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May 26, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 26, 2006, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Okay, folks, I have I have figured it all out now.
Now it makes total sense.
This this uh the so-called uh immigration reform.
I've got it, I've got it figured out.
I will make it clear.
In fact, I was so close when I was making a joke about it early on.
I should learn every time I make jokes about what politicians are doing.
I end up being right.
It's Friday.
Let's uh kick it off, shall we?
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
As we head on into the Memorial Day weekend, Rush Limbaugh greeting all of you.
Glad to have you with us for today's edition of Open Line Friday.
And when we go to the phones, the program is all yours.
Meaning you can ask uh say anything, pretty much.
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Firmly ensconced here in the anchor chair, the prestigious Attila the Hun Chair at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Well, the uh Capitol Hill Police conducting a press conference.
Sergeant Kimberly Schneider from the Capitol Hill Police here.
There were uh shots fired at 1030 this morning, reports of shots fired in the uh Rayburn office building garage.
Uh, and members of the House have been told to stay in their hearing rooms.
The intelligence committee, House Intelligence Committee is meeting.
Uh they've been told to stay where they are.
Uh all staffers have been told to move to internal offices and don't leave.
Then they gave an all clear, then they resented the all-clear, and they told people to stay in there again.
Uh several law enforcement agencies are assisting in searches here for what's happened.
Some people supposedly smell gunpowder.
Um so nobody knows what really happened yet in the Capitol Hill press conference that is still ongoing, uh, basically told nobody anything new.
Uh nobody knows I just have a couple of questions.
Are federal um uh federal cops like the FBI allowed to go rescue legislative branch uh workers?
Uh uh.
If the and and if there's if there's any evidence of any crime in any office as a federal uh uh well, executive branch uh law enforcement people allowed to go anywhere near the Rayburn office building.
I a lot of separation of powers questions here, folks, that have to be asked.
Um and it's been an hour and a half, well, it's it's yeah, a little over an hour and a half hour and forty minutes, and and uh whatever they know they're not revealing.
Um maybe they don't know anything, but you know that a lot of people are gonna be asking, what are they covering up now?
What's going on in there?
The first question that an intrepid journalist asked, the uh the press uh spokesman for the Capitol Hill Police was is a member of Congress involved.
I don't have that information.
We don't know anything yet.
Uh we're still uh still conducting a tactical team investigations and uh so forth.
Uh Brian Ross has not reported that he is being held hostage at gunpoint by Speaker of the House, Denny Hastert.
Um, and uh we don't know where the whereabouts of Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, uh, in all of this.
But what a week.
What a week it has been.
We've got Vicente Fox, uh ladies and gentlemen, who uh supposedly doing his victory tour across part of the country.
You note the states that Vicente Fox is going to spend a lot of time in uh California.
You know what he's really doing here?
He's campaigning.
He's campaigning for his party in the Mexican presidential election because Mexican citizens that live here can vote in the Mexican presidential election.
This is it's a disguised campaign trip.
It's we're being told he's up here on an on a on an immigration tour uh and and so forth.
Uh, but it it really is is uh just a uh campaign tour.
Now, folks, as I say, I've I've I've got all this figured out.
And when I told you this wasn't about immigration, I was right.
And when I told you that what this is really all about is the Democrats wanting and needing some new victims, I was right.
And when I said this was all about politicians, particularly Democrats Wanting new voters, I was right.
But I was not a hundred percent right.
I was close to sum this up very simply.
What this bill is, this is not an immigration bill.
What is being done here is being done under the guise of immigration reform.
What this is is a huge attempt by certain politicians, mostly moderate and liberal Democrats and moderate Republicans, to expand the federal government,
to increase the numbers of people in poverty in this country by importing them via this immigration bill, which will set up the uh the need to expand the uh the social safety net in this country, which will then empower those who believe in big government.
It is also designed to provide a free flow of cheap labor uh for businesses that want to access it.
And uh with with the with the the few limits on uh legal immigration that this bill imposes, we're no longer talking just about Mexicans.
