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June 8, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 8, 2007, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
Look, the judge just sent a car out to pick her up.
It better be at least a town car, if not a stretch.
Paris Hilton all over the news.
I know somebody named Jefferson got indicted, uh, somebody named Cheney went to the hospital for cardiac stuff.
Putin, some Putin, what's that?
Talking about uh, you know, missile defense uh locations, uh big victory on the immigr b immigration bill.
None of that is news.
Out here in California, of course, the news is Paris Hilton.
And I'll tell you what's interesting about the rest of the country that just doesn't get this story.
Uh as soon as it got to some kind of critical mass, and this is kind of a weather vein.
You can always tell when a story emerges to the critical mass when Al Sharpton starts commenting about it.
So this one got to critical mass yesterday when it was learned that Paris Hilton, after uh being sprung from jail, what, forty 45 days, gonna serve 23 uh special location, 12 by eight cell, in by herself, uh meals in her room, uh her Vietnamese nail person was able to come in, I guess three times a day.
Anyway, all of that, uh a beautifully incarcerated as she was, she was sprung for undetermined, at least undisclosed, uh physical and perhaps psychological problems.
Um I must say if I was put in jail, I'd have psychological problems too.
But anyway, now the judge is all upset.
And he wants her to uh appear in court.
At first it was going to be by a phone appearance, now the judge has sent out a car to pick her up in the Hollywood Hills at her place of incarceration, a 2700-foot quarter acre mansion.
By the way, just so you know that I have insider information, in the living room of this mansion is a stripper pole.
Just just so you know what I know.
Now, this is um this is uh and and now New York is asking me how I know that.
You gotta be out here, you gotta have your sources, you gotta be in the know on the top story of the day.
Now I know the rest of the country is just up in arms about the special treatment being given to Paris Hilton.
Anyone else would have served the term.
I mean, if you had been uh uh uh arrested on a DUI and reckless driving, sentenced to 38 months, 36 months probation, alcohol education, a $1,500 fine, and had two more driving arrests after that and violated all the probation terms and got sentenced to jail, you'd probably be serving the time, but you don't get it.
You you just don't get it.
LA exists because of celebrity.
LA invented celebrity, used to be called movie stars, now they've kind of broadened the category.
LA is invested in the concept of American celebrity.
LA's economy is based on the concept of American celebrity and oh yeah, seven million people illegally in the country.
This is this is the LA economy.
This is what I mean, the idea that Sheriff Baca led her out, of course he did.
His job is to protect celebrities.
His job is to showcase celebrities.
His job is to turn whatever trouble they get into into a photo op.
His job is to enhance Do you know how much more she's worth in commercials right now because of all this?
You guys don't get this.
This is what we create here in California.
We create celebrities, even if it's, you know, the negative.
All publicity is good publicity.
It doesn't matter.
All of this doesn't matter.
It all has to do with how big an icon can Paris Hilton become to sell products to the world uh on behalf of America.
She's a patriot.
Paris Hilton is a patriot.
And I don't think the rest of the country gets how serious this is, that all of this play out in a way that gets her name and her picture to dominate every screen of every network uh in the world.
Of course, that's exactly what's happening.
I was um I was just stunned by some of the stuff.
They've even got out in front of the store, uh the uh the house in Hollywood Hills, uh which you now know more about the Hollywood Hills than you've ever known by watching any screen uh whatsoever, you now have a situation where this media circus has resulted in uh uh media from all over the world.
They've uh quote in the LA Times this morning, Sue Wan, a freelance writer reporting for the New York Daily News, uh, and he was uh celebrating, or he or she was celebrating that since Hilton was out of jail, quote, now she can go back to concentrating on how to make the world a better place, unquote.
See, that that is the essence of her value to the world, her value to America.
We uh I just, I mean, I'm I'm a I'm amazed by this whole thing.
Uh but what you gotta get rid of is any notion that she's being treated differently.
