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May 16, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 16, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
You got a feel for George W. Bush, folks.
He just can't win, no matter what he does.
It makes everybody mad.
I mean, even future potential illegal immigrants in Juarez, Mexico are mad.
They say National Guard's not going to stop them.
If they get thrown out, they'll just turn around and come back.
Everybody's mad at the President today, except the Drive By Media.
The Drive By Media is writing sympathetic stories of George W. Bush.
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Always uh always happy to hear you.
Have you heard about I want to get into this later too.
The uh the drive by media.
If there was ever, if I mean, I know I've coined a lot of phrases, and I've coined a lot of titles and names, but I think this drive by media perhaps is uh in the top five of all the like feminazi uh and uh and a number of other things that we have coined here.
USA Today got it wrong, ATT, no, Bell South.
Bell South said we didn't ever and NSA's never even called us wanting phone number.
We never gave them.
We never gave phone numbers to the NSA.
We never gave phone records.
USA Today called ATT the day before publishing the story.
We've been working on this for four months, so we're publishing it tomorrow.
And the uh Bell South guys I don't know, they never got back to him.
And so the uh drive by media USA Today runs this story about uh all these phone records going to the NSA, and then USA Today's excuse is they never called and asked us to correct the story.
It's right out of Dan Rather and Mary Mapes.
They can assert whatever they want.
If nobody challenges it, ma'am, it must be true.
And so uh USA Today has finally been told by uh Bell South, hey, we didn't we had nothing to do with it.
We'll have more on this uh as the program unfolds before your very eyes.
All right, let's get to the president's speech on immigration last night.
What you saw, what you heard, uh I think is a uh sincere leader trying to lead the nation.
We've got the the third rail of third rails here, the uh uh uh illegal immigration, and and the horses are out of the barn on this.
And it's one of the you can you can lock the door to the barn all you want, and you can say but when the horses are gone, the horses are gone.
And this is one of these um issues.
Um you heard the president, you saw him trying to solve a problem that previous leaders and politicians created, ignored, and encouraged.
Um and it it it's it's uh it's a tough thing.
I mean, he doesn't uh the the base is angry at him.
Uh at least some people, according to my emails are livid.
Uh the liberals on this still deserve our attention because they can sit out there and they can bellyache and they can whine and they can moan all day long, but they're not offering one solution, and they are not for any kind of enforcement whatsoever.
Uh and and yet they're sitting around uh uh trying to just just capitalize on this without even participating in it.
Um judging by the mainstream media's reaction today, I mean the New York Times has run a sympathetic story by Elizabeth Buemiller on just how how nice and thorough and consistent Bush is on Mexicans and and and immigration and what it means to the country and blah, blah, blah.
And the LA Times liked it.
The Washington Post liked it.
And they all used the word moderate.
The president struck a middle chord.
All right, well, we're gonna find out real quick, since that's what the drive-by media is saying.
I want you to pay special attention to the polls because we are always told that elections in this country are won by the party that best courts the undecided vote, the moderates, the independents, uh, the middle ground, because the base of both parties you take for granted, they cancel each other out, but that great unwashed in the middle in there.
That's what we go get.
Okay.
So if the drive-by media wants to anoint the president's speech last night as a big appeal to the center, then his approval numbers ought to skyrocket if this is indeed a country of moderates.
So let's just wait and see what the next approval numbers from drive-by media polls show us.
Let's listen to a summary here.
This is a montage to get cut to the chase of the five points that the president made in his speech last night about dealing with the problem.
First, the United States must secure its borders.
This is a basic responsibility of a sovereign nation.
Second, to secure our border, we must create a temporary worker program.
Third, we need to hold employers to account for the workers they hire.
A key part of that system should be a new identification card for every legal foreign worker.
Fourth, we must face the reality that millions of illegal immigrants are here already.
They should not be given an automatic path to citizenship.
This is amnesty, and I oppose it.
Fifth, we must honor the great American tradition of the melting pot, which has made us one nation out of many peoples.
