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July 8, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 8, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Okay, the law that the White House has cited, and I erroneously cited it because I can't remember where I first saw this, but it was a credible place.
The law that allows the unaccompanied children to stay originally was said to be a 2002 immigration law signed into law by Bush, which stipulates that children from nations not contiguous with the U.S. could not be sent back to where they came from.
Now, I don't know the history of that.
I don't know the origins.
I don't know why it was put in.
I don't know how we prove.
I mean, these kids show up.
How do we know that they're from where they say they're from?
Yeah, I mean, the original purpose was designed to prevent drug cartels from exploiting them by preventing them from being used to go back and forth to bring drugs in and so forth.
That was the original purpose.
It had nothing to do with amnesty.
It had nothing to do with immigration, actually.
The Bush law was an effort to tamp down drug cartels' usage of these kids.
Now they're showing up.
Now they're flying in.
They arrived in San Diego on a jet and they're being bussed back up to Murieta, California.
They're really, you know, the regime is really in their face in Murietta, California.
It's a real standoff.
It's a replay of the federal government suing the state of Arizona in its own way.
But I have come to learn that what is actually being used to allow these unaccompanied children to stay once they arrive is a Bill Clinton law that's titled the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000.
And it was intended to offer protection to illegal aliens in the U.S. who've been the victims of human trafficking.
The bill has been renewed four times since 2000.
And that is the legislation actually being used, actually being cited as the authority for allowing these unaccompanied children to stay.
In 2008, Joe Biden sponsored a renewal that was rammed through Congress during December.
It was actually Christmas of 2008.
Only two Republican senators voted against it.
Bush signed it on December 28th of 2008.
Now, the bill in 2008 contained the language that requires alien minors from non-contiguous countries hearings and appeals if they claim to be the victims of human sex trafficking.
And you can bet, folks, that nobody except the pro-amnesty authors of the bill knew what the consequences of that would be.
Now, the 2013 renewal, which was also championed by Biden, put in similar language to also require that women who claim to be victims of domestic violence also get hearings and appeals, which means they won't be deported.
So it is not the Bush law from 2002 that is being used here.
It is a Clinton law from 2000, which has been renewed four times since 2000.
It's called the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000.
That's actually what is being cited officially.
In the media, they're still saying it's the Bush 2002 law, but it isn't.
Now, Costco, Costco has responded, at least initially, to all of the disgust they are hearing from people having pulled Dinesh D'Souza's book, America.
And they're saying at Costco that there's nothing political about this.
We pulled it because it's not selling.
And we only sell bestsellers here.
We only put books that are on the New York Times.
We don't sell a bunch of garbage here that doesn't sell.
Those are my words that I'm putting in their mouths, but that's basically their excuse that the book isn't selling.
Now, the book is going to open on the July 13th New York Times list.
It's going to be on the list.
It would satisfy the Costco requirement, as stated by one of their executives today.
They also, it seems, they didn't know at the time they agreed to stock the book that there was a movie that supports and is in conjunction with the book.
And apparently, it's the fact that there's a movie attached to this that really set them off at Costco.
Now, if they were just interested in selling product, they would say, wow, a movie to support the book?
Wow, this thing could be a big seller.
But it is political.
And for crying out loud, this guy, Senegal, who's one of the co-founders of Costco, again, a multi-hundred thousand dollar donor to the Democrats.
He's an Obama sycophant.
He has spoken at the Democrat National Convention.
Does anybody remember?
This guy's name is Jim Senegal.
He issued an earlier and bigger dividend for Costco, December 2012, to beat the new Obama taxes.
You think anybody will bring that up?
In my show prep and research, when I found out this had happened, I'm going to find out who this guy is.
And much like any other hypocritical liberal, when it comes time to support a tax increase on everybody, they're right in there doing it, but they take advantage of every opportunity they can to escape it.
And that's what this guy, Senegal, did.
He issued a bigger and earlier than usual dividend for Costco stockholders December 2012 to beat new Obama taxes.
And I'll bet you this guy was out giving speeches or at least appearing at fundraisers supporting Obama's tax increases.
But when it came to his own company, he uses a gimmick to avoid paying the very same tax increases that he's out there publicly supporting.
So that's the latest.
But look, my guess is, remember, I know these people.
My guess is that you're going to have a number of different reactions inside the Costco executive suite.
They are probably, remember where they are?
They're in Seattle.
They are in a protected liberal enclave.
They are shut off from the majority of the rest of the world.
Snurdley used to live there.
He can tell you about it.
The Hutch often described it for me.
I guarantee you that some of them are literally shocked at the number of complaints they're getting.
