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Feb. 19, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 19, 2007, Monday, Hour #3
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And welcome back to the EIB network to the Russian Limbaugh program.
Rush, of course, back tomorrow after being out with a little bit of a cold.
And we're going to welcome him back.
I'll tell you, this has been quite a wild weekend.
And one of the things that's happened developing last week when Rush had it the first day is this story about Bank of America.
Bank of America announcing in the Wall Street Journal last week that the only place it can expand now in the consumer credit market is into the, well, illegal alien market.
The 20 million people or whatever the number is of people who are here illegally.
Apparently they've saturated the market for law-abiding people, so now they're into the illegal alien market.
So on a pilot program, there was a couple of branches in L.A., now they expanded it to 51 of their branch banks in Los Angeles, that they said if you don't have a Social Security number, now keep in mind, you've gone in to get a credit card.
You know what happens, okay?
They take the Social Security number, all the information about you.
They run the credit check.
They turn you inside out.
I mean, you have no private life.
You go to get a credit card.
They're going to know everything about you because they've got to judge whether or not you're going to make the payments.
I mean, right?
No.
Now there's a new policy.
If you're illegally in the country and you don't have a Social Security card and you just give us a name, any name would do, and open with any kind of ID.
In fact, we'll take the Matricula Consular, which is the Consul General of Mexico, the government of Mexico, gives out these ID cards, complete with a picture, to illegals in this country to help them to have some kind of ID.
Now, they're so loosely given out that, ladies and gentlemen, without revealing exactly how this happened, I have one.
And I'm legally in the country, so far as my mother knows.
So this is, you know, and not a very secure ID.
So Bank of America has been opening up checking accounts with the Matricula Consular or any other kind of whatever ID.
And of course, the smart illegals already have the fake social security number.
You understand that.
In fact, last year, the Social Security Administration reported that there were 9.5 million W-2s for which, as they put it, the taxpayer and the number did not coincide.
In other words, it was a complete identity ripoff or fake or whatever.
So those folks who aren't smart enough to get themselves a social security number and bypass all this, Bank of America wants them.
So Bank of America says, you just come in with whatever ID you have, with whatever name you choose, and we'll open a checking account.
And if you don't kite any checks for three months, if you're sober and honest and responsible, we'll give you a credit card, $500 limit, $99, and we'll extort 21, 22% out of you, of course.
But no questions.
In other words, no real identification.
And the Bank of America actually has the chutzpah to suggest that they're in compliance with the Patriot Act, which toughened the terms of giving credit and establishing accounts and all that after it was found out that Al-Qaeda and the other terrorist groups were very adept at learning our financial system and using it to funnel a lot of money into their terrorist activities.
So the Patriot Act says, no, no, no, you've got to have ID.
So the Bank of America says, yeah, we're asking for ID.
Yeah, matricula consular and all those great IDs.
Yeah.
No.
No.
So there was quite a backlash over last week, and it was kind of interesting because Neil Cavuto over at Fox was trying to get Bank of America to come on all last week to make a statement about this.
They wouldn't even make a statement about it.
We tried to get him on the local program.
Can you make a statement on this?
Will you come on and tell us why in the world would you do this?
Why would you require American citizens to document who they are, but not people who have broken into our country for the purpose of getting credit?
How crazy is that?
So we had quite a to-do about the Bank of America around here, and it's probably national because they refuse to say anything.
It seems to me that since the banks, many banks are already given mortgages to illegals, imagine what you have to go through to get a mortgage.
Did this happen to you?
I mean, you turn, again, your life inside out.
Whoever's given you that mortgage knows exactly who you are, knows exactly what you have, exactly what payment you're able to pay based on your income and your assets and the value of the home you're trying to purchase and all that stuff.
They have to know that.
Not from illegals.
Not from illegals.
That's crazy.
So this thing is kind of turning around.
In fact, the privileges now, if you're in California, and I think many other states, if you're an illegal, if you're illegally here, you've broken into the country.
There are now so many goodies for you.
I mean, you get credit without having to cough up your real ID.
You get into the University of California on a resident's lower tuition where a citizen from Arizona, say, is going to pay a lot higher.