The success of our country depends upon helping newcomers assimilate into our society and embrace our common identity as Americans.
Americans are bound together by our shared ideals, an appreciation of our history, respect for the flag we fly, and an ability to speak and write the English language.
All right, there's some high points in here.
There's some good stuff in there, but uh people are asking today, is it just words?
Uh the they've heard them before.
This is uh speech that really didn't contain a whole lot new.
Uh, and there are others uh who say, yeah, it did, but I don't think I didn't hear the president's heart in this.
Um I'm getting um uh uh uh feedback that that that runs uh the gamut, but I want to go through uh some of these, some of some of these points.
But before I do, I have to, you know, uh the the one thing that that that's that really just uh sent me over the edge yesterday was the analysis by Senator Sessions and Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation on this so-called compromise bill in the Senate, the Hegel Martinez bill.
Um one hundred and ninety-three to two hundred and seventeen million new legal immigrants.
Uh is what over the next twenty years is what is possible uh in this particular piece of legislation.
And the president last night threw this back into Congress's lap.
I uh he he specifically mentioned Congress in this speech, House and Senate, and told them to get their um rear ends in gear and get something done here.
Uh because there are a number of competing bills.
The House, folks, is where the solution to this problem is, and everybody's focusing on the Senate.
Uh and this Senate bill is just scary.
I mean, this Senate bill is going to create a strain on the welfare state like you have never seen a hundred and ninety-three million new legal immigrants.
Uh this is a number greater than sixty percent of the current U.S. population in the next 20 years.
Uh, Jeff Sessions, as Alabama Republican, conducted a separate analysis that reached similar results.
Uh, we told you about his numbers yesterday, as high as two hundred and seventeen million uh legal slash illegal.
Well, what they're called legal because it'll take illegals and make them legal uh over the course of the uh next twenty years.
And the uh in fact, let me uh grab this the bit about the what did I put a print about too many things here that I got to get this in just a second.
But the the the strain on the welfare system that the uh uh all of this would would cause would bust it.
Now, I've I've talked to a lot of people also that uh say, you know, you know, uh Rush, uh, you were asking a question yesterday, what what is the real reason all this is going on?
And people have uh said to me, Rush, it's real simple.
Uh members of Congress are gutless, and they have no intention of reforming social security or Medicare or any of these entitlements, and they need countless new workers to contribute to Social Security, so the baby boomers and the Generation Y and that that slothful generation Hillary was talking about will have their social security because the program's going bankrupt.
And then you go to Barron's magazine, you find that this is the first year that the Social Security Surplus will not cover Medicare payments.
And then you combine these two.
So, okay, maybe this is what's really going on.
Maybe these cowards in Washington who are afraid to reform a program because it's the third rail, Social Security, you don't touch it.
The way you keep it going is by importing all these new employees, new workers.
Well, that sounds good until you take it a step further.
Look at the pressure on those very programs.
All of these immigrants are going to be applying in terms of receiving benefits.
And if they are low wage, minimum wage or barely above that, just how much are they going to be contributing anyway to the overall pool that pays out benefits?
So the the the impact on these programs would more than cancel out whatever benefit these new quote unquote legal illegals and their contributions would be to these programs.
I got to take a break.
We'll do that.
We'll be back and continue.
A lot of people asking me about this ID card.
What what what is this biometric ID card that the president talked about?
I have the answer for you as well as the answer to almost everything if you listen long enough here on the EIB network.
Stay with us.
And we are back, and we will get to your phone calls in due course here on the EIB network.
Did you hear what happened on USA or USA?
ESPN yesterday.
We've got audio sound bites to some of this.
The um uh what was his name?
Dave Evans, the guy identified or indicted yesterday down in in Durham, North Carolina, team captain of the Duke LaCrosse team.
Was it he made a just a killer statement at his uh press conference conducted by his lawyer yesterday?
And he just read the riot act of the DA.
He said we cooperated.
I didn't have a lawyer president, we didn't do anything wrong, nothing happened there.