I guarantee you they did this expecting that they were going to get unanimous nationwide support and applause.
They thought they'd get accolades from everywhere, and they probably are getting some.
But they are receiving complaints the likes of which Costco has never seen before.
Guaranteed.
Because there are far many more of you than there are people who are going to shout accolades at them.
The people that would give them accolades are the kind of people that have to go on Twitter and Facebook and use all kinds of tricks to make themselves look like hundreds of thousands of people when it's really only five or ten.
And I guarantee you that happens.
So they're sitting there at Costco and they're getting all these complaints and some of them inside the executive suite are going to be laughing and happy about it, that you're so upset.
And they're going to be slapping each other on the back and they're going to be applauding each other.
They're going to love the fact that you don't like it.
And then some of them are going to say, wait a minute, these are our customers.
We ought not be so happy that we're ticking off our customers.
And so that would lead to the statement, wait a minute, this isn't political.
Don't say that.
No, no, no.
We just pulled the book because it's a loser sales-wise.
Then there are going to be some inside there in the executive suite who are going to say, you know, we've got a problem here.
We have never, ever in our corporate history angered so many customers like this before.
We've never done this.
And they're going to be worried about what it means.
And the battle inside the executive suite is going to be between the leftists who delight in people like you and me being ticked off and angry and so forth.
And they do.
They get a big charge.
That's one of the primary motivations they have for being who they are and doing what they do.
Then there's going to be another group of leftists who are going to be very concerned about what it means economically for the company.
They're not going to be as many as the former.
I don't care if it's a public company or not.
This guy, this co-founder, Costco, he's every bit as identified with this as the family and the people that own Hobby Lobby.
Costco's a corporation, right?
But yet this guy probably is credited as being a person and he cares.
Remember Costco?
You remember my example a couple weeks ago?
Costco supporting a government-sponsored raise in the minimum wage?
Remember that example I gave you about crony capitalism and how corporations today sidle up to government to wipe out competitors rather than actually beat them in the marketplace?
Cited Walmart as agreeing with Obamacare despite increasing costs because they can afford it.
Their competitors can't.
So Walmart might not be all that upset if Obamacare puts some competitors out of business.
Same token, Costco.
Costco comes along and openly supports a massive increase in the minimum wage.
They can afford it.
They are tight with Obama.
They want Obama to succeed.
They share Obama's worldview.
Don't ask me to explain how a capitalist-oriented company that's interested in selling stuff and is very profit-oriented, how in the world they can sidle up and be a close friend of a guy like I don't pretend to understand it intellectually.
It's an emotional relationship.
It's a religious relationship.
Liberalism is a religion, and it's but at the same time, the Costco people openly support a massive increase in the minimum wage because they know their competitors can't afford it.
So, rather than compete in the marketplace and offer better prices, better products, services, what have you, you just sign on with government and let the government put your competitors out of business or let the government end up harming.
You end up supporting policies that harm your competitors.
It's all in the nature of competition, but it is not free market competition.
It's crony socialism, crony capitalism.
So, I don't know how it's going to end up.
I don't know how they can reverse themselves on this.
Stranger things have happened.
But in the process, what they've done is succeeded in calling much more attention to D'Souza's book, and they're probably going to generate a lot more sales for D'Souza's book, and they're probably going to generate a lot more moviegoers.
Whenever you ban something like this, a lot of low-information people say, well, what's so bad about this?
They get curious.
They want to go find out, why can't this be sold?
What's so bad?
And they go see it.
They'd be scratching their heads, not able to figure it out because there's nothing prurient about this.
So, all in all, it could end up being a net positive for the book.
Finally, Obama.
Obama's attending a fundraiser in Texas.
He's attending a fundraiser in Texas at the home of a movie producer, man by the name of, I think, Robert Rodriguez.
Robert Rodriguez's movies are the machete franchise movies.
Are you familiar with those?
They are bloody, gory, brutal, violent.
I mean, they are some of the bloodiest movies you have ever seen.
They star Danny Trejo, and this guy, this director of these movies, is totally pro-illegal immigration.
And that theme runs through his movies.
There are three of these machete movies.
Two of them have been made.
The third one's in production or will soon be.
Second one came out in the past year.
And decapitations, I mean, I don't know how much fake blood they go through in these movies, but it could support Hollywood for a year.
It would make some of these other R and X rated horror flicks look nothing.
But this guy is hosting Obama $3,200 a head, $32,000.
I'm sorry, $32,000 head fundraiser, pro-illegal immigration movie director.
That's where Obama is going in Texas.
Pro-illegal immigration.
