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April 6, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 6, 2006, Thursday, Hour #3
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You know, we've been discussing here amongst ourselves this NASCAR NBC story.
If you haven't heard this, NASCAR yesterday strongly objected to a planned series of news reports that target race fans as potential sources of harassment for Muslim Americans.
Now, just the whole idea of this is perverted.
It is part of a broad story that NBC is doing about American attitudes toward Islam.
News magazine Dateline is placing Muslim and Arab American volunteers in a variety of public places, including NASCAR races, and filming their experiences in an attempt to record discrimination or harassment.
I think it's outrageous for a news organization of NBC's stature to go around and try to create news as opposed to reporting the news, said NASCAR spokesman Ramsey Poston.
Every legitimate journalist ought to be offended by the, hey, Ramsey.
They all think it's brilliant.
This is what they're trained to do.
Go out and destroy people and things.
That's how they get promoted.
Arab Americans were stationed in a crowd at last week's NASCAR race in Martinsville, Virginia.
NBC is considering doing the same at Sunday's race in Fort Worth, Texas.
NBC officials said that NASCAR races were only one place where Muslims would be placed.
They also said their story was inspired by a recent poll that showed that 46% of Americans hold a negative view of Islam, seven percentage points higher than in the months immediately after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Why are you choosing NASCAR, though, NB?
Why don't you choose New York?
In fact, I got an idea for you, NBC.
Do this.
You have cameras at your studios.
They're on all the time, right?
Do this before Katie Couric leaves the Today Show.
Get a dozen Arab guys and give them backpacks and put some cameras into backpacks, but don't make, you know, disguise the cameras as bulking, bulging backpacks and have them all storm an NBC set at the same time and then watch the tolerant liberals at NBC for their reaction to this.
Will they welcome them in?
Why, Arabs, are you here from Dubai?
Come on, and we'd love to talk to you about the port deal.
Or NBC, try this.
Why don't you get a mixture of blacks and a mixture of Arabs and send them into the upper deck during a Boston Bruins hockey game?
Or send them to the upper deck at a New York Rangers game or a New York Knicks game and see what happens there when a bunch of Arabs or blacks storm a hockey game and get that reaction.
Do it in New York and do it in Boston.
And then you might want to try doing something similar out in San Francisco at an Oakland A's baseball game.
I mean, they're really tolerant out there.
Or the San Francisco Giants.
Take a little heat off Barry Bonds.
Yeah, I just, I just, this is just, you talk about bigotry, racism, sexism, homophobia, and all.
NBC is exhibiting it here in droves.
All right, his cockroach story.
Now, you may be wondering, what am I doing reading stories about cockroaches?
Well, I must confess I didn't find this one on my own.
Somebody sent me this.
And the headline, deciding on a roach motel by committee.
Sure, the world may end in fire, perhaps in ice.
But for those who think the world will end in cockroaches, there may be a new cause for concern.
Scientists in Belgium have discovered that the insects are good at collective decision-making.
The purpose of the study at the Free University of Brussels was not to research the potential ascendancy of cockroaches.
Rather, they were trying to understand how gregarious animals make group decisions.
And I mean, if you've ever lived in an apartment, you know that cockroaches are, if anything, they're gregarious.
Cockroaches gather in sheltered locations or resting places.
So the question was, how do they go about forming groups that maximize protection but minimize overcrowding?
Resting places are a nice experimental setup to test collective decision-making.
The researchers used larvae of the German cockroach, placing quantities of them in a Petri dish outfitted with two or more shelters and small plastic caps.
No matter the size of the shelters or the number of larvae, the researchers found that cockroaches would seek a non-random, optimal solution.
The findings reported in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Now, you know, this is no mystery to me.
I mean, now we're getting stories that cockroaches actually make collective decisions.
Now, you and I know, yeah, they have a consensus.
Cockroaches have consensus.
Now, this is absurd.
A cockroach is instinct.
I'm not even going to get into that.
Let me get to the part that reminded me of Democrats.
Because here's the quote.
The behavior is based on very simple interactions among individual cockroaches.
Through chemical cues, the larvae can detect whether there are other larvae present.
And if a shelter gets too crowded, the larvae who prefer dim locations can tell that they're out in the light.
It's a simple way of taking the decision collectively.
It doesn't require any leadership or the exchange of a lot of information.
When I read that, it doesn't require any leadership or the exchange of a lot of information, just a bunch of collective consensus making.