We helped them search the place for an hour, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
ESP, I went out and got some defense lawyer from Philadelphia to trash the kid.
I have never seen anything like this, this defense lawyer said it was Deborah something.
I've never seen this.
I've never seen a defendant do a press conference.
Well, this is outrageous.
Defendant's out there, he's purposely tainting and trashing the jury pool.
This is a travesty of justice.
I am unbelieving in this.
The DA down there has done how many numerous press conferences and press appearances?
Over 70.
Talk about chain t tainting the jury pool.
The accused, the defendant, the indicted, is not supposed to defend himself.
No, they're supposed to do that in court.
No lawyer lets a defendant speak uh in advance of the unreal.
And it just confirms my notion uh that that this is what you know, people think law enforcement never gets it wrong.
Law enforcement, why they wouldn't waste their time unless the PERP were guilty, they wouldn't charge somebody falsely.
Ha ha.
You know, this is this is outrageous.
Anyway, that there's a lot of stuff besides this immigration that I want to get to today.
Um, and we will.
But a lot of people are asking me, Rush, what is this biometric card that the uh uh president was talked about?
The key part of the system be a new ID card for every legal foreign worker.
All right.
Now, this is interesting.
Uh, one of the cards under consideration is a card called uh Iron Gate.
It's by a company uh uh digital defense.
And you can go to their website, you see a mydigital defense.com is the is their website.
And the the Iron Gate biocard basically works uh uh by it it it it it has your fingerprint uh deeply embedded in the card, and it can't be duplicated, it cannot be counterfeited.
Um what happens is as though according to the website, an Iron Gate biocard user registers their biocard and self-enrolls their fingerprints by placing a finger or thumb on the biocard scan engine.
This generates a unique digital certificate directly onto the biocard.
Once an Iron Gate biocard user is registered and enrolled, only then can the industry's first on-card authentication process take place through the wireless transmission of a multi-frequency band sending only the digital certificate.
A user's biometric data never leaves the Iron Gate uh biocard.
The stored biometric information can't be breached, cannot be duplicated if the card is lost or stolen, provides maximum security.
This is just one of the cards that that I think is being considered for this.
Uh Stop and think, though, for a minute.
Every legal foreign worker will be given one of these cards.
Theoretically, if you don't have one of these cards, you don't get a job, you don't get a paycheck, you don't get a welfare check, you don't get any of this.
How long is it going to take to get one of these cards if this actually happens?
And I don't know if this is in the quote unquote compromise bill in the Senate.
How long is this going to take to register and find every legal foreign worker, get them one of these cards, uh thereby establishing who's illegal.
Uh it may be it may be possible, but the people that believe in this, there's no way that you can you can counterfeit this.
There is no way that you can transfer this to somebody else.
Uh uh uh it is one of the latest cutting-edge uh technicological technological advances.
So uh the people are very some of the I'm just responding to some of the email.
I've been reading it last night, because I was I I've been fascinated by people's reaction to the speech.
Uh this this issue is it's crucial to the future of the country.
I mean, when you read the the reports, and and we uh we put them on uh on the website, we linked to them last night, the Jeff Sessions analysis and the and the Heritage Foundation analysis, anywhere from 1930 to 217 million new legal immigrants in the next 20 years.
Um we were never intended to assimilate that many people.
Over a twenty that's that's that's two-thirds of the population of the country as it exists today.
Uh the Heritage Foundation report that was released by Robert Rector, who is one of the nation's leading authorities on poverty and welfare, by the way, and I've quoted him countless times during the history of this program.
In fact, by the way, speaking of poverty, there's a there's a there's a story who was it?
Um, some the American American uh heart of American Heart Association.
I have it here.
Some organization concerned now that that that uh that uh uh obesity uh is is running rampant among those in poverty.
Yeah, you you read that, you're okay if you do a uh sort of what what was that?
Obesity running rampant in poverty?
I glossed over that the further.
You go back.
How can this be?
It used to be thought that obesity was one of the uh uh problems of affluence.
Now obesity is a problem in in poverty.
