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March 31, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 31, 2006, Friday, Hour #3
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Greetings, folks.
Greetings.
Welcome back.
Great to have you.
More fun than a human being should be allowed to have of the fastest three hours in media.
It is Friday.
Let's go.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open live Friday.
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Go for it.
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Funny story here.
Where's this from?
This is, well, it's the Sun News.
I don't know, the LC Sun News.
have no clue where this is from i don't know what the no it's the It's funny.
I just don't.
I'm sorry.
I don't remember the website.
But it's about a 64-year-old matchmaker, a controversial matchmaker.
His name is Ivan Thompson, the self-proclaimed cowboy Cupid.
Have you heard about this guy?
You wait to hear this.
If you mention this guy's name around the wrong women, you are bound to raise their hackles.
This is a weathered 64-year-old matchmaker.
He has his share of critics who decry him as a woman peddler who takes advantage of disadvantaged Mexican women and has no respect for the gals in his own country.
This story, by the way, written by a woman, Amanda Husson, H-U-S-S-O-N.
But Ivan Thompson views himself as a businessman who saw a need and offered a service.
He says, I like putting two lonely people together.
The men are lonely.
The women, well, some of them are lonely too.
For 17 years, Tom Thompson has operated his one-man wife-finding business.
It's called Thompson ⁇ Associates.
He operates out of Columbus and Anthony, New Mexico.
Columbus, what?
I wish I knew.
I wish I could remember where this is from.
At any rate, it doesn't matter.
For $3,000, what he does is take an eligible bachelor across the border into central Mexico, where he advertises on the radio and in the newspaper for potential partners.
Then he and his client wait in a hotel room for the phone to start ringing.
It always does.
Thompson introduces the men to the local ladies who respond, but then the customers are on their own.
He said he expects the men to follow up and develop a relationship with the women without his help.
Thompson said the idea came to him when he found himself divorced and lonely after 17 and a half years of marriage.
His first wife was an American woman with whom, although they spoke the same language, he had trouble communicating.
In his words, she spoke perfect English and I never could understand her.
He was running a horse ranch in Anthony.
He took out a newspaper ad in a Mexican paper seeking a wife.
When he got 80 responses from young, attractive women, he realized he'd hit the jackpot.
And if it could work for him, it could work for other men too.
But his happy ending didn't last forever, though.
After nine years, his second wife got Americanized.
She wanted to be the boss of everything, he said, so they got a divorce.
Looking back on his relationship and the hundreds that he has helped create, Thompson said he feels he might not have had a realistic idea of what a Mexican housewife would be.
Well, I don't know.
I don't think I'm doing men as big a favor as I first thought, he said.
I don't think the Mexican women turned out to be what I thought they were.
The men who think these Mexican women are docile, scared little things must have been smoking their socks.
Now, I think he hit the jackpot earlier in the article when he says that he got Americanized.
Somehow, despite unrealistic expectations like a language barrier, cultural differences, and even an international border, the majority of Thompson's matches remain successful.
He estimates that at least 25% of marriages he's helped along have ended in divorce.
According to a Census Bureau study, about 40% of first marriages in the U.S. end in divorce.
His rate is much better.
The quirky business has drawn him into the national media spotlight.
He's been featured in regional newspapers.
He's made appearances on TV programs like Extra and A Current Affair.
Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Michelle O'Han heard Thompson being interviewed on NPR, was drawn to his story.
So you're going to be hearing more and more about this guy, but his name is Ivan Thompson.
Ivan Thompson.
He says he's now starting to get hate mails.
He's received more than a few angry letters about his matchmaking business accusing him of exploiting the women he fixes up and enabling men to take advantage of women who might be less likely to report situations of abuse to the authorities.
Now, who do you think is out there making those assumptions?
This has to be the militant feminists who think all men are predators and this is just an organization or a business set up by a guy to help men abuse women.
I mean, the natural thing that they first assume.
He said it's not responsible.
It's not his responsibility, rather, to make sure the men are safe to marry any more than it's the priest or justice of the peace's job to screen couples before getting married.