And that theme is in his machete movies, Including Don Johnson starred in the first movie as a vigilante-type former Texas Ranger guy who loves shooting pregnant illegal immigrant women, for example.
And of course, he's a dastardly, horrible, bad guy.
Jessica Alba stars as the heroine pro-illegal immigration Hispanic who is the nicest and the sweetest and just so devoted to the cause.
But these are totally pro-violence movies, pro-illegal immigration.
And Obama is showing up at the home of the director of this series of movies for a massive fundraiser in the midst of this onslaught of illegal immigrants.
We'll be right back.
Quickly, back to the phones.
This is Ann and Ed in Southern California.
Welcome.
It's great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hello.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Just fine.
Thank you very much.
Great.
Well, we had some interesting news.
My husband, Eddie, is on the phone with us.
We live in Southern California, and we're Catholic, active Catholics in our community.
And there was a town hall meeting last evening, emergency meeting called by our local parish priest, ordered by our bishop in the United Empire, the Archdiocese of San Bernardino.
And they have made a decision that they're going to absorb the immigrants that are coming through because the federal government called bishop's office on Monday, and they're going to be busing these immigrants to our communities.
And they're asking us to open our homes and to house them for up to a month, and that the church will reimburse us for any out-of-pocket expenses.
And we were told not to talk to anybody about it, especially the media.
I'm not especially happy about it.
My husband is a retired doctor, and he will share his concerns with you regarding this matter.
Eddie, you want to go ahead and talk about your thoughts?
Long time listener, Rush.
Thanks.
Thank you, Eddie.
I'm very concerned about the health care crisis that we're facing and these illegal aliens that are coming into the United States.
And doctors are being asked not to talk to the media.
They're on gag orders, both doctors and nurses.
And we've got a big problem because there are a lot of diseases that can come through this border bringing all kinds of stuff in Koreans.
Eddie, I just read that in some cases, the lice are so bad, you can see them crawling down the faces of some of the kids.
Yeah, the lice won't kill you, but Ebola will, and so will gonorrhea and their syphilis and AIDS and hepatitis and diphtheria and poliomeningitis and this new coronavirus coming in from the Middle East.
Hang on.
I got to take a break.
Hold your thought, and we'll continue after the break.
We have Ann and Eddie on the phone together.
Southern California.
Okay, we're back, and we rejoin Ann and her retired doctor-husband, Eddie, on the phone jointly together with us from Southern California.
Eddie, could you put Ann back on the phone or is she on with you?
I want to.
Yeah, hi.
I'm here with you.
Okay, Eddie, I'll come back to you in just a second.
But Ann, I want to clarify.
Did you say that it is the Catholic Church that the government called and asked for assistance?
Yes.
Okay.
And then the Catholic Church accepted and said, okay, we will.
At least the Catholic Church in your town.
You haven't identified where you're from.
And then the bishop has asked you and the other parishioners to help pay for this, but you are not supposed to tell anybody this, which you've just done.
Yes, that's what they asked us not to get the media involved.
The diocese will reimburse us for any out-of-pocket expense.
Now, wait, because you're going to be asked to house some of them yourself?
Yes.
Are you going to?
No.
That's why I'm calling.
I'm letting people know this is not the best interest.
We have a FEMA at Norton Air Force Base is a designated FEMA camp.
This is an emergency.
They need to go there.
You know, that just frost this whole thing.
Air Force bases, military bases are being turned into daycare centers here.
But that's another point.
I don't mean to distract you.
So you, why did they tell you not to tell the media about this?
Well, they don't want a lot of people there at the churches when they bring buffload these mothers and children.
Aha.
Why do you think the Catholic Church accepted this?
And we want to help, but this is not always the best way to help.
And the government created the problem.
They should fix the problem.
Exactly.
But let me, why do you think that your local Catholic Church is helping Obama and the government do this?
I mean, this administration has targeted the Catholic Church.
I don't know.
I called the diocese in my community and made a request.
And so they, at a town hall meeting, emergency meeting last evening with 100 people in attendance, I would say 70% of people were on board.
I'm on board in theory, and my husband Eddie can share his thoughts about the reaction far more articulate than I can.
So I'll let you express to Rush your thoughts.
Well, I just brought up the diseases that are coming through and the lack of screening that's going on, Rush.
I mean, we've got FEMA facilities that can provide medical care and housing, nutrition, clothing, safety and transportation, and stabilize the situation so that these people can be reintegrated or be dealt with.
But to put us and subject us to health care problems, risk, whatever you want to call it, seems to be an incompetence on behalf of the government when they themselves, these different agencies, are not talking to each other.
