·
What she's saying; "Perry was the first
governor in America to give in-state tuition benefits to illegal immigrants and
said to America that if you disagree... You don't have a heart," Bachmann
wrote in a fundraising email over the weekend, according to the Huffington Post.
"For too long, Washington has turned a blind eye to immigration and as
President I will put an end to that."
What
she isn't telling.....is the truth about her support for a similar bill. Again
she spins to suit her at the time..
· " It turns out that Bachmann voted for
a similar measure in 2005 while serving in the Minnesota Senate. The language,
which was included in a larger higher education funding bill, would have
allowed students who had attended a Minnesota high school for three years or
more, had graduated and had enrolled in public Minnesota college to pay
in-state tuition. During debate of the bill, Bachmann spoke in support of an
amendment that would have required such students to be legal residents as well.
"Is
citizenship a privilege, or is it a right?" she asked on May 5, 2005, the
day the chamber debated the bill. "It seems like the understanding we've
always had in this nation is that citizenship is a privilege for those who are
not born in this nation... This [bill] is affirmatively having our state make a
new decision about citizenship. And really by doing this, we are answering that
citizenship is now a right as opposed to a privilege."
She
voted
for the amendment, which failed.
But when it came time to vote on final school funding
bill, Bachmann was one of 63 senators who voted in favor of the legislation;
three lawmakers, including two Republicans, opposed the bill. Later that day,
the Senate replaced the House's bill - which did not include the tuition language
- with its version of the legislation; again Bachmann voted in favor of the
bill. Ultimately, the language was stripped in conference committee, so it
never became law.
The following year, Bachmann voted
against another bill that would have allowed undocumented students to get
in-state tuition. It seems like clothes hanging on the line, Bachmann blows
with the wind.
Bachmann
statement she would build a fence on every inch of the border when slamming
Perry's logical stance that it's not feasible or economical to think you can
build a fence along the border,
shows
her ignorance for the southern border and the topography.
Source: Michele Bachmann
Hat Tip: SB
Source: Michele Bachmann
Hat Tip: SB