Your kids get medical care.
You get free lunch and breakfast at the schools.
You get the K-12 education.
We're going to find Section 8 housing for you.
We're going to give you on and on and on.
The list is endless of the subsidies we give for people to break into our country.
I think what's going to happen, let me take it another step further.
I bet it will be this legislative session in California and maybe other states, in which there'll be a bill introduced to make it illegal to impersonate an illegal.
Because the benefits are so great to be an illegal, I think some citizens are going to be saying, I'd like to get a credit card without telling you who I am.
I'd like to get a Section 8 house with subsidized rental.
Gee, can I think it won't be very long before it will be more advantageous to be illegally in this country than legally in this country?
Wow.
How far are we going to go down this road?
Apparently, it's going to keep going because the Bush administration, and I got into some of this last week with you, has gone after the Border Patrol agents, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compillon, two Border Patrol agents down near El Paso, were on the border one day, doing their thing.
And by the way, their thing has kind of changed from what you think.
You think the Border Patrol is, well, patrolling the border.
Right?
No.
The Border Patrol is supposed to stop people who are running drugs or people who, you know, maybe have an AK-47 or whatever.
But, you know, the workers who are just coming here to work to do jobs, Roger, that Americans just won't do.
You know, we don't want to stop them.
And when we do, I mean, it's your fault.
These Border Patrol agents, come on.
What are you thinking?
So Ramos and Compillon taking their job a little seriously.
They see a van.
Turns out it has 740 pounds of marijuana in it.
The guy runs when he sees he's being apprehended by the Border Patrol.
He's running back toward the border after scuffling with one of the agents.
And gets shot, maybe by one of the agents.
We really haven't done that.
Maybe by one of the agents.
That isn't what the evidence shows.
But at trial, at trial, a jury finds these guys guilty of violating the illegal alien drug smugglers' civil rights, mind you.
And the judge puts the two Border Patrol agents, Ramos and Compillon, 11 and 12 years respectively into the federal penitentiary, into the penitentiary where the very people they've been putting in jail for drug running and killing people and raping and robbing and et cetera, et cetera, where those inmates are.
Ramos is beat up the first week he's in the jail in Mississippi, federal pen.
He's put in general population, mind you, general population.
Five illegals beat him up.
That's the Bush administration on the border.
We're going to talk more about this.
I've got some quotes from the U.S. Attorney down in Texas, Johnny Sutton, an old friend of Bush's who was sent down there to do these kinds of enforcements against law enforcement, taking the word of the illegal alien over the Border Patrol and having this kind of impact on the morale of our law enforcement officers.
There's an incredible story developing in Texas on this.
In the meantime, here's Victoria in Colorado Springs on the Rush Program.
Hi, Victoria.
How you doing, Roger?
Okay.
Third-time caller, long, long-time listener.
Thank you.
And I was calling, you were talking about illegal aliens and stealing identities.
And I'm not sure.
I can't say that it was actually stolen by an illegal alien, but my daughter's wallet was stolen back in November.
And when she went just this week to try to get her own cell phone, found out that there's already somebody using her Social Security number and already has an account with this particular cell phone company.
Wow.
So for her to get it removed, she has to get in touch with a cell phone company, prove to them that she's the real Madison, and then hopefully, with any luck at all, she can get an account with this cell phone company.
Millions of Americans have had their identities stolen.
I can't say it's all by illegal aliens, but one of the huge groups of people that are benefiting from this are the people who are making money.
And believe me, I got to tell you, these illegals are very entrepreneurial.
If they find out there's a demand for Social Security numbers, they know where to go steal them and sell them and make money.
I mean, there's a giant underground economy at, you know, in L.A., at all the parks in downtown.
You can go in there and it's about 20 bucks.
You can buy a Social Security card.
Well, what makes it interesting was when we went down to our local Social Security office to get the new card, I told the lady we would like a new number.
And she basically told me it's like getting an act of Congress to get a new number.
And that what we would have to do, now I'm standing in the Social Security office.
I'm going to have to call the Social Security Administration to tell them that the card was stolen, but she couldn't do it there because of the bureaucracy involved in it all.
Well, you don't want a new number.