FEMA's not talking to Homeland Security, and Homeland Security isn't talking to the other agencies.
To me, there's just a lack of coordination that's going on between these bureaucratic, enormously bureaucratic institutions.
Eddie, look, you have to forgive me here.
I think I'm on a different wavelength.
And I don't mean this question to be rude, but would this all be okay with you if there were more coordination?
No, but they're coming in, and we have to deal with this.
We can't, I mean, as consumers, we can't stop it.
Well, see, that's the nub of it.
So they've got you.
They're coming in.
We've got to deal with it.
Okay, so they've won.
It doesn't matter what's happened after they get in.
Once they have coerced everybody into thinking that what they have to do is make it okay after they get here, there's never going to be an end to it.
That's the big concern.
They told us that this is going to last for 30 days, but many of us are scratching our head going, 30 days?
I just can't believe that's going to be cast in concrete.
We know that this is going to go beyond 30 days, and it's going to go on and grow and grow and grow unless this stops.
Well, it isn't going to stop because the government doesn't want it to stop.
Exactly.
There's no effort to make it stop.
There's a lot of lip service in that direction.
Okay, so it's understandable that when churches are called upon to be charitable, that they would do it.
That's actually a smart move on the part of the regime.
You're not going to have too many churches say no to a request for charity.
But then they are turning around and asking parishioners to temporarily house some of these people.
And you pay for it on the promise that you'll be reimbursed.
Especially when there's a FEMA facility literally 10 miles away.
And it really bothers me when doctors and nurses are on gag orders not to talk about the health care risk of these immigrants coming through the border.
We have to do this right.
We need to protect the American citizens.
And it's the duty of the governments to do that.
And they're not doing it.
Well, no.
Ed, let me remind you of something.
The left in this country, and I don't mean to politicize this, but they do.
So let me respond in this way.
The left in this country blames the original white European discoverers of this country with bringing in syphilis, racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia, environmental destruction.
I mean, this is in the public school curriculum today.
Young people are taught that this is what Christopher Columbus and the Pilgrims and all of the white Europeans who settled in this country and eventually founded it, they brought all this stuff in.
So who are you, doctor, to complain about a little disease coming in because this is not the first time it's happened?
That's what they would say to you.
If you called a liberal talk show, if you could find one, that's what the host would say to you.
Yes, and unfortunately, we have a healthcare system that's bankrupt, that is being destroyed by Mr. Obama, and it can't take on this burden.
Well, it is.
It is.
It is taking on this burden.
It is taking on this burden.
And Dinesh D'Souza did such a great job in his movie.
We saw it this last weekend talking about how diseases had moved in Europe and within the Indy, even the Indians, that they died mainly because of viruses and diseases coming in as it got repopulated.
It wasn't because there were soldiers killing Indians.
It was literally because they were dying of disease.
And we've got Ebola Rush that has moved from Africa to New Guinea and maybe in Europe.
What the heck are we going to do if we get an Ebola outbreak in the United States?
We're not prepared for this, and it's a 90% mortality rate without this virus.
Ed, do you really think that's possible?
Because of this?
Do you think an Ebola outbreak is possible because of this?
Or is there just, are you being maybe a little exaggerated in your caution here?
Well, I'm concerned.
And I feel like the Paul Revere just waving the flag, wanting to get us to take a look at this.
And there's a way to solve this with existing facilities that are already in place that have medical clinics that have the ability to bring nurses and doctors in, just screen.
And create jobs for Americans.
Yeah, hearing that.
What's that?
This is a job creation opportunity.
Well, I'm just saying if they open up these FEMA camps to house these illegal immigrants, it would create jobs in the community where we live.
I don't know.
Man, it's complicated.
It is truly complicated.
The last thing I ever considered any of this to be was a job creation opportunity.
But I thank you for presenting that perspective.
In the meantime, you seem resigned to the fact that this has no end and that you have to come up with a way of making this as acceptable or manageable as possible.
And it sounds like your primary concern here is that the people attempting to organize this repatriation or patriation of the refugees is not being done right.
Yes, that is the correct assessment.
And it was just Monday he got the call from the government.
Tuesday we're meeting.
Tuesday night, everyone is saying yes.
And there hasn't been much time to really think strategically and carefully about the ramifications of saying yes.
Well, you know, speaking of that, I mean, something I meant to ask your husband, Ed.
Ed, you still on the phone?
I assume you are.
I am.
How can these people, the arrives, be screened for illnesses and disease in the short time they're in these processing centers?
You know, we were told that they went through two brief screenings.