Uh you can you we now can uh import workers from all over the world uh who want to come in for the purposes of uh of achieving and accessing the American dream, and believe me, if uh if certain American businesses uh want to get labor cheaper than what they have to pay Mexican immigrants, they want to get them from Ethiopia, they want to get them from Sudan, here's an opportunity to do it.
It really is no more complicated than that.
I mean, that's that's what this is.
You cannot read this bill and conclude anything else.
This bill is senseless.
This bill is absolutely worthless.
This bill has you you there's a reason everybody's going nuts here, because there's no common sense in this bill when you look at it within the framework of immigration reform.
And I'll tell you what else is going on.
You guys in the House, I don't know if you're able to listen right now because you're locked down.
Well, some of you House members are not even in Washington.
You've you've taken your recess early.
I want you to I want you to listen to this very carefully because what's happening here, here let me listen to Dingy Harry.
Grab audio soundbite number one, and this will set up what I'm going to warn you people in the House about.
Dark clouds are forming on the horizon.
Influential members of the House of Representatives in Republican leadership are still pushing for the bill that they passed.
A bill that makes felons out of millions of immigrants and those who assist them, like a member of the clergy, a health care worker, social worker.
All right, now let me translate this for you.
What's happening here?
The Senate's passed their bill.
Dingy Harry is warning uh members of the House, there are dark clouds forming over the beautiful Senate amnesty horizon.
And these evil House Republicans could ruin everyone's day.
And if the House doesn't go along with this, and if the House doesn't accept this abomination of a piece of legislation called an immigration reform act, then what's going to happen is that conservatives, the moderates and the liberals, the moderates in the Republican Party, and the Liberals in the Democratic Party will blame conservatives for standing in the way and blocking immigration reform.
If the if they can't come to an agreement in the conference with the Senate, uh moderates are going to blame House Conservatives for this failure.
I think what's happening here, in addition to all that I've said, is that moderate Republicans are trying to destroy conservatives and conservatism.
And I think moder by moderate Republicans, let me give you some names.
John McCain, Arlen Spector.
Uh we'd have to throw uh Senator Lindsey Graham in there now.
And some of the Republicans in the administration, some of the Republicans in the White House.
I think they have been steaming over over the conservative wing taking over the Republican Party, the elites in the Republican Party, we've heard from on this debate, and they are trashing all of you as a bunch of unsophisticated boobs.
Me too.
Uh, and I think there's a battle for the heart and soul of Republican Party going on right now, and the conservatives uh who are uh largely the majority membership of that party are under assault.
Uh I I think that uh uh uh it is perfectly clear, at least to me, that uh that that's that's what's happening.
And it you can see that you can look at this this way.
I mean, make it easy.
This is we're back to 1976.
This is Ronald Reagan versus Gerald Ford.
Uh this is Barry Goldwater versus Nelson Rockefeller.
This is the compassionate conservative uh Republicans, i.e.
the moderates versus the conservatives.
There's that's all tied into this.
There's so many things being done here at once, uh, and this whole immigration bill is simply a rubric to disguise the uh the true intent.
Uh quick timeout will be back.
Oh, uh CNN and Fox are both reporting that two women came out of the Rayburn Gym.
The Rayburn Office uh building gym, saying a man with a gun is in the gym uh in the uh Rayburn House office building.
That's the latest uh that's being reported.
Quick timeout will continue here in just a second.
Stay with us.
Welcome back to Open Line Friday, El Rush Ball, and more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
All right, the uh two women were in the gym of the Rayburn office building, and they they they said that there was a man hiding in their white guy 511-175.
Uh obviously guy needs to eat something.
Um if you're 5'11, you weigh less than 240, you're thin.
Anyway, this guy is uh they're blandishing a gun around or hiding with a gun.
And uh journalists on television are warning us now, and we've we we we can't really go by these initial reports.
Why these people, though they're not professionals, uh they tend to get excited, and these first reports turn out to be oftentimes not true, and I'm just sitting here laughing like what we see on television news these days.