What are you laughing at?
I kid you not, there's this actual story.
It's it's in the st- Well, I don't care if they're eating the wrong kinds of food, they're eating much food.
They're eating lots of the wrong kinds of food is the point.
If they're obese, at any rate.
At any rate, Robert Rector has estimated that the compromise bill, the Hegel Martinez bill would admit whatever it is, 103 to 193.
It depends on whether their estimates, and they've used conservative estimates, uh, manifest themselves if if their estimates prove out, uh the largest expansion of the welfare state in 35 years.
The largest expansion of the welfare state in 35 years.
Now, when you hear welfare state, what do you hear?
What do you envision?
You envision Democrat victims, you envision Democrat voters.
So the question is, why is the GOP complicit in this?
Jeff Sessions, the debate on this bill starts today.
Sessions is going to go to the Florida Senate and start using some of these numbers.
It's a 614-page bill.
Uh and and that's where the action is on this, folks, is is the legislation that we're that we're all of a sudden now have to have to deal with this immigration issue.
The president made speech last night.
You can think whatever you want of the speech, but the action is now in the Senate.
Believe me, the House bill is is is where the solution to this needs to be.
The House of Representatives, run by conservative Republicans is the is the is the last great hop uh for the future of the country when it comes to this issue, folks.
And I do not say that lightly, because if anything like this compromise bill uh offered by two Republicans, Hegel and Martinez, uh, ends up being anywhere near what it is now.
Uh Uh you the the results of this you can you can't even imagine.
You'll have to be around for twenty years to see it take place.
Uh the the entire demographic makeup, the ethnic makeup of uh so many other aspects of our demography will change dramatically in ways that will make the country unrecognizable.
And you have to know the people behind this are aware of it.
They wrote the bill.
Uh Sessions' point is he doesn't think too many senators have read it.
That's why he did an analysis of it is going to make the uh uh numbers focal point of his debate.
But when I saw this yesterday, this is what, you know, uh uh got me thinking about this in a whole different way, uh, because this is this is totally unnecessary what's happening now.
It's hello, we need some voters and we need some new welfare state victims, and hello, Democrats, blah blah.
On the cutting edge of societal evolution having more fun, and a human being should be allowed to have.
In the um in the in the uh Hegel Martinez compromise bill, uh amnesty would be granted to about ten million illegals.
Uh that's not the problem.
The real growth uh in the immigrant uh population would come later.
As part of the bill, the annual flow of legal immigrants allowed into the U.S. would more than double to more than two million annually.
In addition, the guest worker program in the bill would bring in three hundred and twenty-five thousand new workers annually who could later apply for citizenship, and that population would grow exponentially from there because the millions of new citizens would be permitted to bring along their extended families.
Jeff Sessions said that the uh bill includes escalating caps, uh, which would raise the number of immigrants allowed in as more people seek to enter.
The impact of this increase in legal immigration dwarfs the magnitude of the amnesty provision, said Mr. Rector.
He called the bill the most dramatic piece of legislation in my experience, quote, unquote.
Then on the other end of the spectrum, I've been looking at a lot of places here today.
Uh criminalizing economic self-interest is a piece by Lee Harris at uh Tech Central Station.
Now, I don't know much about Tech Central Station.
I've quoted a lot of things from Tech Central Station.
I like them.
Are these guys basically a bunch of libertarians?
Are they just techies?
No, no, but this this is, I think, I would have to say that this sounds like a a a pretty uh uh libertarian piece.
Um the the I guess that to summarize this piece, you'd have to say, be serious, you can't enforce the law.
Come on, what are we talking about here, folks?
We can't enforce law, but he demanding enforcement, we can't enforce it.
He explains why.
He says there are two ways of dealing with this problem.
First, you simply ship back all the illegal immigrants who are willing to work cheaper than Americans, thereby eliminating them altogether from the labor market, in which case the cost of brawn will rise to the point where Americans will again be willing to do the work previously done by illegals.