If you throw in a poll now and then, you've got the Democratic Party.
It's exactly how the Democratic Party operates, as these researchers have discovered that cockroaches operate.
And they're just as gregarious.
And when you see them, you think you've got a problem.
I mean, there's a lot of commonality here.
The only thing you can't do is go out and get a can of raid on a Democrat.
Well, whatever you use, Pam.
This is such a great story.
This is in the Washington Post.
An internal document prepared by a top Democratic strategerist warns that a majority of African-American voters in Maryland are open to supporting Republican Senate candidate Michael Steele.
And the document advises the party not to wait to knock Steele down, meaning take him out.
The March 27th report by Cornell Belcher, the polling consultant for the Democratic National Committee, says, Governor Ehrlich and Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele have a clear ability to break through the Democratic stronghold among African American voters in Maryland.
This is a poll taken of 489 black voters in Maryland last month.
And the report was given to the Washington Post this week.
It drills into a topic that's emerged as a key focus of this year's U.S. Senate contest in Maryland, and that's race.
Now, this doesn't surprise Michael Steele is a solid individual.
You look at the slate of Republican black candidates out there, you've got Condoleezza Rice, you have Michael Steele, you've got Ken Blackwell in Ohio, you have Lynn Swan in Pennsylvania, and there are countless others of eminent stature and character.
And the more you read the story, the more you conclude that Michael Steele just seems like an especially great guy.
And don't forget Chuck Schumer.
Here's another scandal the Republicans didn't pursue.
Schumer's staffer goes out and purloins Social Security number for the purposes of getting his credit report.
They were going to make it public.
They found out who it was.
The woman had to pay a fine and got caught and so forth.
But the Republicans didn't pursue this.
You imagine this was the other way around.
And Schumer and his buds are out to say, hey, this shows exactly how fine people we are.
Because we didn't use that credit report that we stole.
We're good people.
Yeah, we stole the credit report, but we didn't use any of it.
And they're totally off the hook.
Schumer's totally off the hook, and he's out there all his big issue is identity theft and privacy and so forth.
This Steele guy is a great guy, and he's classy.
And you think about all the other conservative blacks of prominence out there that are also classy.
Condoleezza Rice, Clarence Thomas, Lynn Swan, J.C. Watts, Ken Blackwell.
And just compare them for a moment to Cynthia McKinney.
Or take your pick.
Al Sharpton, the Reverend Dax, and whoever else.
The difference is startling.
It just is.
Being black has nothing to do with it.
Content of character has everything to do with it.
And it's just, it's a striking difference.
I cannot believe that the Democrats, yes, never mind.
I can totally believe they don't see it.
In an interview in his state house office yesterday, Michael Steele clutched the Democrat document with this polling data like a football coach who just got his hands on the opposing team's playbook.
He said, copy landed on our doorstep in the past week.
He said, this explains everything.
They're afraid of what I represent.
They're afraid of the fact that African-American voters have options, and I'm one of them.
And that's exactly right.
When they go after these people, when they go after Michael Steele, and they will, and when they go after Lynn Swan, and when they go after Condoleezza Rice, as they already, I just want you to remember, these are the people who claim to be the best friends of the American black population ever.
Quick time out.
Stay with us.
Okay, people have been patiently waiting here to appear on this program, and I totally understand that.
So let's go there.
Ron in Lima, Ohio, you're next on the program.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Megatles, Rosh.
Thank you.
Longtime listener.
Little nervous.
I understand.
I understand that too.
I have been a caller.
I have been where you are.
My question is really simple.
Just how does an illegal person prove how long he's been illegally in our country?
Now, you know, you're reacting to this the wrong way.
You're actually taking the legislation seriously.
And therefore, after you do that, then you're asking a very logical question.
You're supposed to shut up about all that.
You're just supposed to appreciate the brilliance of your Senate.
And your legislators are coming up with such a breakthrough bill.
Maybe it'll spur a whole new market.
Some lot of illegal documents proving just how long they've illegally been here, I guess.
Well, I wouldn't be surprised in an open market like we have here.
If an illegal needs to prove he's been here five years, I'm sure he can go to somebody who'll forge a document for him.
CBS, Bill Burkett, still out there.
Here's what Ron's talking about.
We haven't given the specifics of this legislation since the beginning of the program.
The deal, this breakthrough deal, includes a temporary worker program backed by President Bush.
It would allow illegal immigrants who've been in the U.S. more than five years a chance to become citizens if they meet a series of requirements and pay a fine, like learn English and all that.