So anyway, the um uh hubub uh is continuing, and uh when we get anything new on this, we'll we'll pass on.
We're not we're not gonna jip any of this coverage because it's it's uh there's there's nothing uh somebody on a stretcher.
Uh but we don't know the next update's gonna be in about 55 minutes uh from now.
All right, more on this uh immigration uh business.
Uh you you you Republicans in the House have to understand what's going on here.
You are being targeted for destruction, and you are being targeted uh as as the bad guys if you don't go along with what the Senate uh uh has done in this so-called immigration bill.
There was a press conference yesterday that nobody covered.
Um we even we even joined a number of website uh uh video units, hoping to find coverage of it.
It was a love fest.
I don't have any audio of this for you yet.
Um it was a love fest.
Senators McCain and Hegel, Graham and Martinez inspector uh were backslapping and thanking Senators Kennedy Reed and Durbin, congratulating each other over what a great thing they'd done with this immigration bill.
And McCain said this said the most important message probably is to those 11 million people who are out there living in the shadows, without the protection of any of our laws of our society, millions of whom are being mistreated and not given, not receiving their God-given rights.
To them, we will provide a path to citizenship so you can come out of the shadows and educate yourselves and feed your families and become very profitable and very important members of our society.
Uh that is just patently absurd, folks.
This bill, if you I'm gonna tell you if you Republicans, if you if you lose in November, uh, it's not gonna be because of you.
If you if you stand strong here, if you if Republicans lose in November, it's gonna be because of the moderates and the in in the in the uh in the Senate and elsewhere in the House, and because of uh missteps taken by the administration, not because you stand up for your conservative principles.
If if you stand up for your conservative principles, uh uh you're you're that will not be why you lose.
You are going to have to trust me on this.
Uh that this is this is a this is a huge gambit that's being tried here, and you guys, the conservatives in the House are the targets.
Uh and I I'll tell you, I don't think that I can say this enough, folks.
I don't think I can drill this into people's heads enough because uh, you know, Lindsay Graham and McCain and so forth are are actually spinning it this way.
They're actually out there saying uh that uh the conservatives don't want to be the reasons that we're standing away of progress and success here.
And they're gonna they're gonna set you up for the uh for the blame uh if if the Senate bill does not maintain itself or remain intact by saying if you don't sign on to moderate, unpopular things like this uh that you will lose.
It's just the exact opposite.
This bill, this immigration bill was written by the open borders lobby, Middle Raza type groups.
You can't read this and escape that conclusion.
I mean, this bill includes all kinds of traps against enforcement.
It confers all kinds of rights on illegal aliens.
It's gonna make it very, very hard to enforce any of this.
It was written by lawyers.
I'm convinced this legislation's been written by lawyers who do this work day in and day out, who litigate on behalf of illegals and seek to change even the most arcane rules uh to their to their advantage.
Let me let me cut through all of the noise here, folks.
And just and just hit you right between the eyes.
These senators do not want to control immigration, they want to expand it.
They don't care whether it's illegal or legal immigration.
What they did was vote in uh in favor of changing our society so as to massively empower the federal government.
The federal government will have far more control over wages than before.
Entitlement programs are going to have to expand in order to um uh accommodate all these new arrivals and their children.
Taxes are gonna have to go up in order to pay for all this.
Wealth will be redistributed from the uh from the middle class to a new class of poor that we are welcoming in here, as Senator McCain has so excitedly said in his press conference yesterday.
That is exactly what this is about.
It's all being done under the rubric of immigration reform.
What we're actually doing is importing poverty in order to enhance big government.
That is precisely what is going on here.
Uh I I cannot emphasize this enough.
When it we went through all the details of this bill, you can't possibly assume uh from reading this that this is actually or conclude that this is about immigration.
It just isn't.
And I have been right about that from the uh from the get-go.
I mean, uh the uh editors at National Review have written a little editorial today on on their website.
Uh and and I mean, the the Senate wouldn't even vote down the earned income tax credit uh for for uh uh illegal immigrants that uh uh that bop in here.
