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May 15, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 15, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Again, our phone number 1 800-282-2882 coming at you from the left coast today and right at the international border that contains not only the most effective fence along our southern border with Mexico, but also the busiest legal border crossing in the world.
So we have uh we have the solution to this immigration thing.
I think we have it.
In fact, we've been so effective here and this sector in terms of deterring the smugglers of whatever, people or drugs or whatever.
We've been so successful that we uh the border patrol has now discovered thirty-one, and who knows how many more there are, tunnels under the fence we have.
That's how much deterrence there actually has been in this that they would have to go to the trouble of building, and some of these are pretty sophisticated mining, you know, shoring up and little railways and concrete floors and all that, to uh to put in uh this kind of uh infrastructure.
Uh we're trying to figure out how to use those tunnels now.
But in any event, that's a local tourism and uh trade matter.
But I I think the fence thing has to go really all the way down the border to make it clear that yes, we're going to have a neighborly relationship with Mexico.
We have to.
Yes, we're going to trade and we're going to uh tourist and we're going to truck and whatever we're going to do between each other, but we're going to do it with mutual respect.
We're going to do it with mutual respect.
Mexicans demand, as they should, that we follow their draconian immigration laws in Mexico.
Uh we should uh demand that uh Mexicans and all others for that matter, who are here uh in the United States expecting to uh break into our country and then demanding all sorts of civil rights and jobs and subsidies, that it just isn't going to happen that way.
And by the way, it's gone way beyond that.
I'm sure you know this, but let me just repeat, I d I didn't till I got over the weekend I was in uh Las Vegas over in Vegas.
And uh not only did I go through through a car wash in which uh American teenagers were working, huh?
You know, where's the Ecuadorian guy that I'm used to down in my place in San Diego?
I mean, you know, the you know, in San Diego we c we kind of got used to the fact that most of Latin America is here.
Uh over in Vegas, apparently, uh, you know, they still have American teenagers employed.
Anyway, we found out that the I don't know whether you saw the news article on this that um someone was blown up in the Luxor casino resort uh parking lot.
Well, it turns out that the person blown up was illegally in the United States, had been hitting on the girlfriend of another person who was illegally in the United States, and that person and their and his friend, illegally in the United States had planted the bomb uh in front of the girlfriend to let her and the guy who was blown up and killed know uh that uh they were not to be messed with.
Hello, what are you all doing in the United States in the first place?
So tonight there's going to be a um a debate among the Republican uh candidates, and I'd like to uh, in light of their past uh you talk about the inconsistencies on the abortion issue, let's talk about the inconsistencies on the uh on the immigration issue,
because before Fort Dix, before the three of the six uh Fort Dicks six who wanted to uh AK-47 and frag our um our officers there at Fort uh and and men at Fort Dix, uh before we uh we had uncovered that,
there was the Lackawanna, there was uh all these other people who had overstayed their visas, who'd crawled across the border, whoever they were, three of the six in the Fort Dix matter, uh smuggled apparently as kids across the uh Mexican border, hundreds of thousands of what the border patrol calls OTMs or other than Mexicans apprehended across the border,
prayer rugs and karans and shawls and stuff found amin amidst the debris of people streaming across our border and destroying the border environment, by the way, uh to narry a peep from the environmentalist lobby.
So uh how serious is this immigration issue?
I think it's about as serious as it gets in terms of national security.
Forget about, you know, the other stuff.
Even the economics and the jobs and all that.
How about national security?
So, for example, I mean, the Rush did a little parody because you all you can do is make fun of uh John McCain as he tries to link up with Ted Kennedy to come up with so-called immigration reform.
Here's a little bit of that parody from a while back on the Rush Show.
So there you have it.
So what will he say tonight?
Because apparently he and Brown back and others out there in Iowa and other places uh campaigning have come to the frustration the Senator Brownback uh uh voiced a couple of weeks ago uh at a uh at a meeting in Iowa of uh, you know, average folks saying, uh, do you have any other concerns other than the border?
