Updated: Michele Bachmann’s Great Idea For Refugee Children: Labor Camps
Bachmann is calling on President Obama to help push forward a bipartisan effort to see her idea can come to fruition.
KCTV reports:
…Send those children to labor camps, which she warmly refers to as “Americanization Facilities,” with the goal of having them pay off their past, present, and future care expenses, while assimilating them into American culture. And in exchange for that labor, the children would be fast-tracked on a path to citizenship.
During an interview with Minnesota’s Twin Cities News Talk, Bachmann revealed her plan while addressing the border crisis. “I’m calling on all of us, Obama and Congress and everyone, to chip in and build special new facilities… `Americanization’ facilities, if you will. And we’d send these kids to these facilities, in Arizona and Texas and wherever else. And we’d get private sector business leaders to locate to those facilities and give these children low-risk jobs to do. And they’d learn about the American way of life, earn their keep, and everyone wins in the end.”
Conservative radio host Jason Lewis asked Bachmann about the camps, and what life might be like for the children sent to them. “Well, we’d of course want these facilities to be ideal, you know, for the children to work and learn. They’d spend half of their day working, and the other half learning what every child should learn, and that’s English, you know, English and American history. And as soon as they learn English with some degree of fluency, they can attend local schools, maybe with a voucher program, or something like that. And then they could work when they aren’t in school.”
“I think this is a great way to bring businesses into the Texas and Arizona areas, and maybe other states struggling with low employment opportunities, thanks mostly to Obama’s policies,” Bachmann continued. “Once these kids grow up, they’d leave a big gap of new job opportunities, and that’s what this is all about. It’s about opportunity, not just for these kids but for the American people. It helps the businesses, and if we can raise fifty-thousand God-fearing, English-speaking Americans, who understand real American values, then I’d say it’s a job well done.”
(My bold, because OMG)
Karoli at Crooks And Liars notes, “With compassion like that, who needs beatings?”
While Bachmann vilifies the president’s policies, she inadvertently displays why he won the election handily and even though she was endorsed by her God, she is not sitting in the Oval Office.
Update:
My friend Tommy in the comments tells us that the linked source is satire. FFS, I can’t tell anymore. We apologize for the error.
H/T: Crooks And Liars
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158 responses to Updated: Michele Bachmann’s Great Idea For Refugee Children: Labor Camps
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zane1 July 27th, 2014 at 21:03
There is always one mrsg.
fancypants July 27th, 2014 at 21:14
…Send those children to labor camps, which she warmly refers to as “Americanization Facilities,” with the goal of having them pay off their past, present, and future care expenses, while assimilating them into American culture. And in exchange for that labor, the children would be fast-tracked on a path to citizenship
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Now I FEEL CHEATED Ive worked for a lot of people who have supported her ideas and it got me nowhere
fancypants July 27th, 2014 at 21:14
…Send those children to labor camps, which she warmly refers to as “Americanization Facilities,” with the goal of having them pay off their past, present, and future care expenses, while assimilating them into American culture. And in exchange for that labor, the children would be fast-tracked on a path to citizenship
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Now I FEEL CHEATED Ive worked for a lot of people who have supported her ideas and it got me nowhere
Foundryman July 27th, 2014 at 21:34
Have to wonder whether this story isn’t faked too….
http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2014/07/27/3464600/george-will-unaccompanied-children/
Foundryman July 27th, 2014 at 21:34
Have to wonder whether this story isn’t faked too….
http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2014/07/27/3464600/george-will-unaccompanied-children/
Should do what the right does and just keep telling the lie over and over…sooner or later it has to become the truth!
Red Eye Robot July 27th, 2014 at 21:59
Not shocked, everything on think progress is fake
Red Eye Robot July 27th, 2014 at 21:59
Not shocked, everything on think progress is fake
LiberalMD July 28th, 2014 at 00:40
I knew the story was fake. After all, there aren’t many Republicans in Congress who know about work/labor.
LiberalMD July 28th, 2014 at 00:40
I knew the story was fake. After all, there aren’t many Republicans in Congress who know about work/labor.
ChrisVosburg July 28th, 2014 at 19:12
Well, that’s odd. KCTV7 appears to be simply a news aggregator with not particularly good bullshit detectors. A lot of the content is unremarkable stuff like an amber alert for a local kid, or notes of progress in research for a cure for HIV, but then there’s also crap like the Michele Bachmann piece, or that nonsense story from a week or so ago about Obama handing out EBT cards to illegal immigrants and busing them to Walmart.
Couple things: They seem to have lifted the National Report piece in its entirety, without attribution, but do include a link to Twin Cities News Talk, which is a real thing, and might have a problem with this, and Jason Lewis, who is a real person, and might as well.
And as pointed, out there is a actual news station which is KCTV5, which might have a problem with the KCTV7 site name. So, cease and desist demands may fly soon.
Anyhoo, we got punked, silly us.
No, “sounds like something she’d say” won’t fly, ’cause that’s just what all the righties say when they get punked by outlandish fake news about something Obama is supposed to have done.
ChrisVosburg July 28th, 2014 at 19:12
Well, that’s odd. KCTV7 appears to be simply a news aggregator with not particularly good bullshit detectors. A lot of the content is unremarkable stuff like an amber alert for a local kid, or notes of progress in research for a cure for HIV, but then there’s also crap like the Michele Bachmann piece, or that nonsense story from a week or so ago about Obama handing out EBT cards to illegal immigrants and busing them to Walmart.
Couple things: They seem to have lifted the National Report piece in its entirety, without attribution, but do include a link to Twin Cities News Talk, which is a real thing, and might have a problem with this, and Jason Lewis, who is a real person, and might as well.
And as pointed, out there is a actual news station which is KCTV5, which might have a problem with the KCTV7 site name. So, cease and desist demands may fly soon.
Anyhoo, we got punked, silly us.
No, “sounds like something she’d say” won’t fly, ’cause that’s just what all the righties say when they get punked by outlandish fake news about something Obama is supposed to have done.
Laura Flannery July 29th, 2014 at 00:35
This story is a FAKE Alan. They had to issue a correction at Think progress YESTERDAY. Whose the idiot now, Alan?????
Laura Flannery July 29th, 2014 at 00:35
This story is a FAKE Alan. They had to issue a correction at Think progress YESTERDAY. Whose the idiot now, Alan?????