So uh as a result of this.
So the but here you you're just gonna have you watch what happens if this bill remains as is.
The impact on the legal system incalculable, the impact on the economy, on the bureaucracy, local and uh uh federal level public services, the entitlement crisis.
Uh it is it is a massive, massive uh pro-poverty bill.
Bring in some people here in poverty, get a number of new victims.
Our economy's doing well, uh, and there are fewer and fewer victims, fewer and fewer people in poverty.
We need this.
It's the country club Republicans and the blue bloods trying to take back the party from the conservatives.
Uh compassionate conservatism versus uh uh conservatism, Ford versus Reagan, Goldwater versus Rockefeller.
I mean, this is um it this is where we are.
I make no bones about it.
The uh the blue blood country clubbers trying to take back control of the party.
They've been seething ever since Reagan was so dominant and so victorious.
And they really weren't happy with the Newt revolution.
Uh that that that uh we've seen this just in the last three months uh in this uh immigration bill.
And by the way, there's a last-minute change, it was a last-minute change in the bill.
It got ratified, and and this exposes everything.
Remember uh when the 370 mile fence on a border was proposed and suggested a 500-mile uh vehicle barricade or blockade.
Christopher Dodd said, well, wait a minute.
Wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
We can we can't we can't do this uh without consultation with the government of Mexico.
Uh, guess what ended up in the bill?
Just that consultations uh between the United States and Mexican authorities at the federal, state, and local levels concerning the construction of additional fencing and related border security structures along the United States.
Mexico border shall be undertaken prior to commencing any new construction.
So before we can build the fence, we've got to consult with Vicente Fox.
And the uh state uh uh governors, whatever they're called in Mexico, and the local people on their side of the border in order to solicit the views of affected communities in Mexico to lessen tensions and foster greater understanding and stronger cooperation on this and other important issues of mutual concern.
The Dodd amendment was included in a manager's amendment offered by Senator Specter, which included several additional amendments.
It was adopted by the Senate.
So even the fence will have to essentially uh get the approval after consultation with officials throughout government layers in Mexico.
Uh believe me, folks, this is not an immigration bill, and it never was.
We'll be back after this.
Stay with us.
So we do here.
We make the complex understandable.
Uh now the staffers and others remaining in the Rayburn office building have been told to lock the doors.
Next briefing at 115.
You think I'm making all this up, eh?
Our buddy Jim Rutenberg with an analysis piece on the front page of the New York Times today.
Compassionate conservatives versus angry doctrinaire hardliners.
The negotiations between the White House and Congress that'll follow the Senate's passage on Thursday, could decide not just how the nation confronts illegal immigration, but also what strain of conservatism the Republican Party carries into the midterm elections and beyond.
Will it be the compassionate brand Mr. Bush considers crucial?
In this case, by signaling support for a provision in the Senate bill that would give most illegal immigrants an opportunity to become legal?
Or will it be the more doctrinaire variety embraced by much of Mr. Bush's party in the House, one that shuns anything that smacks of amnesty for illegal immigrants and seeks to criminalize them further.
So once again, here's the New York Times, and this is but but they're running a money here portraying the anti-illegal immigration side as conservative hardliners, doctrinaire, cold-hearted, mean-spirited, cruel, bigoted, sexist, racist, homophobes.
I'm telling you, that's how this is being set up.
And it's being done so with glee and the support of moderate Republicans everywhere.
I cannot emphasize to you just how much resentment there has been for the longest time within the Republican Party for conservatives by the country club blue blood set.
I've shared stories with you of how I personally have encountered this.
Dana Rorabacher yesterday in the Washington Times had a piece called the Shamnesty Legislation.
And he says this shamnesty bill spells out the level of contempt the Senate has for middle class Americans.
This comprehensive bill includes in-state tuition for illegal aliens.
Your kid has to pay full freight if they cross state lines.
Illegal aliens who break into the country don't.
All temporary guest workers have to be paid the prevailing wage.