Second, you can try to penalize those companies that rely on illegal immigrants until the point is reached where, due to active and vigilant government interference in the day-to-day operation of thousands upon thousands of small businesses, each and every labor-intensive business will be so harassed by legal sanctions that it'll be forced to adopt a policy of hiring only Americans, at which time the illegal immigrants will simply pack up their bags and go back home.
Everybody says that that's gonna happen.
In if in a hypothetical theoretical uh sense, everybody says, well, if you just eliminate the job opportunities and have no choice but to go back home.
Why w where does that come from?
Anyone ever heard of the social safety net in this country?
Why do we assume they'll just go back home?
They left home for a reason.
Yeah, they came here for a job, but they can't get a job, fine.
We'll take care of them else because we're a compassionate people.
Uh I don't think all of them would go home.
I think that's that's a mistake a lot of people are making.
But anyway, that's just a little aside.
Is it little wonder, then, that so many people think the solution to the problem of immigration lies in the second Method enforcing current laws and thereby increasing the real cost to business of hiring illegal immigrants through fines and the threat of costly legal action.
But what those who take this approach fail to understand is that in order to make the second method work, it's not enough to make examples of certain businesses who hire illegal immigrants.
No.
The government would have to make it clear to each and every business that it cannot risk hiring illegal immigrants because of the certainty of the fact that they're going to get caught.
But how can the government make thousands and thousands of small businesses feel certain that they would get caught except by actually monitoring on a virtually day-by-day basis their hiring practices?
And how much bigger would our already big government have to get in order to achieve that ability to micromanage all the independent businesses that use illegal immigrants as laborers.
And who would pay for this new army of bureaucrats but the American people themselves?
The same logic applies to the idea of targeting the big companies that hire illegals.
Yeah, you might be able to get them to obey the law, but the smaller companies who are not by definition exposed to the same degree of risk will simply take over those customers who would rather have cheaper service provided to them by the labor of illegals.
But what's the point of tougher laws if these laws only penalize economically the few who obey them while rewarding the many who do not?
For small businesses, running risks is an everyday occurrence, and where the risk is judged to be minimal and the rewards of taking the risk are great, the risk will be run.
Thus, while large companies may comply with the new Georgia law, the uh the tiny ones won't.
Uh and so this is a libertarian website, Leo Harris, the author of Civilization and its enemies.
And his whole point here is you think we can enforce the law on the books.
You are sadly mistaken.
I don't know.
The NSA is doing a pretty good job of spying on us domestically, the Libs say.
Why not have the NSA spy on businesses?
Anyway, uh, throwing all these things out for you to react to.
Did you hear what Dingy Harry said?
Uh Dingy Harry said this is this is simply mindless.
Dingy Harry said it's not enough for President Bush to tell us he wants to increase security at the borders after all he's had five years to do it.
If he wants to be credible on border security, he must acknowledge his mistakes and commit to fixing them.
What is he talking about?
What could could I see Dingy Harry's border security measure?
Could I see any Democrats' proposal on immigration?
They are getting away with absolutely nothing.
They're getting it with taking a position on nothing.
They're getting away with being spectators only.
They are getting away without committing one way or the other on this, but we all know where they stand, and that is destroy Bush and create as many new victims and voters as possible.
We know they're out there recruiting in these uh illegal immigrant marches.
Dick Durbin uh did the Democrat response last night.
We have we have a couple of uh of bites from uh from Senator Durbin.
Here is the first.
We must act now to secure our borders and fix our broken immigration system.
But we don't need a military solution to break a political stalemate.
We need leadership.
Democrats are willing to support any reasonable plan that will secure our borders, including the deployment of National Guard troops.
But Americans don't want a plan that's been cobbled together to win political favor.
This cannot turn into another long-term military deployment with no clear plan.
Give me a break.
What's your alternative, Senator?
What's your idea?
This is cowardice on display.
We must act now to secure our borders and fix our broken system, but we don't need a military solution to break a political stalemate.
I didn't hear a solution, and I never will hear a solution from the Democrats.