Because your old number, your daughter's been working.
She's had pluses on her retirement.
She's used it to get loans.
She's used it to get accounts.
You don't want a new number.
You want your own number back.
That's true.
But even just the fact that we were standing right there.
You're right there.
And the bureaucracy is so deep that we had to go home and call the Social Security Administration, which we had just been in, to officially file it as lost.
Yeah, I know.
Did you get this straightened out, Victoria?
The poor woman just looked at me as if to say, I'm just the messenger.
Did you get this straightened out?
No, we didn't.
She just found out yesterday that her Social Security card had been used.
So she's got to work all day today because she doesn't have school.
No, you want your old number back, Victoria.
Victoria, Victoria, just get the old number back.
That's the only thing you need to do because you've got to do that pronto, as they say, near the border.
Sven in Saratoga, New York is next.
Sven, welcome to the Rush Schlimbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi, thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
I'm listening to all of these benefits that they're giving to illegal immigrants, and I am trying to be a lawful immigrant here in the U.S. I'm originally from Sweden, and I've been here since 2002.
And every time I hear about how they're giving free health care, how they're giving out credit cards, housing benefits, all of that to illegal immigrants, it's like a slap in the face on me and everybody else who are trying to do it the legal way.
I can't even begin to tell you how offended I feel about that.
I don't mind going through the legal process with all the hurdles.
I don't mind paying thousands of dollars to the government and to lawyers and all that, because if America wants me to do that, to prove that I'm worthy of living here and becoming a U.S. citizen eventually, then I'll do everything I can to meet those requirements.
But please do not give away perks to people who break the law every day because that's like, I don't know, it's like they're opening the back door in Walmart to let the shoplifters in, but they're checking the bags of people who pay up at the register.
I mean, I'm infuriated by it.
Sven, you should be.
You should be infuriated.
We're infuriated by it.
All I can say to you as a legal immigrant to this country is: God bless you, welcome.
Thank you for doing it the right way.
America is built on legal immigration.
It's being destroyed by illegal immigration.
And I, for one, am going to continue to speak up about this until we get some progress out of it.
You know, and I thank you for sticking with it.
They've made it as difficult as possible to be a legal immigrant and as easy as possible to be illegal for reasons that I think we can get into.
But, Sven, thank you and welcome to the country.
I'm Roger Hedgecock.
We're going to take a break and be right back on the Rush Show after this.
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Here's RJ in Casper, Wyoming.
RJ, welcome to The Rush Show.
Thank you very much.
I'm talking to you from a cell phone out here in big, wonderful Wyoming.
We love it.
Go ahead.
Well, regarding the Bank of America credit card, recently, of course, we got our bill, and after hearing of the fact of what they're doing with these credit cards, this $500 account for illegals, I decided that rather than fund them, the wife and I just made the checkout yesterday to pay the bill off, cut the cards in half,
and my wife put a note in there that said, we thought it was the Bank of America instead of the Bank of Mexico.
RJ, thank you very much.
That ends our relationship with the credit card company.
I appreciate your call, R.G.
I think a lot of people are having that same impact.
And by the way, as we're talking about illegals, this issue, and I had shared with you the Harris poll saying that 55%, the highest number in the poll, felt that in the next five years, the most important issue would be the impact of illegal immigration on this country.
Senator John McCain, well, could have recently had this to say.
Buenos Dias, I am John McCain.
I'd like to address the concerns that some undocumented immigrants may have about the bill that Ted and I have written.
We have heard your voices in the streets and have acted quickly.
No longer will undocumented workers like Pablo and his family have to live in the shadow.
Today we march.
Tomorrow evolved.
Yes, but you must also pay $2,000 in fine, see?
All back taxes, see?
Submit to a background check and go to English class.
Yes.
Then and only then can you become an American citizen.
Amnesty!
Female McCain!
McCain a Presidente!
McCain El Presidente!
No, it's not amnesty itself.
Okay, whatever.
Here's a yard sign.
Speaking of yard, so you'll do the whole thing for 15 bucks, huh?
See?
What a deal.
I can't get any Americans to do two days of work for that.
See?
So a little John McCain there.