But if they've been here less than five years, they have to head back home and then come back.
They have to head back home.
The question is, what idiot's going to admit they've been here less than five years, and how are we going to prove it?
How are we going to possibly know?
Employment records, Rush.
Don't make me laugh.
Driver's license, well, that'd be one way of doing it.
Get illegal driver's licenses in a number of places.
But no, I mean, it's silly.
It's a great question.
This is Maria in Arlington, Texas.
Hi, Maria.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
It's so hard listening to you and agreeing with everything you say because at the same time, well, I'm illegal.
But I've been here 20 years in June.
And I was nine when I got here.
I came in on a visitor's visa when I was a little girl.
I went to high school here, graduated here, have a bachelor's degree from here.
And it's just, I'm kind of stuck in the middle.
I hate being grouped in with, well, all the illegals go back to Mexico.
I'm not from Mexico.
I'm from Venezuela.
And it's, I mean, do you think there should be a distinction made?
And I know it's hard to say illegal just includes everybody, but should there be a distinction made between us and how the law applies?
Maria, my first question to you is: if you've been here 20 years, what has prevented you from attempting the legal route?
There is no legal route for me.
I've tried, I've hired a lawyer, I've listened.
It's so hard to become legal, to become a citizen.
Forget a citizen.
It's so hard to become a resident first.
You have to be a resident for so many years.
And to get to that point, you have to find out.
Did you have a sponsor?
Did you have somebody in this country, a citizen for whom you worked that could have shepherded you through the process?
No, not really.
I mean, all my family here, they're citizens, but it's not my immediate family.
So only immediate family can claim a person, or if you work here, they can claim you.
But I wasn't legal when I graduated, so I've never worked.
And since technically you can't hire someone if they're illegal, then I've never had a job, I guess that you could say.
And maybe it's a small group of us that work hard, but I don't depend on anything from the government.
I don't, you know, had the whole, well, they're sucking the government dry and our social, nothing at all.
I've never been in trouble.
Well, I'm surprised.
You do have me intrigued.
I'm surprised that you started by saying that you agreed with everything I said.
I know, I know.
It's so hard because I understand the people that cross, you know, come in illegally and, you know, they're doing all these jobs and they go to the hospital and they get all these benefits that, yes, citizens and residents are paying for them to get those benefits.
I don't think that's right.
I think once you cross the border or you come here, any way you get here and you're illegal, you're giving up, or it should be understood that you're giving up a lot of rights.
And not that you should be depending on another government to give you what you need.
Okay, now, but let's say that the breakthrough legislation that the Senate brokered today, and let's say it becomes the law of the land.
You've been here longer than five years, so you're not going to have to go back to Venezuela.
You already speak English.
So, all you're going to have to do is show up and pay $1,000 or $2,000 in fines, and you're in there.
I know, I know.
And you know what?
I'm grateful for that.
If it comes to pass, I just don't want to be looked at.
Oh, you got a free pass type of deal.
And there's some of us that, like I said, I haven't.
Who's going to know?
Who's going to know unless you tell them?
I know, I know.
It's just.
By the way, I wouldn't care what other people think.
They don't know your story.
You start getting bogged down by all that.
You're going to stigmatize yourself.
Well, that's true.
That's true.
And I just, one other thing I'd like to point out is: I can't speak for everybody, but again, there's a group of us that a previous scholar said something about they should all go home.
And home for me is here.
I mean, I consider myself from here.
It's like my adoptive parent and my birth parent.
You know, I would never go back.
This is all my.
By the way, with old Hugo Chavez down there, I don't blame you for not wanting to go back.
Oh, no, he's a sweetheart, isn't he?
No, I'm not interested in that.
I know.
Wait, what did you say he is?
He's a sweetheart?
Yeah, no, sarcastically speaking.
No, thanks.
Oh, you're being facetious.
That's good.
That's good.
You have it going.
Well, look, your story indicates that the word illegal encompasses quite a few people.
But I'll tell you, I don't want, you know, if you keep the radio on and people call and react to you, there's going to be some people, I don't care.
I don't care about the details.
I don't care about the sob story.
It's illegal.
This is one of the problems.
I don't care how productive she is.
So don't get your feelings hurt by all this.
You know, because you were very brave here and calling and sharing your experiences with us.
Well, I appreciate that.
I will remember that.
We Americans, very proud of the country.
We're blessed.
We are eternal optimists.