Durbin last night couldn't decide whether he agrees with Bush or not, but he definitely has no alternative.
They didn't know what to do with this last night.
So they're just taking their usual pot shots.
Here's the second bite we have of Durban.
We know where the House Republicans stand.
They want to criminalize undocumented immigrants, and the nurses, volunteers, and people of faith who helped them.
Oh, come on, President told us.
Tough fair, comprehensive reform.
Now he must lead.
The President has the power to call up the National Guard to patrol our border, but now he must summon the power to lead his own Republican forces in Congress to support a bipartisan, comprehensive immigration reform.
Democrats are nowhere near it.
This is amazing.
They're getting a free pass on this.
They are total spectators.
They get to stand around and watch and then act as referees, if you will, on what they think is good or bad, and they continue to misstate the case.
This business, we know where the House Republicans stand, they want to criminalize undocumented immigrants and the nurses and so forth.
There's even a story in my immigration stack today that uh uh uh immigration activists are putting out there that illegals will not even be given communion in church.
And it's it's gotten to the point now of uh of absurdity.
But Senator Durbin, the truth on this criminalization business is it that was that was in the House bill, and the Republicans wanted to take it out, and Democrats voted against taking it out.
Democrats voted for leaving in the criminalization of the illegals in America today, precisely so that Durban could run around and say, like he said last night what you just heard uh lies and distortions about what the Republicans want to do.
If there's anybody doing political posturing on the and I will say both parties are uh but I th there is a there's still a question in my mind, is anything really going to get done by the election?
Because everybody's all revved up.
The president passed it off to Congress last night.
He makes his speech, he says, okay, members of the House and Senate, I want you to work on this.
But uh this this yeah, I I will be stunned if they actually come up with a bill uh before November.
Uh the this this because once people hear the details, and a lot of people hear the details of what's in this so-called compromise.
And by the way, Kennedy McCain, McCain, Kenneth, McCain's name comes first, right?
McCain Kennedy.
Um it's it's essentially the same thing.
Uh Hegel Martinez is just a is just a compromise when it's all bogus.
It's uh and it's it's exceedingly dangerous.
I gotta take a quick break.
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Now, folks, if you've been with us since the top of the program, a theme should have evolved or um uh made itself uh aware in your mind, and that is I know there are a lot of you out there, damn Republicans, hey, they're selling us all out.
Throw them a helmet.
You know you're out there, you've been out there for a while, and this issue uh illustrates that a lot of Republicans are simply not conservatives.
But I'll tell you what does stand out as you as you listen to the uh the brilliant uh contents of the opening of this program to date.
Uh it is imperative that the House of Representatives stay Republican.
It is the only check that we conservatives have.
It's the only place in government where there is a semblance of a conservative movement.
Uh uh the Senate is just made up of a bunch of of moderate flyby knights who all think they should be president, and they're all planning to run for president one day or another.
Uh and and and they're all a bunch of compromisers and and they're not part of uh movements.
Some of them are, but but but but uh there are too many that aren't and gum up the works.
Uh the the House of Representatives on Immigration uh has the most responsible, sensible piece of legislation, especially compared to this this absurdity, uh this series of absurdities that constitute Senate legislation.
Uh Mike and Redondo Beach, California, you're up first as we go to the phones.
Welcome, sir.
Thank you, Rash.
Great to be on.
Thank you.
You know, I'm hearing a couple criticisms from conservatives about the speech last night, and and I do consider myself to be a conservative, and I'm I'm angry about illegal immigration as well.
But the the first thing I'm hearing is that the president is misdefining amnesty and then allowing illegal aliens to stay and work as gas workers, even with penalties and no automatic citizenship, that that constitutes amnesty.
Well, an amnesty is defined by the dictionary as a general pardon, but there's no pardon in this plan.
I I hear the president saying that there will be fines level back taxes will be required.
There's even talk they'll have to go back to their home country.
So I don't see these people getting off scot-free.
I mean, maybe it's not the level of punishment we think should occur, but it's not just giving out a full no-strings attached forgiveness.
