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February 19, 2007, Monday, Hour #3

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	And welcome back to the EIB network to the Rush Limbaugh program.
	Russia, 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, the uh this has been uh 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 uh the only place it can expand now in the consumer credit market is into the, well, uh 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 uh illegal alien market.
	So on a pilot program, there was a couple of uh branches in LA, now they expanded it to 51 of their branch uh banks in Los Angeles, uh, that they said, if uh you don't have a Social Security number, now keep in mind uh you've gone in to get a credit card.
	You you know what happens, okay?
	They take the Social Security number, all the information uh 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 gonna know everything about you because they've got to judge whether or not you're gonna 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, uh, and you just give us a name, any name would do, and open uh with any kind of cr uh of uh ID.
	In fact, we'll take the matricular consular, which is the uh Consul General of uh Mexico gives the government of Mexico gives out these uh ID cards, complete with a picture to illegals in this country to help them to uh 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.
	So, and I'm legally in the country, so far as my mother knows.
	So this is uh, you know, and not a very secure ID.
	So Bank of America's been opening up checking accounts with the matricular consular or any other kind of uh whatever uh uh ID.
	And of course the smart illegals already have the fake Social Security number.
	You understand that.
	In fact, last year the uh Social Security Administration reported that there were nine and a half 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, uh 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 uh sober and honest and uh and and responsible, we'll give you a credit card, $500 limit, $99, and we'll extort uh you know 21, 22 percent 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 uh learning our financial system and using it to funnel a lot of money into their terrorist activities.
	So the Patriot Act says, no, no, you've got to have ID.
	So the Bank of America says, yeah, we're asking for ID.
	Yeah, matricular consular and all those great IDs, yeah.
	No.
	No.
	So uh th there was uh uh 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.
	Uh we tried to get him on uh 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 uh we had quite a uh quite a to-do uh about uh the Bank of America around here, and It's probably uh national because they they refuse to say anything.
	It seems to me that uh since the banks, many banks are already given mortgages to illegals.
	Imagine what you have to go through to get a mortgage.
	Did this 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 and your assets and the value of the 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.
	Uh you get into the uh University of California on a residence lower tuition where a citizen from uh to Arizona, say, is uh gonna pay a lot higher.
	Uh your kids uh get medical care, you get uh free lunch and breakfast at the schools, you get the K-12 education, uh, we're gonna find a Section 8 housing for you, we're gonna 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.
	Now let me take it another step further.
	I bet it will be this legislative session in California, 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.
	Uh gee, can uh 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 on uh you know down this road?
	Apparently uh it's gonna keep going.
	Because the Bush administration, and I got into some of this last week with you, uh, has uh gone after the Border Patrol agents, Ignacio Ramos and uh uh Jose Compian, two border patrol agents down near uh El Paso were on the border one day, you know, doing their thing.
	And by the way, their thing is 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 are, you know, maybe have an AK-47 or whatever.
	Uh 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 Compian 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 uh the uh gets shot, maybe by one of the agents.
	We really haven't uh done that.
	Uh 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 Compian, eleven and twelve years respectively into the federal penitentiary, into the very into the 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 uh 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 gonna 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 uh enforcements against 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 as an incredible story developing in Texas on this.
	In the meantime, here's uh Victoria in Colorado Springs on the Rush Program.
	Hi, Victoria.
	How are you doing, Roger?
	Okay.
	Third-time caller, Long, long time listener.
	Thank you.
	And I was calling you were talking about illegal aliens and and stealing identities, and I'm I'm not sure.
	I can't say that it was actually stolen by an i 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, um, 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 a an account with with this cell phone company.
	Millions of Americans have had their identity stolen.
	Uh 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 gotta 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 there's a giant underground economy at uh at uh you know in LA at all the parks in downtown.
	You can go in there and it's about 20 bucks.
	Uh 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.
	We 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 uh uh pluses on her retirement, uh she's used it to get loans, she's used it to get accounts.
	You don't you don't want a new number, you want your m your 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 uh did you get this straightened out, Victoria?
	I'm just the messenger.
	Did you did you get this straightened out?