In any event, uh the midnight oil was burning at the Senate office buildings last night, as Senator Martinez, Senator Kyle from Arizona, a number of people from the Bush administration and those from uh uh the Democrat majority have been looking at what they can do to come back because uh Harry Reid has said Harry Reed,
who last week has has said uh has had something to say about every issue on the table, except and I don't mean to interrupt myself, but d I found this kind of curious.
Uh Harry Reid has had something to say about everything on the table as a leader of the Senate majority, except the Reverend Al Sharpton's comments to Mitt Romney about uh uh concerning Mitt Romney about Mormonism and believers, if you remember this Al Sharpton comment, we don't need to go back to that.
But uh Mr. Reed, one would expect would have a comment about Mr. Sharpton, since Mr. Reed as well is a Mormon.
So in it it seems to me that uh his comments uh on everything else are kind of interesting, but what about that?
So back to immigration.
Reed has said, look, we've got to do something this week.
Either we're gonna bring back the the McCain Kennedy Amnesty Bill, or you're gonna come up with something that uh we can all sign on on because uh we're not gonna uh give uh uh a victory to this president on anything.
Uh if it's uh if it's done and we get all the um illegal signed up as Democrat voters.
Oops, I mean uh if we get everybody uh or a citizenship, path to citizenship, that's it.
Path to citizenship, then we we'll uh we want to go forward.
We want to go forward with that.
And here was um George Bush talking about how this is going to be the final uh achievement he wants to uh make in his in his presidency was uh immigration reform.
Well, the idea of reform, the word reform is code for amnesty.
Because I want to hear about immigration security.
I want to hear about securing the border.
I want to hear about a president who says, I want to know who's coming across the border, identify them.
If they're legally here, if they've come here to work and they're legally here, God bless them.
Welcome to America.
That's how we all got here, what our ancestors did.
I'm not anti-immigration, shouldn't be, because it's a reality of of life that America is built on uh on uh immigrants in the past.
And certainly now we've got quite a load of them, but the point being that most of them are going to contribute over time to a better America.
Some of them simply represent uh gangland Latin America, the MS 13 and others taking over.
Some of them represent uh the worst of mankind.
We've got to know who's coming across, whether they're terrorists or strawberry pickers.
I mean, we've got to be able to say there's a difference.
We know.
And we've got to be able to match our needs in this economy to what we want from immigration, because Americans took those jobs in New Bedford at the backpack making plant.
And uh Americans took the jobs at the Swift and Company that had been hired hiring largely illegals and who claimed they couldn't get Americans to do the work.
That was nonsense.
That was a lie.
Uh these folks aren't just coming here to do work that Americans won't do.
They're doing they're coming here apparently to plant bombs Americans won't plant, to shoot soldiers Americans don't want shot, to uh molest kids that uh would otherwise not be molested.
Uh I mean look at the local crime roster in your community.
So, yes, it's a national security issue that I'd like to see some answers.
What do you want to hear from the Republicans on this issue?
Let's go to Susan in Baltimore, Maryland.
Susan, welcome to the Rush Show.
Hi, Roger.
Hi.
I love so much when you're on.
I just I'm so happy when I hear you're going to be on.
Thank you.
Um I wish you were on our station regularly.
But anyway, um I would like to hear about deportation of the so-called twelve million that are here.
I really um think that we need to deport so many of them.
It was on CDS one night, the billions are costing us any uh for their health care and for their children that they have they're born here, their anchor baby and the uh incarceration and the eighty-two percent of drugs that come from Mexico.
And just think if we could shut down that, the uh drugs, we have so many murders in Maryland and everywhere because of the drugs that um I just would love to hear the word deportation.
Uh John McDonald's.
Well, let me let me c let me come back uh to that, Susan.
I'm gonna take my break but come back.
And and you've you've raised the issue, and I want to come back and tell you why it isn't even necessary if we do this right.
I'm Roger Hedgecock, In for Rush.
Let's take a short break, come back with your call after this.
Roger Hatchcock In for Rush Limbaugh and the uh Border Patrol has sponsoring a NASCAR.
That's right, a race car in the NASCAR it's a uh uh NASCAR Bush series car.
It has to do with uh hiring and recruiting.
They're under they're into hiring and recruiting, uh, but they haven't yet told the new recruits how they're going to keep them out of jail for violating the civil rights of people illegally coming into our country.