By the way, the latest out of Washington, Jose Esteban Aleman, more than a thousand, one among the 1,000 undocumenteds arrested at Swift and Company, remember this raid.
Turns out the fake identification confiscated during the raids has been traced to taxpaying Americans, some of it.
Some of it has been traced to prisoners.
It turns out that in the prisons, there is a well-organized sale of Social Security numbers by prisoners who feel they no longer need them to the illegals because many of the Swift and Company workers had Social Security numbers of people who were, well, incarcerated and not able to work at the plant under the current circumstances.
And they had to find that out by raiding this thing.
Unbelievable.
Let's see.
If I got time, I want to get to Sharon in Alexandria, Virginia.
Sharon, welcome to the Rush Show.
Roger, there is one way to get Bank of America, and that is with proposing banking regulations.
The Republicans in Congress, especially people like Ken Credo and Duncan Hunter, would be glad to propose a bill that put banking regulations on all banks.
And the Democrats would go along with it in a heartbeat.
I wonder about that, Sharon, because the Patriot Act already provides that there should be identification.
These guys are so closely tied to the regulators.
The Bank of America is so powerful with them that the Treasury Department regulations that came out of the Patriot Act actually allowed identification, such as the matricula consular card, that in fact is not identification at all.
So you have this 1984-ish world in which here's the Congress saying, tighten up.
The regulations saying tighten up, but we'll accept this.
And the impact being they didn't tighten up at all.
They loosened up to allow people that you don't even know who they are, where they are, where they came from, or anything about them, or whether that's even their real name, getting credit in the United States, establishing checking accounts in the United States, and again, opening the door to all kinds of things, including the kind of terrorism funding and financing that the Patriot Act was designed to get rid of.
Full circle, folks.
Back after this.
Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh Program.
Roger Hedgecock in for Rush.
Rush Back tomorrow.
And a lot of information at rushlimbaugh.com, where you can see, among other things, Rush as President of the United States on the new Fox Show half-hour news hour.
In the meantime, let's get back to the phones here.
Craig in Omaha, Nebraska.
Next.
Craig, welcome to the Rush Show.
Hello, Roger.
Thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Yeah, I heard something on the news the other day that kind of disturbed me quite a bit.
It's about this, about President Bush wanting to bring 7,000 Iraqis over here to the United States, you know, to seek asylum.
And I think he's, at the same time, I think he said something about he doesn't want to keep the war over there, but instead of bringing it over here, what's your comments and opinions on that?
Absolutely insane to allow any Iraqis into this country while we're spending a trillion dollars to make a country for them that sane people can live in in the 21st century.
They should be told that they can either pick up a rifle and some ammunition and go back to and serve on the side of the government of Iraq or whatever else they would like to do to help build that country, but they cannot come to the United States.
I think it's just dead wrong.
Now, we've had within that comment, let me just tell you that across this border, with where I am in San Diego with Tijuana, we have had a number of Christian Iraqis come across this border, some illegally, trying to find refuge from, and there hasn't been a recognition of their problem, which is, of course, that the Muslims of all stripes are trying to kill them.
And they're trying to flee for religious reasons, having nothing to do with the current problem in Iraq, but having to do with a long-standing problem.
So these Christians, by the way, in Iraq, speak Aramaic, which is the language that Jesus himself spoke.
They are among the earliest Christians ever.
They became Christians way back at the beginning.
They have been, some of this, they have been refugees from Israel, from the Palestine area for many centuries ago.
Some have been in Iraq, and that's where this little group comes from.
But the general idea of just opening our borders, saying, well, look, if it's too tough in Iraq, you guys can leave, but our troops can't, is not going to, it doesn't fly with me.
I don't think it flies with anybody.
All right, Craig, thanks for the call.
I feel better saying that.
1-800-282-2882, got it off my chest.
Here's, is it Tion in Miami?
Hi there.
Yes, it is.
Good to speak to you.
Thanks for calling.
We have to put a stop to this.
I was telling you, Screener, I, too, am an immigrant.
I'm from Jamaica.
And it took me roughly from 1975 to when we came over here until I graduated from technical school.
It was not until like 1995 I finally got my citizenship.