	No, we didn't.
	She just found out yesterday that the that her social security card has been used.
	So good luck to you.
	No, you want your old number back, Victoria.
	Victoria, j Victoria, just get the old number back.
	That's the only thing you you need to do because that's uh you gotta do that uh 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.
	Uh I'm uh I'm listening to all of these benefits that they're giving to illegal immigrants, and I am trying to to be a lawful immigrant here in the U.S. I'm originally from Sweden, and I've been here uh since 2002, and every time I hear about how they're giving free health care,
	how they're giving uh 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.
	Uh it's um I I I uh I can't even begin to tell you how 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 in in to the government and to lawyers and all that, because if America wants me to do that to prove that I'm worthy of of of living here and becoming a U.S. citizen eventually, then I'll do everything I can to meet th those requirements.
	But uh uh uh please do not give away perks to people who break the law every day, because that's 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, it's I I I'm infuriated by it.
	Um 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.
	Uh 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 uh some progress out of it.
	Uh uh you you know, and I thank you for sticking with it.
	Uh 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.
	And we're back on the Rush Show.
	Roger Hedgecock filling in for Rush.
	He'll be back tomorrow.
	Uh more information at Rush Limbaugh.com, including the half hour news hour uh bit with Rush Limbaugh as president of the United States.
	That's designed to drive the liberals crazy.
	Uh here's uh RJ in Casper, Wyoming.
	RJ, welcome to the Rush Show.
	Thank you very much.
	I'm I'm uh talking to you from a cell phone out here in big wonderful Wyoming.
	We love it.
	Go ahead.
	Well, uh regarding the Bank of America uh credit card.
	Uh recently, of course, uh we got our bill, and after hearing of the fact of uh what they're doing with these credit cards is five hundred dollar uh accounts for uh illegals.
	Uh I decided that rather than fund them, I uh the wife and I just made the check out yesterday to pay the bill off, cut the cards in half, and my wife uh 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.
	So I appreciate I appreciate your call, R. G. Uh I think a lot of people are having that same uh that same impact.
	And by the way, as we're talking about illegals, uh this this issue, and I had the shared with you the Harris poll saying that fifty-five percent, the highest number in the poll, felt that uh in the next five years the most important issue would be the impact of illegal immigration uh on this country.
	Uh Senator John McCain.
	Uh well uh could have recently uh had this to say.
	Buenos días, 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 we vote.
	Yes, but you must also pay two thousand dollars in fines, see, all back taxes, submit to a background check and go to English class.
	Yes.
	Then and only then can you become an American citizen.
	Amnesty!
	Viva McCain!
	McKenna Presidente!
	McCain, el President!
	Uh no, it's uh it's not amnesty, it's uh okay, whatever.
	Uh here's a yard size.
	Uh speaking of yard, so you'll do the whole thing for fifteen bucks, huh?
	See.
	What a deal.
	I can't get any Americans to do two days of work for that.
	So a little John McCain there.
	By the way, the latest out of Washington, Jose Esteban Aleman, one among the thousand undocumented arrested at Swifton 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 Swifton 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've 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 on all banks.
	And the Democrats would go along with it in a heartbeat.
	I wonder about that, Sharon, because the the uh 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 uh uh, you know, uh 1984-ish world in which uh here's the here's the regulate the the Congress saying tighten up, the regulation 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 uh uh checking accounts in the United States, and again opening the door to, you know, 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 Hitchcock in for Rush, Rush Back tomorrow, and a lot of information at Rush Limbaugh.com where you can see, among other things, uh Russia as President of the United States on the new Fox show half hour news hour.
	Uh 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 I heard something on the news the other day that kind of uh disturbed me quite a bit.
	Uh just about this about President Bush wanting to bring uh seven thousand Iraqis over here to the United States, you know, to seek asylum.
	And I think he's at the same time he's I think he said uh something about he doesn't want to keep the war over there, but you know, instead of bringing it over here, no, what's your comments or and opinions on that?
	Absolutely insane to allow uh any Iraqis into this country while we're spending a trillion dollars to make a country for them that uh sane people can live in in the twenty first century.