That being said, he doesn't just take every man that comes to him on the trip.
I don't want to introduce these women to bad guys or these men to bad women.
I try to eliminate the horses' asses, and if I think somebody's bad, I'm not going to take them.
He's getting hate mail, and he actually says he likes it.
In his self-published book, Cowboy Cupid, Mail Order Brides, and Other Tales from the Desert Southwest, he thanks his detractors in the opening pages.
This is what he says.
This book is dedicated to the women's libraries and the Rush Limbaugh feminazis who made a business like this possible.
Thanks.
I love you gals, the passage states.
That's what makes him mad.
He's got to find these guys have to go to a different country to find somebody decent to marry in their minds because American women just don't seem to fit the bill anymore.
Because this is his version of saying how it is that too many women, men too, have been feminized in this country.
The men that refuse to be feminized are indeed encountering those kinds of problems.
I hear about it every day out there.
Port deal news, ladies and gentlemen.
Bills that aim to improve the security of the nation's ports and other key infrastructure advanced in both the House and Senate yesterday, weeks after public uproar scuttled the Dubai port deal.
The Senate Banking and Housing Urban Affairs Committee yesterday approved by a vote of 20 to nothing, a bill that would reform the interagency panel charged with approving such foreign deals, forcing more thorough investigations and congressional involvement.
Richard Shelby, the committee chairman, Alabama Republican, said Congress and the American people require greater confidence in the process.
Now, under Mr. Shelby's bipartisan bill, deals would go through the 30-day review to determine whether they merit a longer investigation, and any CFIUS member could request more time to decide.
The 45-day investigation would be required if a deal involves a foreign government-owned company and critical U.S. infrastructures such as ports that could affect national security.
Isn't it amazing how fast these guys can act on the port deal?
20 to nothing votes.
Get the news out every day of how much they're doing.
We ought to keep them American people informed on just how responsible we are.
We're going to make sure that we don't have any problems at our ports.
We're going to make sure that no United Arab Emirates, it's not going to happen again.
Not on our watch, folks.
We heard you.
Still, still, not one person other than me has raised the red flag about George Mason University.
They have a campus in the United Arab Emirates.
You know.
You know how that could expose us, increase our vulnerability, make us even bigger targets.
And yet nobody says a thing.
Nobody cares.
Nobody but me.
In fact, George Mason, sentimental favorite now.
Final four this weekend.
Satellite campus in Dubai.
I know.
I know.
Who'd you say?
Oh, okay.
Have you seen Cynthia McKinney skipped her own press conference?
I've got a story about Cynthia McKinney in the stack here, and it looks to me like she's trying to look like Oprah.
If it's a recent picture.
So, Cynthia McKinney skips her own press conference.
Well, probably because she tried to hide from the cops to issue the arrest warrant.
I mean, it'd be easy to find her if she shows up at the press conference.
George in Detroit, welcome, sir, to the program.
Great to have you with us.
Infinite Dittos, Rush.
Thank you, sir.
I was curious to find out if the Ports deal has made enough of a stink to get its own update, kind of like the Feminazi or the Corbasms.
And if not, what criteria would it take to reach that status?
Well, it's reached.
There's no question that the port deal has achieved the height necessary to become, we threw it in a hopper being potential update.
But, you know, the program changes over the course of years, and I just always have followed my instincts.
And as you know, most of the updates we do these days are retro.
We go back to the archives, and I fully expect them to surface, resurface, but it'll happen not when I force it to.
It'll just happen because the creative juices and instincts say take it that way.
In fact, this is interesting.
I've had might have been the same guy a couple emails today on the listener comment line at the website.
Come on, you talk about the port deal enough.
There's got to be an update theme out there for it.
There's got to be good music for it.
It probably is.
I just haven't oriented myself in that direction where this is concerned.
But if I could find the right tune, find the right update theme, it would just irritate everybody on this, then I will officially proclaim the ports deal to have update status.
Stan in Chicago, your next on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Rosh, Hunker Bern and Dittos.
Thank you.
I was joking with your call screener that it sounded like you were sucking up to those guys on 24 yesterday, but have they approached you with doing an episode or have you approached them for doing an episode?