And we, most of us, and we all are born, most of us are born and inculcated with the idea that we have to make certain contributions as we go through our lives so that our children and grandchildren inherit the same country and opportunities that we inherited.
And that's why this issue is concerning, disconcerting to a lot of people, because we fear an influx of people who don't care about Americanism, who don't care about, you're obviously not in this group, but that's why the concern exists, among many other things.
And I wanted you to try to understand that before I had to say goodbye.
Back in just a second, folks.
Stay with us.
Yes, sir.
El Rushball with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Now, I watched this, but I didn't hear it because it was on television during the program.
Cookie tells me that a Russ Feingold type in the audience at one of Bush's town meetings, he made a speech on Iraq today and a number of the things.
And some Russ Feingold type supporter stood up and asked a question that Bush apparently dealt with very well.
Here is how it went.
You never stopped talking about freedom, and I appreciate that.
But while I listen to you talk about freedom, I see you assert your right to tap my telephone, to arrest me and hold me Without charges.
If we're at war, we ought to be using tools necessary within the Constitution on a very limited basis, a program that's reviewed constantly to protect us.
Now, you and I have a different agreement on what is needed to be protected.
But you said, would I apologize for that?
And the answer is absolutely not.
Okay.
Well, not a bad answer, but what I would have said to the clunk head, I'm not spying on you, Jack, unless you're talking to somebody in Al-Qaeda over in another country.
Or if somebody Mal Qaeda is calling you, then we're listening in.
Or we hope to be able to, unless your party stops us from finding when the next attack is going to take place.
All right.
George in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, Rush, NASCAR Dittos.
Thank you, sir.
This isn't the first time NASCAR's been targeted.
Last year on the website, the NASCAR website, they revealed that the Rainbow Coalition had been shaking down NASCAR and the president for the last four years.
He'd been paying over six figures to the Rainbow Coalition so that they wouldn't bring any attention to NASCAR because of lack of African-Americans.
Yes, that's exactly right.
Very typical of the way the Reverend Jackson's monochrome coalition works.
It is a shakedown artist business.
And that goes back, I think, in 2003 that they've been shaking down NASCAR.
Yep, absolutely.
And so, well, the real question then is, is this an independently arrived at decision by NBC or is this the result of coordination?
It wouldn't be that hard to believe it's independently arrived at.
Liberals are liberals, whether they're Jesse Jackson or NBC.
And they're all going to have the same opinion of NASCAR.
A liberal is going to think of NASCAR like he thinks of evangelical Christian.
They're no different.
They're no different.
Hollywood hates them.
They're not going to see their movies.
Hollywood hates them because they can't do erotic Sharon Stone movies anymore that anybody wants to see because they blame NASCAR.
They blame evangelical Christians.
They blame Falwell.
They blame Roberts.
They blame Bush.
They blame me.
I could fix so much of what's wrong with liberalism.
As a consultant, I could fix Hollywood in one meeting per studio.
But they wouldn't listen.
It's clear when you're in a business where you have to understand your market.
They are now proud to be out of touch with their market.
They say so.
It's the stupidest way of running a business.
But that's a secondary concern.
A primary concern is remaining in the clique and being invited to all the cocktail parties in Hollywood and Manhattan.
And you've got to say and do the right things.
And if your business goes in a tank doing that, then you're an even bigger hero.
Lyle in Redding, California.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
How do you do, sir?
I'm an American living in Mexico.
And they hassle us down there like you can't believe.
I have to bring a copy of my bank statement showing I have $1,000 a month income, so I'm not a parasite on their system, you might say.
I have to go every year, pay $100 for an FM3, which is like a green card.
I concur with you 100%.
I like it down there because, of course, I have friends and people I used to work with that live down in the little village I live in.
And, you know, it's unbelievable.
The way they hassle us, I have a friend that was working down there.
Now, as a pensionado, I'm not allowed to work or bring in any money.
If I do, I'm subject to deportation.
Yeah, we went through all this.
So you heard the laws, the limbaugh laws earlier.
You heard that.
And I concur with you 100% as somebody who's living down there.
Well, why are you doing it?
Why am I doing it?
Why are you living down there?
And by the way, folks, before you answer that, I've told this story countless times.
Last November, I was in Puerto Vallarta playing golf, and I was stunned at the number of retirees, American retirees that live down there.
It's because it's cheap.
It's because it's cheaper, and their retirement dollars go farther.
And there was a story, American Spectators, something from yesterday's stack.