	Uh they should be told uh that they can either pick up uh a rifle and some ammunition and go back to and uh and serve on the side of the uh government of Iraq, or uh whatever else they would like to do to help build that country, uh, but uh they cannot come to the United States.
	I think it's just dead wrong.
	Now we've had uh within that comment, let me just tell you that across this border with uh where I am in San Diego with uh Tijuana, we have had a number of Christian Iraqis uh 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 uh are trying to kill them.
	Uh and uh they're trying to uh flee for religious reasons, having nothing to do with uh the current uh problem in Iraq, but having to do with the long-standing problem.
	So these uh Christians, by the way, in Iraq uh speak uh Aramaic, which is the language that Jesus himself spoke.
	They are among the earliest Christians ever.
	They were uh they became Christians uh way back at the beginning.
	Uh they have been the some of this uh there have been refugees from uh from Israel from Palestine area for uh many centuries ago, some have been in uh 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 gonna 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 uh is it Tion in my uh in uh Miami?
	Hi there.
	Yes, it is.
	Good to speak to you.
	Thanks for calling.
	We we have to put a stop to this.
	Um I I was telling you, Screener, I too am an immigrant.
	I I'm from Jamaica, and uh it took me roughly from nineteen seventy-five to when we came over here until I graduated from uh technical school.
	It was not until like nineteen ninety-five I finally got my citizenship.
	And you know something, I don't have any regrets.
	Um there are people of my family that uh 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 Tank Crater for what he said.
	You know, if you were to come down here to South Florida, um, you you'd see the differences in how the government runs uh the local government versus governments in in honor uh in other cities.
	There is e f efficient inefficiency down here that it really really falls behind what uh true American city should be like.
	And uh uh people don't like it when I say it, but I I think this guy, Tom Tang Crater, may be onto something.
	I understand he formed uh an exploratory committee.
	I don't know if he's uh very serious about running, but if he is, go Tom Tang Crater, go Tom Tang Crater, go Tom Tang Crater, because we need somebody that's gonna stand up and enforce the laws and 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, T. Welcome to the United States.
	I'm I'm sorry it took so long to become a legal immigrant.
	Uh you sound like a stand-up American to me, and I'm I'm glad you're here.
	Yes, I'm glad to be here.
	All right, Tian, thank you.
	Thanks for calling.
	All right, look, uh 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 uh and I've heard horror story after horror story in our own area, uh seven years, nine years, uh et cetera, hundreds in some cases thousands of dollars for lawyers, et cetera, to try to uh be be 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 uh in this decade alone, some sixty-five thousand, 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 uh Central America, most of them from nations, and there's a huge number uh from nations that uh are uh on our terrorist uh watch list.
	It's just a just an incredible, incredible situation.
	This uh uh and I also wanted to get to this other story about that.
	Um where did I put it?
	And I want to bring you up to Oh, and this was the this was the classic.
	Here it is.
	This was the classic.
	After I told you the story of Ramos and Compeon, 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.
	Uh he's a direct threat to these border patrol agents, doesn't mind shooting them in in the least.
	Uh they shoot at him, he runs across the border.
	They didn't even think they hit him because he ran across the border.
	Uh kept running after the shots were fired.
	They didn't think they hit him.
	In fact, the uh ballistics test on the bullet that was finally recovered from his posterior by a uh Army uh surgeon in El Paso at your expense uh 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, he they they shot an unarmed man in the back.
	Well, according to the entry uh actually of the bullet, if this is when he was shot, his he was turned around, his arm was up, and uh they said the border patrol agents said they saw a shiny thing in his in his hand, and you know, he was many yards away.
	Uh so you know, you were gonna accept the illegal aliens story, contrary to his mother's assertion that no, I didn't have a gun, and we're not gonna accept the word of the two border patrol officers.
	Oh, well, but Roger, they they covered up.
	They they they they they committed a crime and then they 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 uh 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 uh j here's uh uh let's see, this is cut number seven, Johnny Sutton.
	Uh here's here's his story on why he gave immunity, giving Immunity to the drug dealer, so he would come in and uh 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 not accurate.