Here's what happened.
It sounded like I'm sucking up to the 24 guys.
It's the other way around.
They're sucking up to me to appear on this show.
Actually, you know what?
I think you should do it if they offered it to you.
The ratings.
Well, let me tell you what happened.
I didn't discuss this.
Didn't go into too much detail.
But cigar dinner in New York on Tuesday night, the 24 guys were our honored guests.
And I'm only kidding about them sucking up.
I was just, I'm telling you, the guardrails are pretty wide here today, folks, because I am running out of fumes.
If I get out of this show today still on the air, it will be a major triumph of professionalism.
And not judgment and good sense.
So what happened is this.
There are honored guests at the cigar dinner.
And during the dinner, there's an auction.
We don't wait till after dinner because it'll go all night.
So the first thing we do, we always auction nine or ten bottles of wine, Magnums or Jeroboams of wine.
And the rule is that if you buy it, you have to serve it to your table that night.
You don't get to take it home.
So I always buy the first bottle.
It's become a tradition.
It's not rigged.
I just bid what it takes to get it.
And that also sets the tone for the bottles that follow.
We raise a lot of money for Prostate Cancer Foundation.
So during the course of the auction, we always get to Marvin's mystery box, Marvin Shankin.
And it's a beautiful cigar humidor, but he won't tell you what's in it.
Won't tell you what's in it.
Well, they drop some hints along the way.
Like, for example, this year, as last, there's a winning ticket from some Las Vegas sports book for every NFL team to win the Super Bowl at current odds.
Like I got the box last year.
In fact, Michael Jordan and I both got the.
We both wanted it so bad that Marvin said, if you guys will both buy it, I'll put two boxes together, identical contents.
That's what he did.
And I don't know what the Steelers are.
I've got to turn my ticket in from last year's mystery box.
I know right what it is.
I keep it in the humidor at home.
So during the mystery box, this always happens.
Marvin approaches guests and said, come on, X, throw something, because General Motors, throw in an escalade, throw it, and most of the time it happens.
So during the auction of the mystery box, Marvin looked at Joel sort of, Joel, throw in a walk-on roll.
Put it up for $100,000 and put it in a walk-on roll.
Well, by the time it was over, Joel had offered three walk-on rolls.
And the three walk-on rolls were purchased by me, Rudy Giuliani, and Marvin bought one for his daughter.
So on the flight down here on Wednesday afternoon, actually, Wednesday morning, we were flying down here from New York.
And I told Joe, I said, Joel, you know, I was just contributing to the charity.
I don't.
No, no, no.
I don't care to be on your show.
I didn't do it.
He said, no, no, I've already got great plans.
I've already been thinking about you and Rudy are going to be sinister funders of terrorism.
Now, that won't happen, but this is the devious way his mind's.
But it's just a walk-on roll.
I would never be offered anything other than that.
And nobody else would either.
I mean, that's not, these guys, they run a business.
McCain had a walk-on roll this year, but unless you knew it was coming, you didn't see it.
I mean, he was just on there for a split second.
He was delivering papers to President What's his face?
No, he was not an illegal alien.
Well, we don't know if he was an illegal alien or not.
He was supposedly on the White House staff.
That's the next thing to happen.
You know, we're going to end up with an illegal alien in the White House staff somewhere in some congressional office or some Senate office.
You wait, it'll happen.
We've already had these guys be embarrassed by hiring illegals as nannies.
Zoe Baird, ring a bell.
So it'll happen when they shoot next season because they've got three weeks to go.
Well, three or four weeks of shooting left, they said yesterday.
This season is already written.
So it'll happen in the next season.
But it'll be fun.
This is what it's just a fun, fun night.
And Michael Milken is there.
Cap Cure Foundation, well, Prostate Cancer Foundation, he now calls it, is his, and he matches everything that's raised every year.
And it's like $1.2 million he matched this year.
Here's Todd in Charleston, South Carolina.
Welcome, sir, to the program.
Nice to have you with us.
Well, mega dittos, Rush.
Thank you very much.