I don't know what that entails, but you've got a great point.
I mean, you can't really do a thorough job in a McDonald's type of fashion where you're just running people through.
You've got to spend the time doing proper testing to make sure that certain diseases are not coming through the border.
Right.
But they are.
They are coming through the border.
That's what you're just saying.
What is back to you, Ann?
What is I've never heard this term?
What is a FEMA camp?
Go ahead, Craig.
It's a federal emergency.
What's the EMP?
I mean, Rush knows what a FEMA is.
Well, I know what FEMA is, but what is a FEMA camp?
Well, it's a FEMA facility that had been established throughout the United States.
And you're usually in military bases.
So that's why they're calling this Obama's Katrina.
I thought this was the federal emergency management agency.
Correct.
Right.
But Rush, isn't this an emergency?
Isn't this a federal emergency?
And shouldn't FEMA be involved in this?
It's not an emergency.
That's the point.
It isn't an emergency.
It is planned.
Yes, I agree.
I agree it is planned and I believe.
It's an emergency for you.
It's an emergency for people who live where you live.
But this is not an emergency.
This is payback.
This is who knows what.
This is political.
This has a political objective for Obama and the Democrats, but it's not from the, Obama's not treating it as an emergency.
Is he down there?
They said Bush never flew over, didn't go down to New Orleans for Katrina.
Has Obama been there?
Where's Obama visiting the refugee FEMA camps?
He's not there.
What emergency?
He's out raising money for more of this.
This is being done to overwhelm the government.
The Cloud and Piven scenario, overwhelm the government, this is just part of his plan.
Well, yeah, except it's overwhelming you.
It's overwhelming the country.
The government that results from this is what Obama wants.
Not being overwhelmed.
I mean, the ability, we're never set up to be able to provide for and handle limitless numbers of people who are unproductive.
This is so from everybody's perspective, yeah, it's an emergency the way you look at it.
It's an emergency for your neighbors.
It's an emergency for the doctors and everybody has to deal with this, but it's not an emergency.
This is a it's a it's it's it's a number of things, but it's not an emergency.
I defy anybody to tell me where the government's treating it as an emergency.
It's an emergency where you are violating a church order by calling me and talking about it.
That's not an emergency.
That's something far worse.
I appreciate your bravery.
I'm glad you took the time to call.
I'm a little long.
I've got to take a timeout here.
But I'm stunned at what you've had to say.
I'm also stunned at the attitude that you have about it.
Not being critical.
I don't mean to be critical.
I'm just that you have, it sounds like, accepted your fate.
And now you're trying to make the most of it, which is, I guess, all you can do.
But that in itself, to me, equals victory for them.
We'll be back.
Well, folks, if you had any question at all about what's going on, if you had any uncertainty or any doubt, let me explain it to you after the call from Ann and her husband, Eddie, the retired doctor.
The idea here, and this is why I say this is not an emergency.
It is for them, but it's not a government emergency.
It's not an Obama emergency.
This is not a problem for Obama and the Democrats.
The idea for them is to get as many people across the border and then transferred where they want them to live in this country as they can, as quickly as possible.
That's why gag orders are being issued.
Don't talk to anybody in the media and tell them about the diseases.
Don't talk and tell them about anything to do with these arriving kids or whoever else is also.
It's not just kids, folks, at 300,000.
These are government numbers, 300,000 since April.
It's not just kids.
So it's clear here, from the Democrat Party standpoint, the idea is to get as many people here across the border and then transferred out all over the rest of the country where they're going to live as quickly as possible.
FEMA might slow that down.
Legitimate health inspections might slow that down.
So you process them quickly, you bust them, you fly them, you do it before anybody really knows what's happening.
So far, only one little town in California even seems to be trying to stop this, and that's Murieta, California.
Everywhere else, they're just, what happened?
Well, they're overwhelmed.
They don't know what to do about it.
And think about what a perfect situation this is for the Democrats.
They are getting illegal alien single mothers with dependent children who are even more certain to vote Democrat.
And you could, did you hear Eddie and Ann?
They've already accepted it.
The problem for them is not stopping it.
The problem is dealing with it.
And so it isn't going to be long, folks, before this is just going to be accepted as the new normal, just like 8% unemployment or 12% or whatever, or everybody working part-time.
The new normal.
This is what it is.
And it's also highly likely that Obama's approval numbers in the Hispanic community might be on the rise as a result.
So this is not an emergency.
This is mission accomplished.
The Republican National Convention site 2016 has been announced.
Cleveland is where the Republican convention will be held.
Cleveland, Ohio.
That's, I guess, Hispanic outreach.
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