Uh this uh has happened along our border, and the morale of our border patrol is at rock bottom.
You must know that George Bush's U.S. attorney, here's one who should have been fired, down in El Paso, Johnny Sutton, prosecuted uh Nacho Ramos and uh Jose Compian, two border patrol officers, put them in jail for eleven and twelve years respectively in the federal penitentiary for shooting in the butt a uh many time of illegal alien drug smuggler who on that day had seven hundred plus pounds of marijuana in the in the uh vehicle he was
driving.
He attempted to abandon it and run back across the border, uh flash some kind of uh something at the officers, struggled with them.
They uh urged him to stop, he wouldn't, they fired.
Uh he kept running.
They didn't even know they hit him.
They're in jail now for doing their job.
It's a catastrophe and a disgrace.
So you can have a NASCAR, you can have uh a Hooters, you can have whatever you want to have in terms of recruiting uh people into the border patrol, but until you explain whether or not the Border Patrol agents, new or old, are going to be allowed to do their job, or they're going to be jailed for doing their job, which seems to be the trend in the border patrol, uh, Mr. Aguilar, the chief uh border patrol agent.
Uh then uh, you know, until you do that, I don't know how you're gonna recruit people.
Who would want the job?
When they're going to go to jail and the b uh uh the the good guys are going to jail and the bad guys are gonna be running drugs across the border uh with impunity.
And immunity.
Yikes.
All right, now back to uh Susan's point.
What about rounding them up and deporting them?
I don't want you to fall into the uh left here.
Do not fall into the trap of the left.
Everyone who wants an open border begins every discussion with me on the border by saying, Well, what are you gonna do?
Round everybody up?
No.
Not gonna round anybody up.
Why do people come here illegally to the United States?
Everyone on all sides of this issue will tell you the answer to that question is because of the jobs, the economic opportunity.
Well, wouldn't you, Roger?
You would if you were a peasant in Oaxaca, wouldn't you come?
Of course.
Okay.
So everyone agrees it's the job magnet that's drawing the illegals to this country.
We also know where they're working.
We know exactly where they're working.
I will tell you the Bush administration won't, that they have nine and a half million, last year nine and a half million social security numbers reported on the 1040 that were inconsistent with the name.
So they know, at least as to those, they're probably illegal.
Ninety-nine percent of those aren't clerical errors, folks.
So uh the if you go to those employers and you notify them, you know, you're gonna have to clarify this situation.
You're gonna have to verify that the do documents you're getting are really as to that person.
We're gonna have to verify they're in our computer.
Not all the problem gets put away, but a whole lot of it does.
I would guess three quarters to eighty percent of it goes away.
And if it goes away and there's no job, where does that person go?
Now they work illegally under the table, I mean, heck, that's going on everywhere.
Uh maybe.
But not really for a long time.
Not in construction, not in the uh in the defense contractors, not in the in the higher end jobs that illegals are doing now.
Because if you really have employer verification, and we can do that now with Social Security numbers.
We don't need any tattoos, we don't need any implants, we don't need any, you know, we don't need any of that stuff.
That again is a trap of the left.
What do you want to do, Roger?
Tattoo everybody?
No.
But what is that card?
You've got the Social Security number.
It's yours, right?
Yeah.
Well, it's also used by sixteen guys working in the uh in the uh meat rendering plant in uh South Carolina.
Well, what are you gonna and I'm just using that as a hypothetical?
What are you what are you gonna do?
Well, the meat rendering plant to the meat uh processing plant has better be verifying their employ uh employees with Social Security Administration.
And if they get back a letter saying no, those names don't match with those uh numbers, they've got to have the right as employers to fire those people because right now their fear is as employers, if they fire those people because their Social Security number doesn't match the name, they get a civil rights lawsuit.
They get an unfair termination, an unlawful termination lawsuit.
That's what they're facing as employers.
We've got to straighten that out.
And then the problem goes away.
Because people will go home.
It's happened before.
Every downturn in this country in the economy we've experienced here in Southern California.
People are here illegally and the jobs go away, they simply go back to their home country.
