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	Yes, America's Anchor Man is away.
	This is your undocumented anchor man, honored, honored to be here.
	Uh Rush is out at a charity event, uh, but he will be back on Monday.
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	It's like he's never gone away.
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	Uh I mentioned that it's uh it's a kind of uh weird show uh today because neither H.R. nor Mr. Snerdley uh here.
	So uh I could easily just barricade the door and play cuts from my Christmas album uh for the for the rest of the hour.
	Um but we do have uh Greg who is uh call screening down in New York uh and we if you're if you're befuddled, if you're one of these uh lefties who likes to curse out uh Mr. Snerdley uh or HR and you'll befuddled, uh you don't feel free to go ahead and unleash a blizzard of four letter words on Greg, because he's he's up for it, so he was he's perfectly capable of handling it.
	One eight hundred two eight two eight eight two.
	It's the end of the week, and you know what that means.
	Live from Ice Station EIB, it's open line Friday.
	Yes, from Monday to Thursday, the show is under the tight authoritarian control of a Putinesque broadcast specialist who determines the topics that you, the listener, are permitted to raise on the show.
	But we now have a world without order on Friday.
	It is as if Putin has gone away for the day, and uh all hell is breaking loose.
	So if you want to call up and talk about anything you want, whatever is on your mind, now is the time to do it.
	1800, 282-2882, we will entertain any topic.
	But as I said, I am espe because I mentioned casually, I think in the first hour, that as a legal immigrant to the United States who has uh jumped through a bazillion hoops, uh largely pointless hoops, too, by the way, uh, and has done all gone through all filled in all the paperwork and uh uh and paid thousands of dollars in fees and all the rest of it,
	that I think we legal immigrants ought to take a class action suit out against the United States government uh on equality before the law grounds, that uh for example, sixty-five percent of the unaccompanied miners who have arrived so far this year have already been granted asylum.
	That means uh when you look at all the people th when you see these things about the unaccompanied miners, sixty-five percent of them are already here to stay.
	They're not going anywhere.
	They're gonna be voting Democrat in a few years' time.
	They're already here.
	Uh that's happened.
	That's a done deal.
	Uh and yet people who Americans who make the mistake of falling in love with a foreigner, it doesn't matter whether she's uh French uh or Papuan or Kazakh, uh their applications f to to get legal status for their lawful spouses.
	That's a non-discretionary application, and those things can take years.
	You want to bring in Mary Poppins to be the nanny for your kids, that can by the time you that's accomplished, they'll be in college.
	Uh so in other words, in other words, uh legal immigrants are grossly discriminated against here.
	I mentioned a few weeks ago on this show, Miriam Ibrahim, who was condemned, sentenced to death uh in in Sudan.
	She's a Christian, and they say, No, you can't be a Christian, you gotta be a Muslim.
	So they sentence her to death.
	Her husband is an American who lives in Manchester, New Hampshire.
	She has two US children, one of whom is disabled because she was forced to give birth to him in a uh in a Sudanese prison.
	Two US children.
	They're they're children of an American father.
	And the embassy in Khartoum and the State Department did nothing for them.
	They don't want them.
	Uh the fact that she's married to a US city, they don't care.
	They don't want to know.
	They don't want to know.
	But at the southern border, come on down.
	We got teddy bears for gangbangers.
	We're gonna give you medical care.
	Uh we're gonna put you in the school district, and we're gonna make uh we'll do we'll we'll bust it, we'll fly you all over the country, and at some point you're gonna be in the school district, and those school taxes will be falling on people who had no idea that the Rio Grande now flows through their checking account at the local bank until it comes time to pay their school district taxes.
	That's uh if you if you want to talk about that, I would be I would love to hear from anybody who thinks that, as we mentioned before the top of the show, with the lowest labor participation rate since 1936.
	In other words, the Great Recession, uh, the Great Depression, the Great Depression, lowest labor participation rate since 1936, with large numbers of 25 to 54 year old men out of the workforce permanently.
	Uh why you need tens of millions more low skilled immigrants.
	So I would like to uh I'd like to hear from that if you want to a couple of other things we haven't talked about.
	Uh Bradley Manning, who's now Chelsea Manning.
	Bradley Manning was the big um uh national security leaker who basically took all the US government secrets and uh put them once, downloaded them to one.
	This is really the issue, not him, but the fact that you can even do this that uh this this uh uh guy, this lady, uh Miss Manning, Miss Chelsea Manning, downloaded all this stuff onto a CD or DVD and gave it to the WikiLeaks guy, Julian Assange.