And you know something?
I don't have any regrets.
There are people of my family that in order for them to do it the right way, they've had to go back to Jamaica on a few occasions to straighten out the paperwork and then come back.
But at least they have done it the right way.
I don't know.
These immigrants are no better than the other immigrants that come in here and do it the right way.
And yet people get so angry with Tom Tang Credo for what he said.
You know, if you were to come down here to South Florida, you'd see the differences in how the government runs the local government versus governments in other cities.
There is inefficiency down here that it really, really falls behind what a true American city should be like.
And people don't like it when I say it, but I think this guy, Tom Tang Credo, may be onto something.
I understand he formed an exploratory committee.
I don't know if he's very serious about running, but if he is, go Tom Tang Credo, go Tom Tang Credo, go Tom Tang Credo, because we need somebody that's going to stand up and enforce the laws and make it true across the board so that there is a standard and a rule.
Because if you don't do that, what's the purpose of having these laws in the first place if you're not going to enforce them?
Amen to all of that, Tion, and I appreciate it.
Thank you for being who you are and what you've done.
Welcome to the United States.
I'm sorry it took so long to become a legal immigrant.
You sound like a stand-up American to me, and I'm glad you're here.
Yes, I'm glad to be here.
All right, Tion, thank you.
Thanks for calling.
All right, look, ladies and gentlemen, I don't think we need to beat this into the ground, but the fact is that in this country, we make it difficult to do the right thing with regard to immigration.
We make it impossible sometimes.
He's talking about a 20-year period to get his, and I've heard horror story after horror story in our own area, seven years, nine years, et cetera, hundreds, in some cases thousands of dollars for lawyers, et cetera, to try to do the right thing, follow all the rules, become a citizen the right way.
We've made it as difficult and as bureaucratic and as expensive as possible.
And then we just turn our back at the border and people pour in here, including many people we have no idea where they're from, including in this decade alone, some 65,000, I think the number is, of what the Border Patrol calls OTMs or other than Mexican.
In other words, people who are from other countries than Mexico or Central America, most of them from nations, and there's a huge number from nations that are on our terrorist watch list.
Just an incredible, incredible situation.
And I also wanted to get to this other story about that.
This is the where did I put it?
And I want to bring you up to, oh, and this was the classic.
Here it is.
This was the classic.
After I told you the story of Ramos and Compillon, these Border Patrol agents, who are doing their job, who've apprehended a drug smuggler, an illegal alien drug smuggler, for crying out loud.
Turns out this guy's 29.
He's been drug smuggling since 14.
He, according to his mother, never goes to the United States without a gun.
He's a direct threat to these Border Patrol agents, doesn't mind shooting them in the least.
They shoot at him.
He runs across the border.
They didn't even think they hit him because he ran across the border.
Kept running after the shots were fired.
They didn't think they hit him.
In fact, the ballistics test on the bullet that was finally recovered from his posterior by an Army surgeon in El Paso at your expense did not, in fact, conclusively match to the bullets from the service revolvers of either of the two Border Patrol agents.
So, you know, a lot of this evidence that the Bush administration is saying, oh, no, well, they shot an unarmed man in the back.
Well, according to the entry actually of the bullet, if this is when he was shot, he was turned around, his arm was up, and they said the Border Patrol agent said they saw a shiny thing in his hand, and he was many yards away.
So, you know, we're going to accept the illegal alien story, contrary to his mother's assertion that no, I didn't have a gun, and we're not going to accept the word of the two Border Patrol officers.
Oh, but Roger, they covered up.
They committed a crime, and then they proved their guilt by covering up.
They collected the shell casings.
They didn't file a report.
Well, the truth is, their supervisor was there.
Their supervisor, Border Patrol supervisor, was there.
They told him they were collecting the shells because they didn't think they hit anything and didn't want to get bogged down in the rest of the day in paperwork.
So they collected the shells.
The supervisor agreed to that.
In fact, three Border Patrol officers who were given immunity to testify against their fellow Border Patrol officers, Compion and Ramos, have now been fired from the Border Patrol for changing their story so many times.
