Speaking with Ben Shapiro on “The Ben Shapiro Show” on KTTH 770 AM Seattle, Rep. Michele Bachmann launched into the establishment Republican effort to push forward with immigration reform, labeling it a “political suicide mission.” Bachmann said, “It’s a terrible idea. We have about 7 million Americans that are looking for employment right now. Our problem is not a lack of workers to do jobs. You have many people who would love to work, but there just aren’t jobs. For us to have to open up our borders would change the dynamic of the U.S. forever.”
Bachmann also questioned why President Obama and the Democrats were so eager to grant legal status to millions of people living in the United States illegally, and suggested that political gain was at stake: “If these were conservative Republicans coming here illegally, the last thing Obama would do is seek to give amnesty, citizenship, and legal voting status to the people coming into the country. If you look at Hispanics today, 77 percent respond that they believe in big government and like big government. Fifty-five percent of Asians say they believe in big government, they like big government.”
She concluded, “From a political perspective, it’s a political suicide mission to be on the side of amnesty. Immigration isn’t wrong, it has to be done by the rule of law, and then assimilating them into our country.”
Asked about the motivation for Republicans who supported comprehensive immigration reform, she blamed the chummy relationship between the GOP and big business: “A lot of big businesses, including [Mark] Zuckerberg from Facebook and [Eric] Schmidt, the CEO at Google, and George Soros, they want a ready supply of cheap low cost labor; they want to increase the number of H-1B visas. And you have many multinational corporations where the corporations aren’t looking out for the nation’s best interests. These are globalists and globalists want open borders because they don’t have an identity with the U.S. Their main allegiance is to the dollar and the bottom line for their corporation. It doesn’t matter to them what the cost is to America.”