You bet.
My pleasure.
Thank you.
I got to disagree with you that the root cause of a lot of these guys going with the male-order bride is feminism.
I think in the United States of America, there are a lot of guys out there, and you know how tough marriage is, Rush.
I mean, it's tough.
You've got to work at it.
It's hard work every day.
And there's a lot of guys who are copping out.
And they're leaving their wives and their children, and they're running off, taking an easy route, taking a male-order bride out of bone crunching poverty at a foreign country.
And this girl will do anything for the money she can get coming to America, marriage, the average guy.
So, okay, so 25% of these marriages may fail, and that may beat the national average, but who wouldn't stay in a marriage coming out of that kind of poverty?
And the ones that do leave finally figure out that they get their American rights, their American citizenship, and they realize that they don't have to hang around with this jerk.
So you're saying that these marriage are basic marriages are basically loveless, that they're economic circumstances.
And I think I hear what you're saying.
You're saying these guys are losers anyway, one way or the other.
They either can't stay married, don't know how, or they don't want to work hard enough at being a good mate.
So they wind up, they go down and they find somebody can't even speak the English, basically try to find a slave or a geisha type, and just marry them because they're no challenge.
And so they don't understand a language.
They can't talk back to you.
And they're basically just cowards and losers.
Is that what you're saying?
That's what I'm saying.
I'm saying it's a real shame that a guy who runs a business like that gets all the notoriety that he's going to get that you mentioned earlier.
You're going to be kidding.
With as many people doing as many crazy things, he's putting people together, and most of his marriages last.
You just think that they're not legitimate because you think there's no love involved.
You think these poor Mexican women are marrying up.
I mean, they're the real definition of marrying up here, and they'll stick with these loser guys just for the money.
Well, I tell you, I got a good friend who's been in counseling for a couple of years now.
Ten years ago, he married a male-order bride out of Russia.
A year after she got here, she took a lover, and we just proved recently that that guy moved to three different cities when they moved.
Well, hell.
Women are a roll of dice no matter where you find them.
I mean, you find them.
You know, are you married?
Yes, I am.
Well, you know, Russia, China, Mexico, it doesn't matter where you find them.
It's always going to be a roll of dice.
You know, it might have been your buddy's fault that she's running around taking a lover after a year.
Hell, we don't know.
She might have gotten, yeah, and they can talk back, too.
It's called a frying pan.
By the way, folks, you know, daylight saving time starts this weekend, Saturday night.
Go to bed, move the clock up an hour.
I love daylight saving time.
They've extended it a month this year.
The new energy bill last year.
Daylight saving time normally ends the last weekend in October, but it's the last weekend in November this year that daylight saving time will end.
And that matters, people like me, because I need all the sunlight I can get after work in the wintertime to go out there and play golf.
It doesn't save energy.
It's supposedly to save energy by, you won't need your furnace or heating oil on because you turn it down when you sleep.
Most people go to bed, they turn the thermostat down because you're under the covers, betwixt and between the sheets, got the big throw on there.
And most people are with somebody.
And so you create a little warmth, a little heat.
And so you have it.
So you be able to keep the thermostat lowered during the day too because the sun's up longer in the time you're awake and functioning, supposedly keeping the day warmer.
And so that's the theory behind it.
You know, the reason they don't do this year-round is because the sun would come up so late in the morning in some parts of the country that our children would be going to school in the dark, making them think they're even sleepier than they otherwise are.
So it just can't be done.
These little crumb crunchers crossing the street there in the dark are waiting for the school bus to come along.
And that's why they're taking a risk doing it through November.
But don't forget that I'll remind you when November comes around.
This is Mansoor in Kansas City, Missouri.
Hi, Mansoor.
Thanks for waiting.
Thank you for taking my car rush.
I think an amnesty should be given, but it should be given to the employers for at least one year so they can clean up their act and give them a chance to start hiring legal employees.
That's actually not a bad thing.
Now, that is one of the first sensible ideas I've heard about this.
