensive and low-skilled industries such as agriculture, construction, hospitality and cleaning services, where the share of native-born workers has dropped precipitously.
Because the U.S. has dramatically raised the education level of its adult population in the last 50 years — going from about 50 percent of all working-age adults without a high school diploma in 1960 to just 8 percent today — the native-born, low-skilled work force has shrunk, while employers continue to require low-skilled workers.
This leaves room for illegal immigrants to take such jobs at a low cost, the report says.
Illegal immigrants now account for 20 percent of working-age adults in the U.S. who don’t have a high school degree.
While the influx of illegal immigrants is one of the factors keeping low-skilled wages stagnant, the biggest losers in the current system are legal low-wage workers, both native and foreign born, who compete with the illegal immigrants, Rosenblum said.
Meanwhile, employers reap higher profits because of lower labor costs and more productive businesses.
The solution to this imbalance, proposed by the Migration Policy Institute, is to provide more visas and legal channels for unskilled workers to enter the U.S.
Today, low-skilled workers must have a green card — effectively requiring them to have close family members in the U.S. — or obtain a temporary work visa.
“We really need to approach migration control comprehensively by both strengthening enforcements and creating legalization mechanisms that will control the unauthorized population and improve the economic outputs that we get from immigration,” Rosenblum said.

A “Double Fence” will make more difficult all diplomatic relationships with Mexico, and we have been business partners for a long time. The United States had promise to take illegal immigrants, then reject them for their prejudices. Who’s to blame?
Maybe it won’t be such a bad idea to have a “Double Fence” It’d keep criminals on the run in their own country and won’t come to Mexico.