Uh the another thing that you don't all realize, maybe in the rest of the country is we don't take the criminal justice system too seriously out here.
Um it's kind of something we have to do, you know, to keep up appearances, but uh people who are sentenced to 9,000 years generally serve about an afternoon.
Uh if you if you murder thirteen people rather than twelve, uh, you're gonna do a year.
Uh there are six hundred people on death row, it it's kind of a country club.
No one ever gets executed.
It isn't that th you know, this is not quite a law and order kind of place.
We're not sure if our pyo down in Tucson, who actually came out this morning and said, if she was serving in my jail, she'd do the 45 j days.
Well, of course.
And you'd give her pink underwear, she's got thousands of those, and you'd put her on baloney sandwiches, and believe me, that wouldn't do.
By the way, you know what happened.
When she got back to the house in the middle of the night, released by Lee Baca, the sheriff there in uh LA, she had a special her special her special bakery, she called up, and they delivered out her cupcakes, you know, her custom cupcakes, which she had to have that.
By the way, there's a banner going around, there's a uh a little plane pulling a banner around her house.
We love Paris.
Uh look, look, um, you gotta understand the criminal justice system lets people out.
It's overcrowding, mind you, in the LA County jail.
People who are serving six months a year, and they can serve up to a year in the county jail, they generally are out in four or five days.
They they do not, they do not incarcerate people in LA.
It just isn't done.
Much less for celebrities.
They don't want celebrities in there.
Celebrities are supposed to be out for the photo op.
So going in is a photo op.
That's that's important.
Coming out is a photo photo op.
That's important.
Now the time spent in is wasted time.
They could be over there photo photo ops.
They could be taking her to the house, putting on the Cartier designed uh ankle bracelet, uh, then getting called by the judge.
Oh, the judge is gonna send a car to pick her up.
There's sixty-five cameras outside her house now.
Bringing her uh to court.
The G eight meeting, forget about it.
Uh China trying to uh poison the entire Western world, forget about that.
Uh immigration bill goes down in flames for all the right reasons, forget about all that.
Because today we have America on display.
The real America, the celebrity America on display, ladies and gentlemen, as it should be.
I had enough yet.
I had enough last night.
I was so disgusted by this whole thing I couldn't believe it.
Thank God for for humor.
Uh at least on Letterman and Leno, who used to joke about people who were going to be president of the United States.
It used to be when you s when you were joked about on uh uh the the late night talk shows, you were automatically a credible candidate for president.
That was one level of degeneration.
Well, we're way below that now.
Here's uh Letterman.
But it's not a free ride from here on out.
She's now under house arrest, and the by God that'll teach her.
Her world has now been reduced to a four-acre estate in Bel Air.
Take that.
And then there was do we have another Letterman one, or we do we have Leno.
Oh, oh yeah, Leno got into it.
Here's Leno.
She suffers from a rare disorder, only trust fund babies get.
I believe it's called rich bitch itis.
Now, see, a little envy crept in there, I could tell.
A little envy crept in, a guy with three hangers full of collector cars just couldn't handle it because Paris was getting all see, we know Leno too out here.
Anyhow, uh ladies and gentlemen, I j you know, America on parade.
This I want you to get your arms around this now, is the real America.
How Paris is being treated and how this issue has dominated the news and will dominate.
I predict you will dominate the news as long as there's back and forth with Paris.
Uh this is unfortunately, don't get me wrong here, I'm not I'm not saying this is a good thing.
But this is America and its media.
Now you're gonna rebel, you're gonna scream at me, you're gonna send hate email, you're gonna say, uh, Roger, that's not the real America, that's not me.
But to the projected wor out there in the world, this is America, because this is what they see.
This is what they, outside of America, everyone else, hears.
So, ladies and gentlemen, just so I set the stage for you, uh, to the rest of the world, everything else we talk about today, and I got a lot of interesting and important issues to get into with you.
Uh this is what's dominating the news about America.
Uh learn.
Watch.
Do something about it.