Well, I have the other part of it would be as far as the guest worker program is the same employers who are hiring the illegal aliens should give them some sort of affidavit that these folks can take back to their original home countries and apply for a guest worker program through the United States Embassy, let's say, Mexico and El Salvador or whatever.
That way, they can really do a background check to find out if these folks are.
Yeah, I understand.
The problem is that with that aspect, that's one of the so-called reality problems is that even if you grant the businesses a one-year amnesty to straighten their houses out, get them an order, you're still going to be telling all these illegals they've got to leave.
And because if after one year of amnesty, they cannot legally be hired, they have to go home.
Some of them will.
We don't know how many won't, but the whole process then starts repeating itself because they go down there and they find out it's going to take years and years and years to get in legally in the guest worker program.
And then they stay down there because they're not going to be able to be hired legally in the United States.
And then what you're going to have, nobody has thought of this.
I'm going to run this thought by you, Mansoor.
In one aspect of this, let's say that we do have, I've heard numbers, 11 to 12 million illegals.
I've heard all the way up to 20.
Whatever the range is, do you think it makes sense to say that because we have allowed these illegal immigrants into our country that we have maybe saved Mexico from a revolution?
Well, that possibly, that may be, but the problem here is that, you know, like in my business in Kansas City.
What is your business, Monsieur?
Well, I do rely on a lot of Hispanics, and I used to have a lot of illegal aliens working for me.
But through a self-audit, we got rid of all of them, and with the help of the Department of Homeland Security.
So this crap that everybody tells you that this country is going to go down the drain is invalid.
No, everybody knows that, too.
This is just people exercising their own self-interest.
You have cheap labor, you want to keep cheap labor.
Well, exactly.
An employer is trying to circumvent the law by not paying taxes, and their business strategy is to pay somebody $7.50 an hour, knowing very well that person is not legal.
And then they complain and boo-hooha that I can't find help.
Well, crap, of course you can't find help because that's your plan.
And they pay him cash and they pay them under the table, and it's just not right.
But If you provide a guest worker program, if the same employees give this folks a letter and say, okay, if you come back, I have a job for you, then maybe they can get processed in Mexico City and they can come back and work and get the money and go back home as much as they want.
Just an idea.
I printed a story today from a blog.
And as soon as it loads, I'm going to print it out to you.
I learned some things.
It's called, by the way, Montserrat, I want you to keep the radio and listen to this.
It's called 13 Frequently Asked Questions about Illegal Immigration.
And one of the, in answering one of the 13 questions, the people that put this together provided information that I didn't know.
And it will, I don't know, some of you may know it.
If you don't, it will shock you.
Yeah, but his website's having trouble loading up there, but give it, let me recycle, see if I can.
See if I can remember it.
Something like this.
One example involved the meatpacking business in Nebraska.
And I forget the other one.
The meat packing business in Nebraska, what was happening was that INS agents were tracking down, they had a system.
They developed a system to find all of the illegal immigrants that were being hired in the meatpacking industry in Nebraska.
And they did sweeps every two or three months.
And after two or three of these sweeps, they had identified and found 4,000 illegal immigrants.
And they forced the meat packing companies in Nebraska to fire them.
And the execs at the meatpacking industry, various companies, called their congressmen.
And the congressman called the INS.
And the INS commissioner was told to resign and to go quietly, which he did.
And basically, INS has been told by members of Congress to stand down and not enforce the law.
A law that Congress passed.
Oftentimes, members of Congress, members of the Senate, are calling the INS on behalf of constituents to say, don't enforce this law.
There are a couple other examples of it, too.
I'm having trouble having that website print out, but if I can get that happen during the next break, I'll share it with you.
We got some audio soundbites.
Since we're back on immigration as a subject, let's grab number three.
This morning on CNN, reporter John King played a portion of his interview with New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg.
King said, how do you get somebody of the President McCain Kennedy persuasion at the table, somebody the Tom Tancredo Lou Dobbs persuasion who says, no, that's amnesty.
They came into the country illegally.
Any status you give them is rewarding lawbreaking.
What do you say about this?
It may very well be rewarding lawbreaking, but let's get real.
I mean, you know, we don't live in a perfect world.