American citizens do not have to be paid prevailing wage.
All agricultural guest workers under this Senate bill cannot be fired by their employers except for what the bill calls just cause.
However, American agricultural workers could be fired for any reason.
And again, in the agriculture business, just to give you an example, 24% of the jobs are held by illegal aliens, which means 76% are held by Americans, and yet we are told these are jobs Americans won't do.
In the Senate bill, illegal aliens are made eligible for social security.
Not only will they receive retirement benefits, their children will receive survivor benefits should the parents pass away.
This is at a time when we are trying to keep social security solvent for the next generation.
And therein lies a huge key.
Up Capitol Building has been reopened after another lockdown.
That's the Capitol Building, not the Rayburn building.
No word on that, but the Capitol building has been reopened after yet another lockdown.
Taxpayer dollars will go to radical immigrant rights groups so they can help illegal aliens adjust their status.
Millions of your tax dollars are go to the same groups that organize those rallies where people who came here illegally waved foreign flags and thumbed their noses at our laws.
This is the expansion of government on parade.
This is the importation of new people in poverty, necessitating an expansion of the safety net and expansion in tax rates to pay for it, another transfer of wealth and an expansion of government.
Uh in order to accomplish all this, thereby uh cementing even more dependency among these new arrivals to the phones, because it's open line Friday.
Steve in Rochester, Minnesota, great to have you on the program, sir.
Um my question is the following.
How is it that John McCain can win seventy-six or seventy some percent of the vote in the last election and and still um live in a border state that and and has this immigration policy and and anger all these Republicans?
How how does he win by such a large margin?
And secondly, um how can any conservative wing of the party get any leverage on this guy to make changes when he wins with such huge margins?
Well, uh the two things.
McCain did not win uh the 2000 presidential primary, so he doesn't win every election.
And he really he won the New Hampshire primary, and and not much after that.
And remember, in order to accomplish this, he was out there getting Democrats to cross and vote uh on primary day.
Uh in Arizona, uh you'd have to look at a number of factors.
He gets a lot of Democrat votes out there, he gets a lot of independent votes, and because he's such a rock solid incumbent, he doesn't have that much opposition uh every six years when he runs.
But uh examining how he does in Arizona is not the same thing as examining uh how he might do in another presidential primary in two thousand seven, two thousand eight.
Okay, thank you.
That's uh I knew I could help Duke in New York City.
Nice to have you, sir.
Welcome to Open Line Friday.
Rush, longtime listener, first time get through her.
Yes, sir.
Um I think uh Hitler said that if you tell a lie long enough and loud enough, it becomes the truth.
No, that was uh that was uh Joseph Goebbels and a number of liberal Democrats.
Okay, that's a distinction without a difference.
Any socialist and communist has said that, yeah.
Yeah.
Uh well the the point is that uh uh we we were all saying we can't deport 12 million illegal aliens.
But I thought to myself, what is the most successful police force in in the world?
It's the Secret Service.
Because we have only lost three presidents in a hundred and forty-one years to assassination.
And that's because that's all they do.
They don't roll drunks, they don't pull over speeders, they just protect the president.
So if we hired 10,000 feds, and that's all they did was to hunt down and and arrest illegal aliens and set a margin for uh two hundred thousand in a year.
That the math is that that is one agent making three arrests a week.
Duke, Duke, I I I uh uh uh look, I hate to interrupt here, but you've got to understand this is not what this is about.
I mean, it's it's it I I don't dispute that it could be done, but it ain't gonna happen.
And it just it just isn't gonna happen.
Uh you have to understand this is not about immigration.
This is not nobody uh in that has even on the House side.
There's not there's not a serious uh movement here for deportation.
Uh the the the compromise on that is let's just really shore up the border.
But but that's uh that that's that's been tossed aside.
It's it's doable.
If if we if we substituted the word illegal alien with child molester, none of this would fly.
None of this would fly.
Let's give child molesters uh uh assured jobs where they have to uh make the minimum wage.
Let's give child molesters uh uh free lessons in English.