And when I say do something about it, here's what I mean.
You didn't think you could do it, and the mainstream media was telling you it was never going to happen.
The mainstream media told you the phone calls were tailing off, the emails were tailing off, the uh the impact of the wacko uh right, uh George Bush had slapped him down uh in that speech uh down south.
Uh this is uh the you know, the people uh the nativists and the racists and the uh no nothings.
We're not going to shape American policy on immigration.
That was not going to happen.
What was going to happen was that the real people, uh like Ted Kennedy and John McCain were going to get together with George Bush and do what's right for the broken immigration program.
The program was broken because no president wanted to enforce the law.
The program was broken because Congress and the president over the last twenty years, since the 1986 legislation have been lying to the American public.
There never was enforcement at the workplace.
There never was a border enforcement program with a million people coming in a year or more.
There never was any effective border control.
There was an amnesty after 86, and they wanted to pull off the same stunt this time.
They lost.
You won.
And how it happened when we come back.
I'm Roger Hedgecock, in for Rush Limbaugh, all the information at Rush Limbaugh.com.
Your calls at 1 800 2822 8882.
Back after this.
Roger Hedgecock in for Rush Limbaugh.
Now to the real news, and that is the defeat by you of Senate Bill 1348, the Ted Kennedy, John McCain Immigration Amnesty Bill.
I want to get into some details about this because we have been following this carefully.
I was with 37 other talk show hosts and our listeners in Washington, D.C. month and a half ago talking about this bill, rallying the country to this.
Everyone uh on the on the talk show circuit has, I don't know, 1,500 talk show hosts or something like that around the country, talking about this issue in a way that has educated a larger percentage of Americans to what's really at stake than the Senate is used to.
The Senate is used to doing this thing in a little, you know, private secret way.
With the key lobbyists in tow.
There's a great picture this morning uh somewhere of Ted Kennedy with the chief lobbyist, for example, from La Raza.
La Raza, in case you don't know, meaning the race and Espanol.
La Raza is a racist group of uh nationalists who are trying to promote the idea of the reconquest, the reconquista of the Southwestern states taken from Mexico in 1848 in a war.
Still fighting that one.
You guys in the South think you're still fighting that war between the states.
These guys still fight in 1848.
So this is um this is a great day because those lobbyists, those insiders, this insidious tearing down of the rule of law, the borders, the sovereignty of our nation, uh, the uh uh tidal waves of illegals with all that comes with that.
Uh and not to say that legal immigration isn't what this country is built on.
Of course it is.
We all came that way, uh, one way or the other.
Uh this is uh illegal immigrants.
I'll tell you what, legal immigrants, let me put it simply.
God bless you, welcome.
Illegal immigrants, get the hell out.
This is a country based on the rule of law.
We have a legal way to immigrate.
You go through the hoops, you come in legally, uh uh welcome.
God bless you.
But don't jump that fence and think that you're entitled to uh freebies and health care and and and more civil rights than I do, and your kid goes to uh uh University of California at less of a uh tuition than some kid from Arizona.
That this just isn't gonna happen.
And the American people have have just arisen.
This isn't a remarkable thing to watch.
A thing that most political science experts, most pundits, most of the drive-by media just said would never happen, couldn't happen.
Americans are so fixated on Paris and all the rest of the divert diverting items of popular press.
They'll never focus on this.
It's too arcane, it's too weird, it's too complicated, it's 300 pages, it's bigger than the New Testament.
No one's ever going to read it, blah, blah, blah, blah.
You read enough of it to know what it was going to do to this country, and you did the right thing.
In California, the offices, the local offices, and there are many, this is a state of 37 million people.
Uh we have two United States Senators, thank you, Rhode Island.
Uh we have uh, you know, two senators like everybody else.
They have 37 million constituents, they have uh district offices all over the place in California.
Not one of them was able to do any business for the last two weeks, except take calls about this that were 100 to 1, 200 to 1, 500 to 1, whatever it was, I think they were unanimously against.