This is this is this is a problem that that has been created by what I call uh and you've all heard the how the horses out of the barn syndrome.
Um you can you can you can say it's amnesty or it's not amnesty, but the fact is since nobody is seriously talking about deporting these people, then the obvious result is they're here.
If we're not gonna deport them, they're here.
Okay, so what's the compromise?
This is why the drive-by print meeting today loves Bush, because they think he struck this middle ground.
And whether it's amnesty or not, uh by virtue of the dictionary, the fact is that people who came here legally are going to have presented to them an opportunity to go to the front of the line and get legal in front of people who have played by the rules.
The question is, what do you do about this if on the one hand you're not gonna deport them?
By definition, that means they're going to stay.
So what do you do then?
And that's where this whole compromise in terms of dealing with the eleven to twelve million that are here already uh focuses.
I will I will tell you these penalties, uh uh two thousand dollar fines, uh, whatever back taxes, go out and learn English.
They probably paid their coyotes more than that just to get here.
So this is I don't know how punitive that is.
Uh I don't know what it I've heard any number of figures that it costs to get smuggled in here if uh if you go out and hire a coyote to do it for you.
Uh this is probably not gonna equal what they pay their coyotes.
But folks, look, the the the I understand that this is uh a focal point, amnesty or not amnesty to guard on the border and this sort of thing.
The real problem here is is this this this compromise bill in the Senate uh uh and what it portends, it doesn't the the eleven to twelve million that are here now become chump change.
If this Senate bill ever sees the light of day in its present form, we're talking 193 to 217 million legals, comprised of about half of them illegal being made legal.
Um as more of them come, the caps that limit how many can come also rise.
They don't fall.
So uh there there are there are a lot of elements of this that that need to be examined, but the horses out of the barn when it comes to these 11 to 12.
The problem now is we've got legislation that's gonna turn out eleven to twelve into two hundred million if we don't do something about it.
Uh Carmelo in Miami, I'm glad you called welcome to the EIB network.
Hey.
Rush, I'm appalled by what's going on here.
Uh this uh this Senate bill is gonna destroy our country.
This is going to be uh culture jack.
This is what's gonna happen to our country.
The 20 million will become eighty million, and we just cannot support it.
The taxpayers are the ones that are gonna have to support this.
The majority of them will be coming from Mexico.
This is not compassion.
This is amnesty.
This is stupidity.
What's gonna happen here is that we are gonna pay for 60 or 80 million people that we have to educate, we have to clothe them, we have to feed them, we have to pay for their medical expenses, all for the benefit of the corrupt government of Mexico.
There are more billionaires in Mexico than in Switzerland, and what's gonna happen is that the 20 billion in in money that that the illegals are sending over there right now, that's gonna end up becoming eighty to a hundred billion dollars a year.
And that's what's gonna support the government of Mexico.
They have dual citizenship, they can vote there, they can vote here.
We're gonna have the government of Mexico controlling and dictating our our our politics here in this country.
I am a Hispanic American.
I waited seven years to to to earn my visa to come to this country, and the rest of of these illegals do not speak for me.
They do not speak for anyone that has come here legally that has that has made it in this country.
Well, that's another thing.
That's seeing now you brought up uh you're I I identify a hundred percent what you're saying.
I just made that point.
You have in this program, you're gonna have people, whether you call it amnesty or not, who are gonna be put to the front of the line, even though they broke the rules getting in here because the horse is out of the barn.
There's nothing we can do.
We're not gonna deport them.
We can lock the barn, but yippee, the heart the horses are gone.
Uh as to the uh these protesters not speaking for you, it's they don't speak for illegal immigrants.
These are this anti-capitalist, pro-communist uh uh clowns that have taken over this illegal immigrant movement uh for the purposes of continuing their We Hate America message.
I gotta run back after this.
All right, first hour is in the can in the armored vehicle on the way to the secure location, a warehouse housing all the artifacts that'll make up the Limbaugh Broadcast Museum.
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