Stephen Colbert: Child Immigration Influx Clearly Obama’s Plot to Tip Voting Scales
Obviously the tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors crossing the U.S. border after having journeyed all the way from Central America have been brought in by President Obama in hopes they'll grow up to vote him in again in a few years. That doesn't sound crazy at all, right?Obviously the tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors crossing the U.S. border after having journeyed all the way from Central America have been brought in by President Obama in hopes they’ll grow up to vote him in again in a few years. At least that’s what Texas Gov. Rick Perry would have us believe. That doesn’t sound crazy at all, right?
And don’t even get Stephen Colbert started on the fact that these children, being held in awful conditions in the U.S., are refusing to eat flour tortillas.
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