Let's give child molesters i it wouldn't happen.
Uh, illegal.
No, I I agree with you 100 percent.
I'm just telling you this is not about it's not about i immigration.
You you uh you couldn't w what if you wanted to deport all the child molesters in the country?
Let's talk about that, yeah.
Well, you you think you could?
Uh uh numbers, sure you could.
But you know, the the point is it's it's only not doable because we don't set our minds to do it.
Uh no, I agree.
I uh I th but uh uh yes.
Uh well when you say we, uh you gotta say they no, you've got to say they.
Okay.
Okay.
You're right.
I guarantee if if if some if some leader stood up and said this is an outrage, what's happening to our cultures is an outrage, and I'm gonna start immediately trying to find the people of violating our existing laws, and we're gonna send them back where they came from.
Um there'd be a lot of opposition, but people will be inspired to think, okay, if we go we put a man on a moon in ten years, we can't deport this number of people.
You couldn't do it in one year.
I mean, it would take it take some time.
But it's my math, it would be seven years you could do it in.
Yeah, you can do it in.
Uh you start to sound like Clinton.
We could balance a budget in three years.
No, but the point is, no, if you just use my math, you could do it in seven, but it's also probably less because there'd be attrition, people would die.
You know, and you dry up the jobs, people won't come.
Well, something would happen if you ever really, if we embarked on such a program, can you imagine what it would cause out there in the rest of the country among the uh illegal population?
It would it would have a it'd have sort of a domino effect.
But look, folks, I mean, uh, one of the things you have to consider, this this is an amnesty bill, and this is gonna this is gonna increase uh the uh desire of even more people around the world, not just Mexicans.
We're not just talking Mexicans anymore with this bill.
It uh uh this is gonna increase the desire of all kinds of people to come here illegally because I mean it is said, and I'm sure you've heard that during the course of the many months of this debate.
But rush, but rush, we all are a nation of immigrants.
We are a part of the grand melting pot.
Yeah, yeah, true, but I don't know any of my ancestors as immigrants who got the deal these illegals are getting uh with with all the access to health care and education and exemption from paying taxes for three years.
It's incredible.
Uh I don't know any previous generation of immigrants who uh got this kind of a deal.
You gotta understand, folks.
I mean, I I'm uh I've been dancing around this for three months now, and it's what now that after the fact I see it, it's so senseless when you look at this as an immigration bill.
There's nothing in this aggr.
Uh immigration reform, this is pro-immigr.
There's this is the exact opposite of what you thought these people were getting uh together on Capitol Hill to do.
They've come up with a plan to expand all this.
Legal and illegal.
It's what this is.
Now, when you understand that, then you start to okay, why would they want that?
And then my analysis will make, as it always does, 100% clear pure sense.
What are you laughing at in there?
What is what in the world is so funny?
Well it is a circus.
It is it is a circus.
You got I don't know.
We still have people.
Well, we can deport them.
You should have seen my email last night in the interview with Tony Snow.
Guy sends me Well, I heard you agree with the White House that that we don't need to deport these people.
We're gonna assimilate them and so forth.
You've you've you've caved.
You've done a what?
I said, Oh my gosh.
I know, you know, it is a circus, which is why I am trying to bring some simple common sense to this today, folks.
I'm trying to make it as crystal clear as possible as to what this actually is.
Gotta take a break now.
We'll be back.
Open line Friday will continue in uh just a moment.
And we're back cutting edge societal evolution, Rush Limbaugh.
It is farcical.
This whole thing is a farce, folks.
In fact, I'm even a little embarrassed that I got caught up debating it on the merits.
I mean, I saw it, my instincts are right on the money, and I was making jokes about it, and it turns out the jokes are true.
When I said the Democratic Party's out of victims and need more victims, uh it's true.
That's why we're just importing victims here.
We're importing victims that are gonna be in poverty.
And and and listen to McCain, listen to these people speak.
These illegal aliens are being characterized as super citizens, folks.
They do work that you won't do, you elitist spoiled rotten American legal.