And still, Johnny Sutton still is out there, the U.S. attorney, you know, George Bush's buddy, appointed by the president, on the border, putting all of his resources into putting law enforcement in jail at the word of the lawbreakers.
Here's, let's see, this is cut number seven, Johnny Sutton.
Here's his story on why he gave immunity, giving immunity to the drug dealer so he would come in and testify against the Border Patrol agents.
I also understand you granted immunity to this very same drug dealer on a subsequent drug deal.
No, it's not accurate.
A thousand pounds of marijuana, and he's immune from prosecution.
That's not accurate, not accurate.
There's nothing that I would like better than to put this.
Do you know of any subsequent immune system?
Did you grant immunity to any other action to this drug dealer?
No, that's inaccurate.
All right, so he says that on the tape.
Johnny Sutton, that was a U.S. attorney.
It's a lie.
Well, it's a partial truth.
Here's what actually happened.
And again, thanks to Jerome Corsi.
Jerry Corsi's had these series of articles at World Net Daily on this subject.
The drug smuggler in question, Oswaldo Aldrete Davilo, did come back into the, while he had this grant of immunity and waiting to go and testify on trial against the Border Patrol agents, Ramos and Copillon.
He did have returned, well, yeah, there was about a thousand pounds in the back, but come on, man, I've got this immunity grant, you know.
So they didn't even arrest him.
So there was no immunity because there was never an arrest.
They simply let him go after he was apprehended with 1,000 pounds of drugs so that the U.S. attorney can say, no, I didn't grant immunity on a subsequent drug bust.
They let him go so there wouldn't need to be immunity.
Now, while this U.S. attorney, Johnny Sutton, is putting Border Patrol agents in a federal penitentiary for 11 and 12 years in Los Angeles.
Michael Gilliland, who was a Border Patrol officer, who over the course of a number of years, he worked 16 years in the Otai Mesa crossing here in San Diego, allowed hundreds of illegal immigrants to come across from Mexico.
He was bribed over $120,000.
He admitted sending coded messages to two women who operated independent smuggling rings so they would know which lane he was working during the midnight to 8 a.m. shift.
The women charged more than $1,000 from each immigrant they smuggled across the border, and Gilliland got $1,500.
Hundreds of immigrants let through by this Border Patrol agent in violation of his oath, in violation of his responsibility as an employee of the federal government.
You know what he got?
Now, keep in mind, Ramos and Compeon for trying to apprehend an illegal alien drug smuggler got 11 and 12 years in the federal pen.
The Border Patrol officer who violated his trust and took a bribe to let illegals into the country got five years.
Got five years.
I'm Roger Hedgecock on the Russian Limbaugh Program.
Back with your call after this.
Roger Hedgecock in for Rush.
Rush back tomorrow.
And you know, this Ramos and Compeon case, not the first time.
Another Border Patrol agent, David Seipe, who had to subdue with his flashlight an illegal alien who had been apprehended, was trying to escape, was convicted of excessive force, fired, and recently won a retrial and was acquitted by a jury on the court-ordered retrial.
And the reason there was a retrial is because the federal government stated in writing at his first trial that the aliens testifying against him were going to be allowed to remain and work in the U.S. pending the trial, but specified that, quote, no other promises or advantages, unquote, had been given.
And that turns out to be far from the truth.
Prosecutors for the federal government gave the illegal alien, the star witness against the Border Patrol agent, and two others additional inducements not disclosed at the trial in exchange for their testimony.
They got social security cards, witness fees, permits allowing travel to and from Mexico, living expenses, and free use of government phones.
They would have said anything you wanted them to say for that.
Good grief.
Here's Tim in State College on the Rush Show.
Hi, Tim.
Hey, Roger.
I was just thinking, man, this doesn't make sense to me that we should object too strongly about Bank of America doing this.
I have no love for credit card companies, believe me.
But to me, it sounds like just simple business.
If they can make money doing it, they're doing it.
I don't know that it's for politically correct reasons.
Well, they're certainly going to make money doing it.
I wonder if you'd feel the same way, for instance, if there was 20 million bank robbers and Bank of America had a new credit program for the bank robbers to make bail and their attorneys' fees on credit based on the fact there's so many of them that likely they'll pay.