And it wasn't just Republicans, it wasn't nativists and no nothings and racists and what have you.
It was everybody.
It was independents, it was Democrats, it was Republicans.
It was an enormous grassroots reaction.
When it became obvious that what this bill was really going to do on the day it was signed, was qualified what is the number, 12 million, 20 million, whatever the number is of people to come in and get a what was called in the bill a probationary Z visa.
The government was given twenty-four hours.
What's the time check for buying a gun?
Like as long as it takes?
24 hours to decide whether or not this was a terrorist.
Was it Adnan Khrushmambi or whatever his name is?
Uh, the nuclear expert from Al Qaeda, or was it just uh some guy wanting to pick strawberries?
In 24 hours, I'm telling you right now, this government was not going to be able to tell you that on 12 million, 15, 20 million people, and it was clear these probationary Z visas were going to be given out as an instant legalization, an instant legalization, an immunization from any kind of further prosecution,
even for people, and this is the Senate actually voted on this amendment, even for people who had been previously deported because they were felons in this country, you could not deport them now under a deport order because they were eligible for that probationary Z visa, bingo, amnesty done.
All of this stuff from the uh pro-amnesty side that it wasn't amnesty was like saying, you know, the sun didn't come up this morning.
I'm sorry, it did.
And this bill was an amnesty bill, and it's dead.
Uh and Jeff Sessions, Senator Sessions put it this way.
On this bill, the American people kept up with it.
On this bill, the American people were expecting this Congress to pass legislation that would significantly and dramatically improve the colossally broken system that we have.
So we have a broken system.
It's broken because of non-enforcement of the last law.
And I think Duncan Hunter, our Congressman from San Diego and a presidential candidate, had a better view of what it means that this amnesty bill could not get closure, could not get anywhere near a cutting off debate and allowing a floor vote to go forward.
That juggernaut, which had been predicted what, 48 hours ago, this was a juggernaut.
Train left the station.
This is a this is a uh this is done a done deal.
Done deal.
Let's start working on the House.
Uh here's Duncan Hunter.
The better idea right now is to execute the law that the Senate did pass, 80 to 19, and that the House passed overwhelmingly, and that the President signed on October 26th, and that is the bill to build the double fence, 854 miles.
There it is.
There it is, ladies and gentlemen.
Last year we had an immigration bill.
Passed the Senate, 80 to 19, passed the House overwhelmingly, signed by the President on October 26th.
Build the fence and secure the border first.
Then you've got a lot more credibility on dealing with, you know, who's ever here now?
What do we do about this?
We need to do something, that's pretty clear.
But the first thing we need to do is secure the border so whatever we do with the people here doesn't just invite another 12 million, 20 million, 50 million to come.
So ladies and gentlemen, Duncan Hunter has it right.
Secure the border first.
Show that you really know that the priority of the American people is our security, and then we can deal with amnesty issues.
By the way, Bush is in New Haven, Sanctuary City New Haven, raids yesterday.
It could be that the president is getting the message on this.
It could be that we're really not non-patriotic racist know nothing.
After all, maybe we're just American people with a real concern.
Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Roger Hedgecock here at KOGO Radio in San Diego filling in for uh Russia today.
And I got an email uh from the Rush folks, uh says uh Rush Limbaugh will be appearing this Sunday night, 10 P.M. Eastern time on the Fox uh show half hour news hour.
Now, unlike the last time when Rush was there uh as president of the United States.
Now I thought that was one of the most brilliant moves because if you wanted to just drive liberal left America crazy, you would portray on the television Rush Limbaugh's president of the United States.
Anyway, he's now going to appear as himself this Sunday night, 10 o'clock Eastern on Fox's uh half hour news hour.
All right, uh I uh this is so fascinating, ladies and gentlemen.
Let me go back to this.
The dominance of this whole Paris Hilton appearing in court thing, it's all over every screen in America.
Now, while they were doing all that, um, with no real news, there's no news.