I didn't get to it, but documenting, it's not nearly as much, but there's a flow of retired Americans heading down to Mexico, resort communities and so forth, own condominiums and this sort of thing.
And there's an influx, of course, of Mexicans coming into the United States.
But why are you living there?
And what are you doing in Reading, California if you live in Mexico?
Well, I had to come back and file my income taxes.
That's one of the reasons I'm back.
Because they're going to be filed by the, what, 15th of this month?
17th.
You have to the 17th.
Okay, 17th.
So anyway, down where I live, I live down there for less than $500 a month, and I, you know, have a good lifestyle.
I have a motorcycle that I'm at a place called the Copper Canyon.
Yeah, but it's not.
It sounds like they're putting you through hell.
I ride my motorcycle.
I carry Mexican insurance.
I just enjoy the life down there.
Well, but it sounds like they're putting you through hell as an immigrant.
All you got to do is know the rules and follow, you know, step through the holes.
Well, I did have a friend that spent four months in jail when they caught him working.
I love it.
Well, let me go through the limbo laws very quickly again.
I'll do this very quickly.
It's today's morning update for those of you mentioning it.
But if I were going to be in charge of writing the immigration laws in this country, this is what I would do.
First, if you immigrate to our country, you have to speak our language, and you have to be a professional or an investor.
If you're unskilled, you don't get in.
No special bilingual programs in schools.
No special ballots for elections.
No government business will be conducted in your native language.
You will not have the right to vote or hold political office.
Forget it.
If you're in our country, you will not burden our taxpayers.
You are not entitled to welfare or to food stamps or other government goodies.
You can come if you invest, though.
But you can't.
It's got to be a sum equal to 40,000 times the daily minimum wage, not a penny less.
If you don't have that, screw you.
Stay home.
But if you want to buy land, you want to come here, fine, but we're going to restrict where you can buy it.
You can't buy any waterfront friend.
You've got to buy land that nobody else in our country wants.
As a foreigner, you will give up your individual rights to the property at the moment anybody needs it.
Another thing, you don't have the right to protest.
You come down here and start waving flags around and go out in placards and start protesting things.
You start badmouthing our president, his policies, you're out.
We find out about it and you're gone.
You're a foreigner.
You are expected to shut your mouth or get out of the country.
And if you come here illegally and try to get a job, you go to jail.
Period.
Now, these laws that I've just cited as my own are actual laws of Mexico today regarding immigration.
That's how the Mexican government deals with immigrants to their country.
And so that's what Lyle here is calling to say, yeah, it's all that and more.
And he was giving us some actual eyewitness testimony.
Lyle, thanks much to Dayton, Ohio.
This is Linda on the EIB Network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Fine, thank you.
It's an honor and a privilege to speak with you.
I appreciate that.
And I want to thank you for all you do.
I come from a long family of Democrats, but my immediate family and my children are all conservatives now, thanks to you.
And I appreciate all you do.
I have kind of a solution to the illegal immigrant workers, and I don't know if it would work, but my daughter is a caseworker for welfare in Ohio here.
And a large percentage of those welfare recipients will not work.
They are able to, but they will not.
Could we not replace the illegal immigrant workers with welfare recipients that are able to work?
Well, that wouldn't save Social Security.
There's a bunch of arguments here.
Number one, if you think, and Linda, I'm surprised at you for not figuring this out on your own.
As much training as you've had as a listener here, if you think that the Democratic Party, which will have to go along with a scheme of yours, is going to actively suggest that welfare recipients get a job.
Last time I tried that on the radio regarding the homeless, I got derided for two weeks in the media.
Easy for him to say, get a job.
The second thing is, you have a tough time getting Republicans on it, although in this current climate, but their welfare reform, which Clinton signed after vetoing it twice, is actually getting more and more welfare recipients to work.
It's a very, very successful piece of legislation.
It's working.
But I want to go back to this Social Security business because remember Elizabeth from Los Angeles, she called up.
She was all concerned that what really bothered her is all these baby boomers at I Am One are basically a bunch of lazy sloths, and we have expectations of being totally supported in our retirement by other people working.
And she says, if we don't allow these illegal immigrants to come in, then we're not going to have the money to pay for your Social Security.
Well, the short-sighted look at that is this: if you bring them in, some of them are going to be contributing to Social Security, no question, which will ease the burden on everybody else.
But then they're also going to hang around long enough to collect it.
Because by the time they're old enough to collect it, the policy will have changed.