And we don't, at least mayors don't have the luxury of pontificating without any consequences for what they say.
My fundamental belief is you're not going to deport 12 million people.
Guest worker programs and temporary things are ridiculous.
These people are going to be here permanently.
Let's recognize it and get on with it.
Right, which is basically just make them legal and move on with it because we can't do anything about it where we are now.
Last night on CNN, a situation rumored, Wolf Blitzery, talking to Senator McCain, said, we saw some dramatic pictures, thousands and thousands of people in Phoenix marching to oppose your colleague, Senator John Kyle, and his stance, which is very different than your stance.
I take it you were with the protesters as opposed to being with Senator Kyle on this issue.
One of the things that's interesting about those protesters, Wolf, is that so many of them, as you'll notice from the pictures, were young.
And that's because many of them, parents and grandparents, came here illegally.
They are citizens.
They have all the rights of a citizen because they were born here.
But they're very concerned about their parents or their grandparents being sent back to the country and place that they came from.
That's very disturbing to them.
And when you look at it from their point of view, it's understandable.
It's interesting whose point of view he finds understandable now and then.
Your view is not.
The majority view of this country is not understandable, and we shouldn't.
But these kids who are out there flying the Mexican flag while trying to defend the rights of their parents, you've got to be able to understand that, be able to relate to it.
I'm going to tell you, broken record time, sorry, but you know what this is?
You look at the length of time involved here in the McCain-Kennedy bill.
And I hope you heard the first hour of the program right.
I gave you some shocking news about who is doing the reforming of illegal immigration now and who started this whole mess back in 1965.
It's Senator Kennedy.
And he was instrumental in moving a bill back in 1965.
And it'll be on the website when we update it this afternoon.
And all the things that he promises that will not happen have happened in spades in droves.
And my point was, if you're going to fix a problem, you've got to identify what the problem is.
You're going to reform it.
You've got to be honest.
Okay, what's the problem?
And then, if you're going to reform it, you've got to figure out who screwed it up in the first place so they don't get a chance to have at it again.
Well, we're blowing it on both counts.
We're not looking at what happened in 1965 or in 86.
And we're ignoring the fact that the people involved in 1965, basically Senator Kennedy, he's been in the Senate 44 years.
I know it seems longer, but it's only been 44 years.
Senator Kennedy is not the guy to be leading reform, and yet that's who's partnered up with McCain on this bill.
And it's just, you know, the fear they all have is that after 10 years, all of these 10 to 11, 12, whatever it is, million illegals will have become citizens and will have registered to vote.
And they see a giant voting block out there, and they're just afraid to offend them, to make them mad.
And that's why there's no enforcement.
And that's why there won't be any enforcement on this.
You wait and see.
Back right after this.
Stay with us.
All right, that webpage finally loaded.
And I was able to print the relevant passage.
The webpage is a blog called Right-Wing News.
And it's 13 frequently asked questions about illegal immigration.
It's question three.
So if the American people oppose illegal immigration, why does Congress seem so reluctant to do anything about it?
Let me cut to the relevant paragraph provided by Mark Krikorian, who's a blogger.
In 1998, the Border Patrol noticed that the workforce picking onions in the Vidalia onion fields of Georgia appeared increasingly to be illegal, so they did some raids.
They arrested a few dozen illegal aliens, and all the rest of them ran off.
So the farmers there were stuck with onions in the ground and no one to pull them out.
It was all their own fault.
They knew what they were doing, but nonetheless, they were outraged.
They called their congressmen.
And by the end of the week, three of Georgia's congressmen and both senators, Republicans and Democrats, wrote a joint letter to the Attorney General demanding that the Immigration Service stop enforcing the law.
This is 1998.
It was called the INS then.
Because they said the INS does not understand the needs of farmers.
Can't just go in there and run these people off that farm.
You're going to have onions that aren't picked.
That in ordinary English means let them pick the onions and then arrest them, preferably before we have to pay them.
Well, the INS got slapped down and they stopped any enforcement.
So what they tried as an alternative to raids, INS, was something called Operation Vanguard, and they tried this in Nebraska.