The court has sent out a car to pick her up.
There'll be a hearing uh noon Western time.
Uh that's it.
They're still focused on her house.
Um while that happened, the Secretary of Defense, Mr. Gates, replaced Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
A huge move in the military.
This is the number one military guy in the country.
Fox has yet to run the story.
Headline news, uh CNN headline news has yet to run the story.
MSNBC broke in for 33 seconds with a picture of Pace and the story, and then popped right back to a picture of the street in front of Paris Hilton's house.
This is a sick world, at least here.
All right, uh 1-800-282-2882.
Now, um, let's talk about the fallout of the grassroots campaign to defeat the uh amnesty, immigration amnesty bill, the Kennedy McCain bill, because the fallout today is huge and enormously important in the actual real world.
Um the first thing that's going to uh this is not this is this is a prediction that would be so easy to make, anyone could make it.
John McCain will not be president of the United States.
This is the final nail in that coffin.
Uh Lindsey Graham, who expected no opposition in his upcoming race in 2008, I believe he's up in 08, correct me if I'm wrong out there in uh in South Carolina, tell me if I'm wrong.
But um, I believe that he's up uh next year and faced really no opposition until all of this came down.
Until, now get this, this is this is actually what happened when they were they were doing all that um uh amendment stuff, uh the um amendment came up about um uh South Carolina, the other South Carolina uh Senator Jim DeMint had an amendment to require illegal aliens to pay for health insurance coverage in order to qualify for residency.
Uh this uh this uh probationary Z visa, that's Z for Zoro, uh the Z visa, uh, and you'd get the probationary Z visa just by applying.
And Demon said, well, wait a minute, you know, if they apply and they're legally in the country, then all of a sudden this cascade of social services comes down, which we all then have to pay for.
Heritage Heritage Foundation, by the way, go to their website, uh two and a half trillion dollars or something over course of time would be the cost of all that, um, that you would pay.
So how to vote on Senator Jim DeMint's amendment?
Well, it turns out that in a conference Wednesday, Mr. Graham, Lindsey Graham, the other South Carolina Senator, Mr. McCain from Arizona, met with Mr. Ted Kennedy to get his guidance on how to vote on that amendment.
John McCain and Lindsey Graham went to Ted Kennedy to find out how to vote, says the Washington Times this morning.
That should be enough for you down South Carolina, I think, to uh come up with somebody better?
I would think so.
Um anyway, and and so here is um here is a little uh John McCain who who, as Mr. Tancredo said yesterday, always has prided himself as a man who marches to the beat of a different drummer.
How depressing to learn that the drummer is Ted Kennedy, come on, John.
John Lake.
Every time.
You're done.
Stick a fork in it.
On South Carolina, some of those county chairmen are bailing on John McCain.
This should be the final blow to his uh hopes to be the uh oldest uh possible president uh that you could have.
And it's just not going to happen.
And uh John McCain is done.
Now, is Lindsey Graham done?
I don't know, but uh would love to hear from you down in South Carolina.
By the way, Ted Kennedy, I wish I had audio this.
It was in the uh New York Times, which of course billed this as a defeat for Bush.
And in terms of the president advocating this, it certainly is.
But the bill was written.
Let it let there be no doubt about this.
The bill was written by Ted Kennedy, his staff who are in absolute constant contact and are joined at the hip with the most radical open border groups in this country, with uh MECA, with La Raza, with uh Lulak, and all the rest of those groups uh that uh by the way, get uh Ford Foundation uh uh funds.
And if it's up to uh Mr. Renzi down in Arizona, who has co-sponsored a bill in the House that would give 10 million dollars of your money out of your paycheck to La Raza.
So ingrained is La Raza, which again means in an Espanol, the race.
And by the way, uh an incredibly anti-Semitic group.
