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Bachmann: I'll Finish the Border Fence

GOP candidate doubles down on illegal immigration

By Polly Davis Doig,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 16, 2011 8:25 AM CDT

(Newser) – She's not using John McCain's painfully forced "complete the danged fence" phrase, but Michele Bachmann is vowing to do just that. Yesterday the struggling Tea Party favorite signed a pledge to complete a double fence along the whole US-Mexico border by 2013, calling it "job No. 1," reports the Los Angeles Times. "And it will be every mile, it will be every yard, it will be every foot, it will be every inch of that border, because that portion you fail to secure is the highway into the United States."

Bachmann is so far the only candidate to sign the pledge of Americans for Securing the Border; she also indicated that she'd be willing to authorize federal agents to conduct raids in search of illegal immigrants. By doubling down on immigration, she turns the heat up on Rick Perry, whose longtime support of in-state tuition for illegals has proven less than popular among conservatives. Bachmann emphasized the national security aspect of the border, saying, "Fifty-nine thousand this year came across the border … from Yemen , from Syria. These are nations that are state sponsors of terror. They're coming into our country." Only Syria is among the four nations the US lists as state sponsors of terror, notes the Times.

Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann has signed a pledge to finish the US-Mexico border fence by 2013.
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann has signed a pledge to finish the US-Mexico border fence by 2013.   (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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DaveFrancis
Oct 17, 2011 1:23 PM CDT
TODAY!  NOW! Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) needs your help, to SAVE YOUR JOBS.   Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith needs your help immediately if we are going to get a House floor vote this year on H.R. 2885, the Legal Workforce Act.   Whoever becomes the President of the United States needs to erect the real border fence. To facilitate the policy described in the 2006 Secure Fence Act, which is a double-layer fence for the two thousand miles, stretching through California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas festooned with razor sharp concertina wire. As an major addition placing a permanent military force on the border, to bond with the U.S. Border Agents; a requirement to assist border sheriffs, who are fighting a never ending battle against drug smugglers and people traffickers. In furtherance, the police need tools for domestic enforcement, so they can be partnered with ICE. "Secure Communities" helps the local police to identify criminal illegal aliens through fingerprints, by forwarding this identification to ICE. The 287 G is another policing program, which offers federal training in apprehending illegal aliens on the highway, such as State Troopers or Highway Patrol, who have the authority to arrest a suspicious driver and hold him for ICE agents. By far the greatest innovation is the "THE LEGAL WORKFORCE ACT” sponsored by Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas. Every working American should demand from their Senators and the House Representatives, to vote for this bill. Commonly known as E-Verify (H.R. 2885) it will reduce the chances of millions of illegal migrants or immigrants from being hired. Unless you have a upper management job, everybody is vulnerable from a job loss. If you are lucky to have a job, you can aid the 20 million workers who are seeking employment. Under E-Verify bill business owners are not excused from severe punishment by hiring people of unauthorized status. If you want to convey to a halt the DREAM ACT’s, Sanctuary Cities & States or a new Amnesty—YOU MUST DEMAND YOUR LAWMAKERS BRING TO THE HOUSE FLOOR--E-Verify (H.R. 2885) Illegal immigration is no longer a minor occurrence, it’s everybody’s problem. This issue is a hundred billion dollar cost every year, extorted from your taxes annually to subsidize foreign nationals who have violated our laws. These are the pregnant women with unborn babies, who navigate past our border fence, or use the airways to enter illegally.  While Americans are paying for other countries downtrodden, we cannot resuscitate our eroding infrastructure, our children’s crowded schools, underfunded hospitals and overpopulated prisons through the affliction of 20 million or more illegal aliens. The expenditure annually is an estimated $113 Billion dollars a year, as according to statistics from the Hermitage Foundation.     