You won't do what really needs to be done for this country.
Oh, but we're gonna be saved.
No.
Uh by by these super citizens uh crossing the border.
Um they don't commit any crimes, they don't drain resources.
Uh they've been built up as super citizens superior to you.
Uh and as some, you know, uh uh downtrodden group wandering aimlessly through deserts, thunderstorms, hurricanes.
I mean, the the the the the future, the backbone of America here is how they're being portrayed.
Now, some of you, I'm sure, and I will admit this.
Some of you listening to this, uh, you've been listening, you've been listening to the whole program, you're listening to what I'm saying about it, and you're scratching your head saying, I haven't heard this anywhere else.
I I I haven't heard this.
It's Rush.
My friends, as I have been saying a lot lately, don't doubt me.
Don't doubt me.
For three months, I've been telling Brian that the audio in here was distorted and it was too hot.
Nope, everything's cool.
Went up to New York.
I said, Brian, it's working up here.
There's something.
He finally went in air, found we were 6 DB hot.
Don't doubt me.
I know one of the reasons that you're confused.
One of the reasons.
Look, I have here the AP story, contrasting what's in the Senate bill and what's in the House Bill.
You want to hear how they portray what's in the Senate bill?
Allows illegal immigrants who've been in the country five years or more to remain, continue working and eventually become legal permanent residents and citizens after paying at least $3,250 in fines and fees and back taxes and learning English.
They don't tell you there's no enforcement mechanism here for any of this.
They don't have to learn English.
All they have to do is in a roll and say that they're going to go.
No monitoring if they ever show up, it doesn't matter.
Uh the 3250 bucks, they have eight years to pay it.
Doesn't tell you that.
Uh requires illegal immigrants in the U.S. between two and five years to go to a point of entry at the border and file an application return.
Anybody want to bet that the numbers that actually do this can be counted on both hands?
Because who's gonna f why what in the world's gonna cause okay?
I've only been here uh two, three years, so I where do I go?
What's a port of interest?
You think they're gonna stand up and identify themselves?
There's no enforcement mechanism.
Requires uh or orders deportation of illegal immigrants convicted of a felony or three misdemeanors, no matter how long they have been in the United States.
Once again, uh the law currently on the books is if you're here illegally, you get deported.
This is an improvement in the deal.
Now you can stay here illegally, but if you get caught in the middle of a felony, all you gotta do is go to La Raza or some uh immigrant lawyer and uh get this litigated, and then the case will be through because nobody's gonna want to mess with it because there's no interest in this bill in deporting anything or anybody.
You go through this.
I've got a whole bunch more things.
You will not find in the AP list of highlights of what's in the Senate bill, one word about the Social Security identity theft fraud that is endorsed and permitted.
If an illegal alien has stolen a social security card uh number, and has uh opened a bank account, gotten a job, uh uh a driver's license, any number of things, uh, no biggie.
No penalty.
In fact, not only is there no penalty, why Senator McCain has made it plain that as a compassionate society, that person who's been paying taxes and bore taxes, you know what taxes will get all their benefits.
They'll get all their social security benefits, and their kids will get survivor benefits.
After having stolen somebody else's identity in order to do it, that's in the bill.
You want to tell me this is an immigration bill, don't insult my intelligence.
It's nothing of the sort.
You go out and steal somebody's identity and steal somebody's credit card and find out what happens to you.
You go say, hey, you know what?
These illegals only have to pay back taxes for three of the five years.
I'm I want I uh can I can I can I not pay my taxes for like five years and only have to pay back three of them?
You ask that for yourself if you can if you can do this.
This is just it's a farce.
It is.
And by the way, three of the four Democrats have voted against the bill up for re-election.
The Republicans up for re-election voted against the bill.
Uh that'll tell you what's really going.
They know where the American people are on this.
Back after this.
Now it's being said that the uh guy with a gun in the Rayburn office building gym might have been an undercover officer.
Uh so a little drips and drabs keep coming out here.
Next uh official update uh in about a half hour from now.
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