It was sort of the first effort at something like this to see if it worked.
They didn't do raids anywhere.
All they did was subpoena personnel records.
And they didn't just pick one or two employers.
They did all the meat packing plants in all of Nebraska so that no one of them would be inconvenienced while the others benefited.
They took the personnel records back to the INS offices.
They checked the social security numbers, and they came back with a list of people who seemed to be illegal, who did not have authorization to work.
They said, we know some of these people are legit and the records are wrong.
We want to fix those people's records and the ones that are illegal, they have to leave.
They came back with 4,000 names.
1,000 people showed up and got their records fixed.
3,000 were never heard from again.
They were illegal aliens.
It worked really well.
It was intended to be repeated every two to three months so as to wean the whole industry off the use of illegal aliens.
After one effort like this, the political and business elite in Nebraska went insane.
The ranchers and the meatpackers teamed up with the governor.
The governor's predecessor, now Senator Nelson, was hired as a lobbyist to put an end to this initiative.
Senator Chuck Hagel made it essentially his mission in life to see that this was never repeated, and it wasn't.
And the senior INS official who thought it up in the first place was invited to retire early, and he did.
Now, if you're a bureaucrat, you have kids in college, you're going to take the hint.
Congress doesn't want you to enforce the law.
So the Immigration Service essentially gave up enforcing the immigration laws inside the country back in the late 90s.
They focused on the important but narrow issues of criminal aliens and smugglers.
It's okay to focus on that, but there's more to the issue than just that.
But if you're only going to go into those areas where you're not going to get into trouble politically.
So basically, Monsour, the reason I wanted to tell you this is because your idea was to give businesses one year amnesty to get their houses in order.
If that ever happened, based on this, it won't.
If it ever happened, if that proposal ever gets made, can you imagine the phone calls that are going to be made to Washington, D.C. and the results that are going to be demanded?
So you wonder why the laws aren't being enforced?
It's because members of Congress have seen to it themselves.
Now, in both of these cases, members of Congress are responding to their constituents, the farmers in Georgia and the meat packing industry in Nebraska.
In these two instances, I don't think it has anything to do with propping up illegals.
This is just, I mean, these are contributors.
These are donors.
These are voters.
And that's where the concern was.
The most amazing thing is that they send the message to the INS.
Look, you're going to get in trouble.
You're going to be asked to retire early.
Just get the message real quick.
If you've got kids, if you've got a family to support, you want to keep the job.
You only investigate the smugglers, the dope smugglers, the people smugglers, and this sort of thing.
But you don't go after businesses who have already hired the illegals.
Very quickly, Jeff at Hickory, North Carolina.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
How you doing, Rosh?
Big fan of the show.
Thank you.
Hey, I wanted to call.
I was listening earlier to a caller, A.B., and you told him that he was more the one that had the racial tendencies, and I think you hit the nail on the head.
And I hear story after story like this, and I was reading in the USA Today yesterday an article about this Barry Bonds issue, testing for the steroids, and is it racial or not?
And there's a quote from Leonard Moore.
He's a director of African and African American Studies at LSU.
He says, white America doesn't want him, Barry Bonds, to pass Bay Bruth and doing everything they can to stop him, says Leonard Moore directly.
Well, look, I don't know how long it took them to find this guy, but USA Today was going to find some black guy somewhere to say that because the story requires it.
If they're going to say, hey, is there race involved?
They've got to go find somebody who says, yes, there is.
I don't know Leonard Moore.
This is going to ensnare people other than Barry Bonds.
I do think what this is about in part is to keep Barry Bonds from beating Aaron.
No, not Ruth.
No, no.
It is about Aaron.
They can't stop him beating Babe Ruth, but they think they got enough time to stop him from beating Hank Aaron, who's black.
By the way, I don't think race isn't good.
Remind me to mention this on Monday.
Okay, we'll talk about it.
Got to go, folks.
Stay with me.
All right, folks.
It's just been a fabulous past six or seven days.
Look forward to the respite that the weekend provides, and we'll be back revved up and ready to go on Monday.
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