Will everybody do it?
I I doubt it.
But will most of them do it?
Yeah.
It's happened before.
I'm not speaking hypothetically about this.
This is the history of illegal aliens in this uh in this state.
So, ladies and gentlemen, when I was watching, and maybe you were watching in LA, the uh police now, of course, are deemed guilty.
They are proven guilty uh before they're proven guilty.
They are assumed to be guilty before there's a trial or an investigation or any uh findings whatsoever, because uh some people uh got uh got hit with rubber bullets and hit with some batons because they wouldn't move in in a place where they shouldn't be in MacArthur Park.
What you need to know about MacArthur Park in LA is that it is owned by the M uh MS-13 gang and related gangs.
It is such a Central American area of LA that there's actually been a petition from the surrounding neighborhood to the City Council of LA to designate it as a Central American city.
The police do not even go there unless they're kind of driving through rather hurriedly.
You can go to MacArthur Park and buy any identification you want.
Any passport to any country, any any identification you need here, driver's license, whatever you need, whatever amount of money, you don't have to go to Tijuana anymore.
Go to MacArthur Park.
This is the w this is why the open border activists, uh La Raza and Maldiv and uh La Vaz de Oslan, those folks, the radical left open border people, who really are anti-American, who really are using this issue to tear down America, they wanted a rally there, but they didn't want that peaceful rally because only one-tenth of the people showed up this year that they did last year.
So they wanted it on May Day, they wanted the typical anarchist communist confrontation with the police, and then wanted to make the police the issue, and not the fact that nobody turned out for their stupid demonstration.
So they made the police the issue.
And Villa Ragosa, the uh mayor of uh of uh LA that we love to call Villa uh Via Reconquista, this guy, Via La Raza, uh blames the police immediately.
He wasn't even in the country, and he blamed the police.
He didn't even see on my website I've got video taken by people who were in the illegal alien camp.
They they want an open border.
They were taking video, and you can see the anarchists and communists.
Roger Hedgecock.com.
Just check the video yourself that you're not seeing in the mainstream press.
Back after this.
Yeah, a little Latin music to get us into the mood here and and I'll tell you the people I've met out here and elsewhere throughout the country that are the most outraged by the idea of uh amnesty for people who've broken into the country, are people who have legally immigrated to the country, who have gone through the hoops, who have played by the rules, and suddenly some guy can jump the line?
I mean, you know how you'd feel.
You wait a long time to get into something in some kind of queue, and it's very uh maddening.
You get to the front, you finally achieve and just as you get there, some guy cuts in front of you.
How would you feel?
What is it about the memory of your legal immigrant forebears that you want to violate by advocating the idea that all these people who jumped the line, 12 million, 20 million, what's the number?
Who knows?
Nobody does, apparently.
Uh they ought to all jump the line ahead of the people who've been waiting patiently to be legal immigrants to this country, who want to be Americans, who want to come here to be Americans.
I mean, it's crazy.
This whole uh uh uh Albanian connection.
I'm sure many of those Albanians that Bill Clinton led in refugee after the Kosovo incident in the 19 late 1990s that came into this country, I'm sure they're patriotic Americans.
I'm sure many of them have gone on to s start businesses and families and they're proud of their achievements here in this country.
But you know, it only took a couple of them to remind us that they're still subject to the teachings of the mosque of the of the Wahhabist uh extremists who get a hold of these young guys and turn them into people who want to go up the Pocono's and shoot their AK-47s and and uh invade void dix.
Including three guys that were smuggled apparently across the southern border.
It's a little crazy.
Let me get let me see what you think about this.
Doug in Santa Monica, California, you're on.
Hi, Doug.
Roger, uh, thanks for the brilliant job you're doing uh on uh immigration.
Uh your points are just wonderful.
They're clear and they're rational.
But it all comes under a larger concept, and I don't heard the term used very much, and that's called attrition.
If we uh secure the border, number one, and do uh things such as set up an infrastructure where any illegal alien has contact with law enforcement, he's out of here.
And they say, well, it's a federal job and so forth and so on, but so is bank robbery, and uh police are certainly able to uh capture bank robbers, even though it's a felony offense.