I can see that there might be a reason for some trepidation in the matter because when somebody can establish identity, things can snowball from there.
That's a good word for it right now up here in Pennsylvania.
To me, yes, there's plenty of reasons to restrict them.
But as far as Bank of America is concerned, I don't know that they're to blame for just simply engaging in the middle of the year.
Tim, do you think that Bank of America should get new business by requiring of you, a legal citizen of this country, all kinds of information that they then will not require of someone illegally in this country?
Do you think that's a good business practice on Bank of America's part?
Well, if I was working for Bank of America doing what they do, I think I would try to get all the information I could about illegal immigrants, too.
I tell my friends there are now more bank cards that know my mother's maiden name than I do.
That's my problem.
I'm the one that told them.
Tim, exactly.
If you were Bank of America, you'd require appropriate identification that actually has, you know, matches the name with the person in front of you.
You would do that.
I'm telling you that Bank of America is not doing that, and that's my problem.
Yeah, but do I have to tell Bank of America everything that I do when they ask?
Will they not give me a credit card?
You are not going to get a credit card at Bank of America without coughing up a social security number, a way in which they can check your credit, a way in which they know you actually live at that address that you say you live at, and that this is actually your name.
You know that's true.
So they do ask these people if they are illegal.
They don't.
I'm saying that that's what they ask of citizens.
All that stuff is what they do not ask of illegals.
How do they know it's an illegal?
Because they don't have a social security number.
Because they don't have a social security number, Tim.
Maybe you're just in the back woods there in Pennsylvania.
Let me just tell you, if you don't have a social security number, it means you're not legally in this country because it's easy enough when you're legally in this country to get one.
Well, I need to get rid of mine then.
That's what I'm saying.
You get rid of it.
You've got all kinds of goodies coming to you.
Just tell people you don't have one.
Tim, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
Just kidding about getting rid of it.
Here's Jeff in Harrisburg, Virginia.
Hey, Jeff, we've got just a second.
Go ahead.
Hey, Roger, I think the GOP is missing the boat on legal immigration.
I think that all the people that I know who are here legally pursuing citizenship and those who've recently gotten it, as typified by some of your callers, are some of the most conservative, hardworking people that we know.
And I think that somehow somebody's got it in his head that demographically, people who are trying to get in the country legally and illegally are somehow un-American, shoot, they know what's right about our country.
That's why they came here.
And I think if we would make a little effort here, we might find that there's an alignment there that's favorable to conservative politics.
I agree, Jeff, and I'll tell you what the alignment is.
I agree with you 100%.
The alignment is this.
Legal immigration of people who want to become Americans, who came here to pursue the American dream and make America better than it's been before.
That is the dream of America.
That's what's built America.
That's where we all came from.
That's not a problem.
The problem is people who think they can break the law to get here.
They can jump the line.
They can break any law they figure on breaking in order to get where they need to get.
And then they can send their money, all their money back to the old country, buy a little ranch and retire and not have to ever be an American or contribute to the country or make it better.
And by the way, they don't buy anything having to do with our culture, customs, language, anything like that.
That's what's wrong.
And if the GOP could make a distinction between those two kinds of immigration, I think they could recover a majority in this country today.
I'm Roger Hedgecock, in for Rush, and back with more after this.
All right, with just a couple of seconds left to go, can I squeeze Bill in Greensboro, North Carolina in here?
Bill, you're on the Rush Show at 30 seconds.
Go ahead.
Hey, Roger.
Yeah.
My thing is, is this Bank of America credit card dealing with Jigger, my wife works in the department that would be collecting from these deadbeat illegal aliens.
And for her, it's great because it's job security for her.
And they would have to hire a whole bunch more people to start collecting from the people that don't pay.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
We're going to get job security for somebody, no matter what law is broken, Bill.
But for the rest of us, let me just say that I think that Bank of America ought to be asking for the same kind of identification from everybody who gets credit and not giving a break to illegals that they're not going to give to ordinary citizens of the United States.
Well, that's it for me.
Rush in tomorrow.
And Rush, thanks so much for the opportunity to fill in for you.
It's been a pleasure and a privilege.
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