It's a net wash on Social Security.
Which is a specious argument anyway, but I wanted to deal with it.
I appreciate that, Linda.
I got to run quick timeout, but back with much more after this.
So I've got this email here.
This guy says, I guess, Rush, we might as well just tear down the Statue of Liberty and tell the huddled masses to go home, right?
Now, that whoever, who is it, Michael Smith, on the subscriber email line.
Michael, you can't be listening today if that's your.
And that's why, you know, people ask me about you people in the audience.
I get this question all the time.
People want to know what I think of the audience.
Because a lot of people have a, let's face it, everybody has images.
And one of the images to talk radio is that the audience is a bunch of out-of-work welfare recipients or retired or whatever.
And we always stun people when I share with them the details of our extensive audience research.
This talk show has probably the largest percentage of college graduates of any talk show audience in the country.
It's over 50%.
Income, average income of this audience is astoundingly high.
People are always stunned when they look at it.
But even at that, I do mention sometimes I even I am surprised at how some of you just don't listen.
I am a master in the art of communication.
It is impossible to misunderstand me.
You have to try to misunderstand.
You have to be trying not to get it in order not to.
For somebody to write me a note saying we may as well blow up the statue.
Sorry.
May as well tear down the Statue of Liberty and tell the huddled masses to go to hell.
How in the world do you get that from this program?
You don't at all, unless that's what you want to hear.
Here's Ryan in Miami.
Ryan, welcome to the program.
Great to have you with us.
Nice to speak with you, Rush.
Thank you.
I just want to let you know that I worked at a port of entry, and I like to know how 12 million people are going to be processed at the ports of entry.
We can barely keep up with people coming into the country legally, let alone one to three hours of processing of 12 million people.
Wait, wait, wait, what am I missing here?
You mean talking about deporting 12 million people?
Or making them legal, if you will, I guess, is what's being talked about.
Oh, oh, oh, well, it's kind of like when we ban the ugly, we make it voluntary.
If you're illegal, we're going to make it voluntary.
You show up and say that you're illegal, and then that'll make you legal.
And, of course, if you've been here less than five years, you have to go back home.
We expect the honor system to work flawlessly in this case.
We expect those who have been here less than five years to admit it.
Interesting.
I'd like to know what happens when a few hundred people show up to one of those one or two man ports up in Maine or Panhandle of Florida.
No, so this is a logistical question.
It's a good one.
Yeah, absolutely.
And think about the legalization program that happened in the 80s.
There are still offices that are open dealing with that still.
You mean from the Simpson-Azzoli bill?
From 1986?
Yes, sir.
There's still offices that are dealing with that today.
Still offices dealing with the mass legalization.
That was only 4 million people.
Yeah, exactly.
We're still in the process of legalizing people 20 years ago?
That's correct.
Wow.
Well, I see your question now.
So how are we going to legalize 11 million?
How long is this going to take?
By the time we get this 11 million legalized, it could be 40 more, 40 million more that have come in behind them.
And 20 years from now, 20 years, Senator Barack Obama will come up with some brilliant plan to deal with the latest evolution of the crisis in illegal immigration.
Here's Randy in Omaha.
Randy, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello, Mr. Limbaugh.
It's a true honor to speak to you.
Thank you.
My question or comment, I guess, is I guess what everybody, I have not heard anybody talk about is that all of these people, the illegals that everybody's talking about, maybe they don't want to be legal.
They don't want to pay taxes.
They don't want to have to deal with the bureaucracy.
They don't want to have to deal with any of this, and they're willing to work for less.
They can come and go as they please.
No problem.
It's no problem.
They can do whatever they want.
They can stay illegal.
We're not going to try to find them.
It's a voluntary program.
Yeah.
Well, that was my only comment was that everybody seems to be forgetting that maybe these people don't want to be found.
They don't want to come out from underneath of the.
Well, that's a good point.
I have not myself fallen prey.
I've raised that possibility by constantly asking, look at, if they come forward, they are going to have to pay a $1,000 fine.
If they've been here less than five years and they come forward, they're going to be sent home.
How many are going to do this?
And then of the other five, the other portion that have been here longer than five years, yeah, it may well be that they just prefer being a secret.
And then, of course, folks, let's not forget the terrorists who have come in under this program.
I still haven't seen anything in the Senate legislation require the terrorists that are here to show up and identify themselves and register.
And until we do that, no immigration reform is comprehensive.
Back in a second.
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