And uh also Yeah, but bank robbers don't bank robbers don't have demonstrations and they don't have consul generals in this uh in this country uh advocating for them, and they don't have lawyers and they don't have leftist pressure groups and they don't have La Vaz de Oslan and all this stuff.
You know, the infrastructure that is supporting these illegals in this country is enormous.
It is indeed.
But the concept of attrition is important.
We spend two point three billion dollars on flowers.
Uh what do you mean by attrition?
Uh over ten or twenty years, if the border is secured, jobs are not available, uh it becomes illegal to send money.
Well, that's what I was just saying.
In other words, you've got to have two things that are immediately done.
You gotta know who's coming across the border.
That means securing the border, and that means using a fence, as we've done at San Diego successfully.
Number two, you've got to know who's in the workplace.
You've got to know that they're legally there.
The employers have a responsibility, the government has a responsibility to work with them, verify the numbers, verify these people, and uh jobs should go to Americans and people legally in this country.
Period.
I mean, end of discussion.
Once you do those two things, then obviously the magnet gets turned off in terms of illegals coming here figuring they just work wherever and people who have whatever fake document they need, and the employer just kind of lets it slide and and uh exploits them.
I was in a debate.
This was on Fox uh with uh some guy from Air America, uh and uh and he's saying, well, Roger, what do you want to do?
Have a ten dollar apple?
I mean, uh, you know, seniors won't be able to get their apples for under ten dollars if we don't have these illegal.
So what is the left really saying here?
Are they really saying that the exploitation of a whole underclass of brown-skinned people is necessary for me to have a cheap apple?
In other words, where is the logic from the left on this or the war or anything else?
Let's take them to their logical conclusion.
If they're really for open borders and the continued exploitation of people, then let's get that out in the open.
You open border people, you la Vazda Aslan, you l La Raza people, you know, i if if you're really saying that we ought to open our border to everyone who wants to come here and get a job, understanding the people who do come here and get a job and who work under the table and who work for cash and get exploited and sometimes not paid and live in canyons and camp over here and do this and that, uh to to get those jobs.
If you really think we ought to have an underclass of that kind of person, making homelessness uh look like uh a luxury deal, Because that's where it's at for too many of these homeless uh too many of these illegals in our community.
Then, you know, let's get that out in the open, because I do not advocate that.
That's not the America I want to see.
I want to hear these Republican candidates respond to that this evening, too.
Here's Mark on a cell in North Carolina.
Go ahead, Mark.
Well, thank you, uh, Mr. Hedgecock for taking my call.
You're indeed a gift and uh national treasurer.
I'd like to say that, please.
Uh I I just heard uh Senator Barack Obama yesterday speaking about the uh four young men uh on the corner with no jobs and no hope in this community and of of our America.
And I'm wondering, well, who's taking their jobs?
You know, I started bussing tables and washing dishes, and uh it's made me a better person, and I think contributed to my personal success uh in life and and my growth in life.
Uh however, I do see the issue on the border as uh and I agree wholeheartedly uh with your fundamental requirements, your first two solutions there.
I think a third one might be that we might want to consider is to go down into that country because it is a corrupt country, and and unfortunately those people the power uh is is held and and the wealth is held uh in the hands of few, and there is very little hope um with that.
Yeah, but how do you change that?
I'm not uh you know, after after Iraq, I'm I'm a little bit more hesitant than I even used to be about this idea of transforming other countries.
How how do you think we could actually transform since it's on a basically whole different c culture?
They have the Napol Napoleonic Code, they have the old feudal system from Spain, they have the old Aztec feudal system.
These are not people who are into the heritage of the Magna Carta and and individual freedoms and all that stuff and and and innocent till proven guilty, all that stuff that we assume as Americans, they have a far different orientation.
I I agree, and and uh the job magnet, I'm I'm gonna uh refer to the job magnets that you said here.
We can create job magnets, I think in their underfair.
It's been proven that you can uh actually uh change the economy or the the agriculture in arid environments.
If we go down there and we help them uh you know create their own farms, we need to show them how to irrigate water, help them do it economically, I guess hands I guess there have been programs similar to this in the past, like hands across the border or whatever, but we need to get a magnet to keep them down there.