E-Verify is a progressive computer program and is being continuously upgraded with more innovations to detect forged ID. In conjunction with form I-9 is progression will soon be a 100 percent successful in verifying who’s eligible for a job. One new piece of software soon to be fully organized is state access to Drivers License records. Mississippi was the first state to offer there Dept of Motor vehicle services.   ILLEGAL—IMMIGRATION—MUST—BE—MADE—A—FELONY.   Whoever becomes the Next President of the United States, will have to face the Illegal Immigration plague. Contenders Bachmann, Cain, Romney, Perry are debating illegal immigration, that has shot to the forefront of issues, because it involves jobs, economy and National Security. NumbersUSA, the pro sovereignty, limited immigration group has aided a host of a dozen county sheriffs this week in Washington to make their pleas to Congress and ICE, in favor of all sheriffs to get more federal support in battling illegal immigration in their counties. Local and border Sheriffs are telling their stories of being over-run with trans-national drug trafficking, smuggling operations, Mexican cartels and other immigration-related crime were gripping -- and also enraging that our own federal government who are so concerned about helping illegal aliens, while displaying so little enthusiasm in helping the sheriffs. Pressure your U.S. Representative to act to get a committee and floor vote on the CLEAR Act (H.R. 100). This act provides a lot of assistance to local, county and state law enforcement when they want to drive the illegal alien population out of their jurisdictions. Go to your customized website where you will locate a free fax to send to your U.S. Representative. Most of you will find a free fax that urges co-sponsorship of the bill. The beauty of the CLEAR Act is that it essentially requires the feds to cooperate whenever community law enforcement brings illegal aliens to their attention. While it wouldn't stop localities from being sanctuaries or offering other enticements for illegal aliens, it would stop the current Administration's practice of trying to stop localities from pushing illegal aliens out of their communities and would require the feds to give assistance. I cannot think of any single action that would be a more effective protest against the Obama Administration's anti-local-enforcement efforts or a more effective single action to help our nation's besieged sheriffs who have tended to be our best allies among the nation's law enforcement officials.  If you want to fax, go to NumbersUSA or please call 202-224-3121 and ask for your U.S. Representative's office to urge action this fall on the CLEAR Act. This is the same Washington switchboard number to insist that your local or federal politician to push a vote on the "THE LEGAL WORKFORCE ACT”. Contact Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH); House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA); House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) ; House Chairman of Ways & Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI);    Other Members of the Ways & Means Committee to phone or fax for free.   NEBRASKA, Rep. Berg, Rick (GOP) (202-225-2611) ; NEBRASKA, Rep. Smith, Adrian (GOP) (202-225-6435); LOUISIANA, Rep. Boustany, Charles (GOP) (202-225-2031); MICHIGAN, Rep. Camp, Dave (GOP) (202-225-3561) & (202-225-2031); KENTUCKY, Rep. Davis, Geoff (GOP) (202-225-3465); PENNSYLVANIA, Rep. Gerlach, Jim (GOP)(202-225-4315); KANSAS, Rep. Jenkins, Lynn (GOP)(202-225-6601); MINNESOTA, Rep. Paulsen, Erik (GOP)(202-225-2871); WASHINGTON, Rep. Reichert, Dave (GOP) (202-225-7761); WISCONSIN, Rep. Ryan, Paul (GOP) (202-225-3031)    Tell these unwilling lawmakers that you are a voter and that they will be hearing from you in 2012.   NO COPYRIGHT!  DISTRIBUTE FREELY EVERY TO AMERICAN & LEGAL RESIDENT. KEEP WATCHFUL AS ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE VOTED IN OUR “CITIZENS” ONLY ELECTIONS. ACORN, CANVASSING AGENCY IS NOT DEAD, AND THEY WERE CAUGHT FILING VOTER FRAUDULENT REGISTRATIONS. THIS 2012 ELECTION IS CRITICAL TO OUR FUTURE.   One Old Vet saying, “Stand next to me and you’ll never stand alone.”   Remember—Don’t Steal. The Government doesn’t like competition.
my-name-here
Oct 16, 2011 10:26 PM CDT
Yeah, walls between countries are really effective...
Homelander
Oct 16, 2011 6:06 PM CDT
With what, your good looks?  What part of "we're broke" don't you understand?  Pledge to make sense/cents.

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