	A thousand pounds of marijuana, and he's immune from prosecution.
	That's not accurate, not accurate.
	I there's nothing that I would like better than to put this.
	Do you know of any subsequent immun did you get grant immunity to any other action to this to this drug dealer?
	No, that's inaccurate.
	All right, so uh 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, uh thanks to Jerome Corsi, Jerry Corsey's had these uh series of articles at WorldNet Daily on this subject.
	The drug smuggler in question, as Waldo Aldrette Davilo, uh did come back into uh the uh while he had this grant of immunity and waiting to go and testify in trial against the Border Patrol agents, Ramos and Copian, he did have uh returned, well, yeah, 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 a thousand 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 uh federal penitentiary for eleven and twelve years in Los Angeles.
	Michael Gilliland, who was a border patrol officer, who over the course of a number of years, he worked uh sixteen years in the Otay Mesa Crossing here in San Diego, uh allowed hundreds of illegal immigrants to come across from Mexico.
	He was bribed over a hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
	He send uh 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 eight a.m. shift.
	The women charged more than a thousand dollars from each immigrant they smuggled across the border, and uh Gilliland got uh fifteen hundred bucks.
	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 Compion for trying to apprehend an illegal alien drug smuggler got eleven and twelve 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 Rush Limbaugh program, back with your call after this.
	Roger Hitchcock in for Rush, Rush Back tomorrow.
	And uh, you know, this uh Ramos and Compion case, not the first time.
	Another border patrol agent, David Seip, who had to subdue with his um flashlight, uh, an illegal alien who had been apprehended was trying to uh to escape, uh, was convicted of excessive force fired, and uh and recently won a retrial and was acquitted by a jury on uh on the court ordered retrial.
	And the reason they was a retrial is because the federal government stated in writing at his first trial that uh 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 uh for the federal government gave the illegal alien uh 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.
	Uh hey, Roger.
	I was just thinking, man, that this doesn't make sense to me that we should uh object too strongly about Bank of America doing this.
	Uh I have no love for a credit card company, believe me.
	But um 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 uh uh 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 uh make bail and uh and their attorney's fees on on credit uh based on the fact that so many of them that uh the likely they'll they'll pay.
	I can see that there might be uh a reason for some trepidation in the matter because when somebody can establish identity, things can uh can snowball from there.
	That's a good uh word for it right now up here in Pennsylvania.
	Uh to me, uh 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 uh uh to blame for just simply engaging.
	Do you think 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 uh there know now more uh bank cards that know my mother's maiden name than I do.
	That's my Tim, I'm the one that told them.
	Tim, uh 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, uh uh 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.
	Don't you know that's true.
	So they do ask these people if they are illegals.
	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 you don't have a social security.
	Because they don't have a social security number, Tim.
	Maybe you're just in the backwoods 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, uh Jeff, we got just a second.
	Go ahead.
	Hey, Roger, I think the GOP's 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 they 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 uh there's an alignment there that's favorable to conservative politics.
	I agree, Jeff, and I'll tell you, I'll tell you what the I'll tell you what the alignment is.
	I agree with you a hundred percent.
	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, uh their all their money back to the old country, uh, buy a little ranch and retire and 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, uh 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 uh today.
	I'm Roger Hedgecock, in for Russian back with more after this.
	All right, well, just a couple of seconds left to go.
	Can I squeeze uh Bill in Greensboro, uh, North Carolina in here?
	Bill, you're on the rush show with 30 seconds.
	Go ahead.
	Hey, Roger, yeah.
	Uh my thing is is this uh Bank of America credit card uh dealing with Jigger, my wife works in the department that would be collecting from these uh deadbeat uh illegal aliens, and for her it's 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 gonna get job security for somebody, no matter what law is broken, uh, Bill.
	But for the rest of us, let me just say that I think that uh Bank of America ought to be asking for the same kind of identification from everybody who gets credit and not given a break to illegals that they're not gonna give to uh to ordinary citizens of the United States.
	Well, that's it for me.
	Rush in tomorrow and uh Rush, thanks so much for the opportunity to fill in for you.
	It's been a pleasure and a privilege.

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