Uh in and if we can help them produce, you know, the labor intensive stuff, because we don't need that up here anyway.
We've got farm machinery.
Well, Tom, I'll tell you what.
I'll tell you what.
You're absolutely right.
It's our fondest hope, it's our dream.
We've been trying to do this for years.
There is uh at this present moment little hope that this can be accomplished.
As you point out, Mexico is governed by uh the famous hundred families.
It's the richest, the richest, the rich a guy richer than Warren Buffett lives in Mexico City because he controls a whole lot of their economy.
It is run as a feudal system with 98% serfs and you know one percent middle class and one-tenth of one percent owning just about everything, and that's the way they've run it for thousands of years.
I'd love to see them turn into a free market capitalist uh uh Singapore or what have you, but it it it is it isn't likely to happen.
What needs to happen is the Mexicans themselves need to transform their country.
Instead of coming here and finding opportunity here, they're gonna have to find an opportunity one way or another in their own country.
It is really their problem.
Now, again, many of them are gonna migrate here legally.
I I'm not trying to say exclude people because that would be another leftist trap.
Legal immigration makes sense for America when done right, always has.
Uh illegal immigration is undermining our country, filling our jails, undermining the rule of law, making our uh I don't know about your K-12 system in your community, but it's in a death spiral in my community.
So that's where we're at.
And and uh we're getting breaking news.
Tom, thanks for the call.
We're getting breaking news in here that the uh Reverend Jerry Falwell, who's actually a real Reverend, as opposed to some other reverends we talk about on the program, has uh died, apparently, was hospitalized in gravely serious condition, is now confirmed by uh Liberty University executives that uh Jerry Falwell has died in Lynchburg, Pennsylvania in Lynchburg, Virginia, sorry.
Uh Ron Godwin being quoted here that Falwell, age 73, found unresponsive around 1045 a.m. that time, taken to Lynchburg General Hospital.
Has a history of heart uh problems.
Uh Falwell, of course, the television evangelist who founded the moral majority became the face of the religious right in the 1980s, helped the election of Ronald Reagan, and um uh has been uh long active in connecting evangelical Christians to the political process.
Uh Reverend Falwell dead uh today in the United States, kind of a passing of an error.
We'll get to your comments and questions when we come back.
I'm Rush, uh I'm uh Roger Hedgecock in for Rush Limbaugh.
We'll be back tomorrow.
And let's take your calls in 1800, 282-2882 after this.
Welcome back to the uh Rush Show.
Roger Hitchcock filling in for Russia Today, Russia, of course, back tomorrow.
All that other information that you need every day is still there at Rush Limbaugh.com.
And uh we're taking your calls at 1800-282-2882, uh, talking about uh immigration here.
After the top of the hour, I want to get back to another topic that uh needs more exploration, uh needs more understanding, and that's uh the Chinese plot to kill your pet.
Uh you'll find out that that's I'm not exaggerating on this, so we'll get to that.
Uh and then the uh the continuing evidence that uh Democrats are above the law.
We'll talk a little bit about that.
And Iran wants to send uh set up an Iranian U.S. friendship committee, and we'll have some suggestions and nominations uh for that.
In the meantime, I believe the uh we have uh the Bush's uh singing uh parody with regard to our concerns about illegal immigration.
Here it is.
Woo.
I don't know if this is a good idea, son.
Using fun.
But Dad, we gotta reach out to our base somehow.
Besides, I love James Brown.
What will your mother think?
The border goes from coast to coast.
Easy to get into here.
We got intercontinental overload.
Just slip under the fence.
It don't make any sense when there's no documentation.
That's too far.
And somehow or some way we're gonna find out who you are.
Sneaking in America.
Try to hide from immigration, sneaking in America.
Across the land, across the nation, sneaking in America.
Got to have some legislation.
Admit it now, say I speak in America.
Y'all do better than that.
How about all 12 million of you join me?
I think in America.
Wait a minute.
You may not be looking for illegals, but you will find them anyway.
Uh honor one of those.
Oh familiar name.