Everything I've gotten from them, and you can go to La Vaz de Oslan and some of the other outlets for this uh way of thinking, incredibly anti-Semitic, pro-Hugo Chavez, pro-Reconquista, the most radical anti-American groups in the uh Hispanic community, and and believe me, I believe uh very much a minority in the uh Hispanic community.
But La Raza, by the way, a former La Raza executive director, national executive director, is the Hispanic advisor on the Hillary Clinton campaign.
I think we had that last time I was on here.
Anyway, so today in the uh New York Times, and I wish I had to tell, but I don't, so I'll just read it to you.
Um, they uh uh tried to a Cornen, uh the uh Republican from Texas, Senator John Corning, put on an amendment that was approved, 57 to 39, to give law enforcement and intelligence agencies in the United States access to the applications that would come in under the Z visa,
the probationary and the extended Z visa, because the applications would be checked by law enforcement under this bill, albeit for only 24 hours.
Um, Abdul so-and-so.
You know what I'm saying?
Do I need to get into detail?
So here is uh we we can profile here on this program And just move on so that we kind of shorten this up.
Here's Kennedy's uh opposition to allowing law enforcement access to the information disclosed by illegals on the application for a Z visa.
He said, quote, he said, well, this is a paraphrase.
He said immigrants would be extremely reluctant to apply for legal status if the data from their applications could be shared with law enforcement agencies.
And then here's the quote from Ted Kennedy quote.
There are no individuals who are going to register for any of these programs.
None, because all their information will be available, unquote.
Now, if you never had another quote from Ted Kennedy to tell you that his basic core belief, and he and he does have one, is simply to strike back against America.
To strike at everything there is about America.
That's what he's been doing since 1965 when he changed the whole bunch of immigration, the whole thrust of immigration law in this uh in this country.
The idea that Ted Kennedy, who is apparently the guide for John McCain and Lindsey Graham on voting on this bill, would believe that uh it would be wrong to share information disclosed by illegals on applications for legal residency with law enforcement.
Gosh, we might catch somebody.
We might catch some MS-13 uh killer.
We might catch uh some uh, you know, uh Al Qaeda terrorist.
We might catch three of the do I have to remind you, three of the six arrested in the Fort Dix conspiracy to kill soldiers on our Army base at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
Three of them had been smuggled across the border from Mexico.
So, ladies and gentlemen, it is uh in the real news, some very important news.
First of all, that you're powerful, that you stopped this bill, that it was a bad bill, that it is a threat to our security, that it is a creation of Ted Kennedy's, that it must be stopped.
And the laws that were passed by Congress last year need to be enforced, build the border fence, uh raid and put in jail employers who believe they can get a little cheaper deal by hiring an illegal instead of you.
Let's get serious about this issue in the United States.
We'll take your calls after I come back.
Roger Hitchcock, in for rush.
Back after this.
You know, you gotta love it.
Uh the um stem cell research enhancement act.
Um, the the the Senate is still trying to force the destruction of embryos in the name of science when science has moved beyond that, according to the New York Times, in a surprising advance that could sidestep the ethical debates surrounding stem cell biology.
Researchers are uh getting close to the major goal of regenerative medicine, the conversion of a patient's cells into specialized tissues.
In other words, any cell in the body could become a stem cell able to reproduce other damaged cells without having to go to uh destroying an embryo.
No advance in medicine.
I'll put this right out there.
I'm not a medical person, so if I'm wrong, please call.
No advance in medicine yet has resulted from stem cell research from embryos.
Stem cells from other parts of the body are currently doing a whole host of good things in medicine.
All kinds of advances.
But the focus on embryonic stem cells is purely a product of the abortion lobby.
They want to make it legal in as many ways as possible to destroy human embryos in order to protect the abortion industry.
President has promised a veto if that stupid bill does pass, and he should uh be congratulated for it.
Let's take a call.
Here's Jim in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Hi, Jim.
Hey, Roger, how are you?
Good.
Thanks for calling.
Great job, as always.
Um, was that stem cell research enhancement?
So is that similar to male enhancement?
