Bachmann: 50 percent of Mexico’s population has moved north of the border
Michele Bachmann is taking some flack for this Bill O’Reilly interview in which she raises no objections to the notion of "dragging [illegal immigrants] out, putting them on a bus with their children’s crying," but she also makes one whopper of a factual error: BACHMANN: Can I tell you why this is such a big problem? ...
Michele Bachmann is taking some flack for this Bill O'Reilly interview in which she raises no objections to the notion of "dragging [illegal immigrants] out, putting them on a bus with their children’s crying," but she also makes one whopper of a factual error:
Michele Bachmann is taking some flack for this Bill O’Reilly interview in which she raises no objections to the notion of "dragging [illegal immigrants] out, putting them on a bus with their children’s crying," but she also makes one whopper of a factual error:
BACHMANN: Can I tell you why this is such a big problem?
O’REILLY: No we know why it’s a problem.
BACHMANN: No let me tell you why. There was a column that came out this weekend by Mark Steyn, he said 50 percent of the population of Mexico has now gone north of the border, 50 percent of the population.
Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating
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