Like New Orleans, New Orleans Detroit City, Detroit City, Dallas, Dallas, Pittsburgh PASBA, New York City, New York City, Kansas City, Kansas City, Atlanta, Atlanta, Maria and Jose, sneaking in America.
Try to hide from immigration.
Sneaking in America.
Across the land across the nation.
Sneaking in America.
You die.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
All right.
Back to Tom in South Bend, Indiana, next on the Rush Show.
Hi, Tom.
Roger, it's uh pleasure and an honor to speak with you.
Thanks.
Hey, I just I wanted to bring the point across that uh I think a lot of the jobs that the illegals are doing are not jobs that Americans won't do.
It's they're taking, at least in our area, they're taking them away from the teenagers.
Um like the one caller said, uh, busting tables, washing dishes, working in fast food restaurants.
That's what I did when I was in high school, but you don't see that when you go into these places nowadays.
That's exactly right.
Where are you?
In Indiana, you don't see that?
Um, actually in Indiana, we see the uh the Latinos um taking those jobs.
Um not so much the the framing, you know, the construction jobs and things like that.
It's the service industry that they're taking the jobs from here that the teenagers, you know, high school kids uh did uh prior to that.
Prior to the influx that we've seen over the last five years here.
Tom, thanks for the call.
Yeah, as I say, in this uh Vegas trip uh last uh weekend was over there the uh I I went through a car wash and uh the interesting name, Terribles is the name of this car wash thing, and uh again, uh American teenagers.
You know, of all colors, including Hispanics, but they were clearly American teenagers.
Uh I got to tell you when you go through the car wash in San Diego, uh it's a different story.
Here's Tom in Columbus, Ohio.
Tom, welcome.
Roger, how are you doing today?
Good, Tom, go ahead.
Great.
Hey, you know, I'm a little frustrated by all we hear about our uh immigrants.
You would think that the only immigrants we have in this country are Hispanic.
And I mean, I'm a second generation German American, and my grandparents uh emigrated here, became citizens, and did it the right way.
And uh, you know, frankly, I find it offensive that you know all these people emigrate here illegally and then all of a sudden feel like, well, because it'll be an easier way to get to get through this.
Let's just, you know, bypass all the rules and say, okay, they can uh they can come in and uh and do that.
I I'm you know, I'm just curious how other, you know, uh uh people that have that have come to this country uh how they feel about it, not just Hispanics.
No, no, no, I I agree with you.
In fact, we have le legal immigrants of whatever uh origin are uh as upset as you are, second, third generation.
Um but i illegals are now coming from everywhere.
Uh witness that backpack thing in New Bedford where they raided that factory that was doing backpacks for the military, the leather factory, and some 300 plus out of 600 employees uh were uh were illegally in the country.
Do you know the number one nation that those illegals came from was Portugal?
Number two was Brazil.
Number three was someplace called Cape Verde, I had to look up.
I mean, what it's now of course it's not just Hispanics.
Uh this thing has now become a worldwide magnet.
The th the entire rest of the world is going, you mean I can sneak into America and be an American?
Wow, my hell, as they used to say down on the farm.
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Back with more after this.
Coming over the next hour, I want to reconfirm what I was uh saying at the top of the uh show about the uh Iraq war Feingold uh resolution to cut off the funding this week.
Obama and uh Hilton and uh and uh Hilton, it's in California orientation, uh Clinton, will be uh, you know, senators voting on this.
And if they're gonna be honest about it, are they gonna just vote to stop the war or aren't they?
So we'll talk about that.
China and this pet food thing will not go away.
Uh now it's into the whole food chain.
What is?
Well, we'll talk about it and why and how it got into this country.
Speaking of illegal aliens, what about stuff that's poisoning our pets, and it's coming from China?
Uh are the Democrats uh above the law?
I want to bring up again an issue that I have not seen.
It has been suppressed in this country as effectively as anything I've ever seen, and that's the outrageous scandal involving Senator Diane Feinstein of California.
We'll get back to that.
And the Iran U.S. Friendship Committee has been proposed now by Iran as they race to become a nuclear power and take the next war to, well, the next level.
I'm Roger Hitchcock, In for Rush Limbod.
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