I I didn't want to get close to that, although this is from California, this broadcast uh didn't jump right into the obvious uh Jim.
Hey, uh I had a comment about Ted Kennedy.
Uh my folks, uh my my parents immigrated here in 1951 from the Netherlands.
They came on the New Amsterdam boat and uh, you know, basically kissed the ground when they arrived here.
But there was a lot of rules that they had to accomplish when they came here.
And one was, of course, get a job and and be productive.
And uh, you know, now we see just the total destruction of the basic fundamentals of coming here under the rule of law.
And as far as I'm concerned, since you mentioned earlier Ted Kennedy getting involved in 1965, he has completely destroyed the immigration policy of this country.
He is to blame for the mess that it is in today.
And I also fault obviously the president now for not taking a strong stance on it, but this has been going on for the last what, you know, uh 45 years back in it started in the 60s, then we had a big mess in the eighties.
Uh, and once again, we have a huge mess.
But Ted Kennedy should be wearing a banner around himself.
On the front, it should say, shame on me, and on the back, it should say, I'm a total failure.
And he should wear that in the Senate every single day.
All right, Jim, thanks for the call.
Here's uh here's here's the deal, though.
He has succeeded at what he set out to do, because you were right the first time.
He set out to destroy this country with an immigration policy that turns away people who are qualified to come here and be productive citizens, that welcomes people with the uh with the least amount of education, the least amount of incentive to become Americans, the least amount of what we used to think of as the strengths.
I mean, one of my grand uh mothers came through Ellis Island, uh, was de loused and all of that humiliating stuff, but she had to prove she was healthy, that she had a sponsor, that she was not going to be a public charge, as they put it then.
Uh these things we have forgotten we've lost, and to our detriment.
By the way, just for the record, this isn't just a bash Ted Kennedy uh session here.
Let's go to Ted Kennedy's words in 1965.
He was the floor manager of the 1965 immigration act, which turned this whole immigration thing upside down.
1965.
Here's what he said.
And I wish I had this on tape too, and we don't.
So I will just No, I won't.
I won't do an imitation.
Here is what he said.
Quote.
What the bill will not do.
First, our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually.
Under this proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains substantially the same.
Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset.
Contrary to the charges in some quarters, this bill will not inundate America with immigrants from any one country or area, or the most populated deprived nations of Africa and Asia.
In the final analysis, the ethnic pattern of immigration under the proposed measure is not expected to change as sharply as the critics seem to think.
Unquote.
Senator Kennedy knows perfectly well that the exact opposite has happened.
Legal immigration.
Legal immigration has increased from 255,000 in 1965 to about one million today.
Five countries, Mexico, India, China, Philippines, and Vietnam, contribute forty percent of the legal immigrants.
Legal immigrants.
Here's the quote uh in other words, uh here's the quote from Senator Kennedy in 1986 when the amnesty bill was proposed in 1986.
It actually had three parts.
Two parts were ignored.
One part was uh done thoroughly.
One part was Amnesty.
The other part was border enforcement.
The third part was employer sanctions.
You hire an illegal, you go to jail.
No employer has ever been jailed.
The border is not secure, as we know, to our tragic uh result.
So in 1986, here's what Senator Kennedy said about that bill.
Quote, this amnesty will give citizenship to only 1.1 to 1.3 million illegal aliens.
We will secure the borders henceforth.
We will never again bring forward another amnesty bill like this, unquote.
But he did, and he's hoping we forgot his words from then.
I'm Roger Hitchcock in for Rush Back after this.
Coming up in the next hour here on the Rush Limbaugh program, Roger Hitchcock filling in for rush today, Spanish nuns on beer, China trying to poison you and your pet, the latest on global warming.
And I had a cigar with Arnold uh a couple of days ago, and I'll tell you the story.
Also about the war on Walmart.
It comes to San Diego and maybe to your town too.
I'm Roger Hitchcock, Infor Rush, taking your calls at 1-800-282-2882.
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