	Uh they have ruled out she wanted to be uh she's she's undergoing a sex change or gender identity reassignment or whatever they call it now.
	And she wanted to uh leave Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and go to a civilian facility.
	Because let's face it, and I'm not saying this just because of all the stuff we've heard from the VA, but really uh if you want to have I mean, just think about it.
	If you want to have a sex change, do you really want to have it done at a military hospital?
	I mean, I'm just saying, uh there's certain places I would not get a sex change.
	I would not want to have a sex change on the Scottish National Health Service.
	Uh the certain places where you want to pay the extra and go private.
	She didn't want to pay the extra, but she asked the Army, the Bureau of Prisons, uh, to transfer her to a civilian facility where she said she would get a better level of gender reassignment.
	And the Army has turned down her request.
	Uh but uh defense secretary Chuck Hagel uh has approved the start of uh the first level of gender reassignment treatment, a Pentagon official said Thursday.
	Defense officials have said the Army doesn't have the medical expertise needed to give Chelsea Manning the best uh sex change treatment.
	This is the state, the pitiful state of the United States Army in 2014, folks.
	What kind of army are we if we can't even give a decent sex change operation uh to a national security leaker like Bradley Manning?
	I mean, we ought to be able to have, you know, somebody might be out on the front lines in Afghanistan, and they might be in the mood for a sex change.
	And uh and that, yeah, yeah, serious changing of field dressing, I would say there, Mike.
	That would be we should be able this this we are responsible for forty-four percent of the planet's military budget, and yet the United States military is not capable of funding a really great gender reassignment uh out in Afghanistan or Iraq.
	And you never know when you might have suppose we do we do have to go into Libya, or we have to go back into uh back into Western Iraq to try and take Fallujah and Ramadi and Rutbar uh back from ISIS.
	You would certainly hope uh that the men and women and or formerly men, now women out on the front line would be able to get a decent uh sex reassignment surgery uh from the Pentagon.
	But Chuck Hagel says, no, no, no, we're not gonna do that.
	And he said all he said is that he's approved uh a rudimentary level of gender treatment to Chelsea Manning and some female undergarments.
	This is Bradley Manning, as was, now wants to be Chelsea Manning, and Chuck Hale says, Here, I uh I went to Walmart, here's six pairs of hanes, quit whining.
	That's great, isn't it?
	That's terrific.
	Anyway, that's the uh that you can begin to understand why uh Putin's able to take the Crimea and uh the uh rebels have uh destroyed Tripoli Airport and uh ISIS are now manning the U.S. built border post at Root Bar uh at the Trebile border crossing between Iraq and Jordan because Chuck Hagel and the Defense Department have been dealing with the critical issues like where Chelsea Manning is gonna get her gender reassignment surgery.
	So if you want to call if you want to talk about that, uh that's one of the priorities over at the uh Department of the Defense.
	You want to talk about this TSA screener.
	Uh an Orlando TSA screener told a reporter from the District of Columbia that he needed a passport to fly, because the District of Columbia isn't a state, so a DC driver's license isn't valid ID.
	Um and you know, that's the other facet.
	That's why it's so great to be undocumented.
	That's why the secret is to be undocumented.
	The easiest way through the bureaucracy is to say, I'm an illegal immigrant, so I got nothing.
	And then they're all worried in case they look racist for not treating you well, so they do everything you want.
	But the minute you have documentation, it's never the right documentation.
	It's like the district of the District of Columbia ID uh is not valid at Orlando Airport, according to the TSA, because the District of Columbia isn't a state.
	So uh and confess it was the other way around.
	I was uh in a bar in Hillsdale, Michigan, and somebody uh went up a a one of the young Hillsale College students uh went up to uh to try and get a drink, and uh the uh guy asked for ID and uh uh uh she showed the the the barman her passport and he said, Oh no, our pol the police department wrote let us accept federal ID.
	We're only allowed to U.S. passport isn't valid if you're 23 years old you want to get a drink, and a District of Columbia driver's license isn't valid uh if you want to try and board a plane in Orlando.
	And this is the joke.
	It's all the box checking, box checking for you.
	You gotta there's two classes of people.
	You know, when when when Bush and Harry Reed and all the rest of them said we want to bring people out of the shadows, I always thought, uh, you know, living in the shadows, it's so nice.
	It sounds so relaxing, it sounds so shady, sounds so soothing.
	Uh whereas the alternative is la living in the cleague lights of the hyper regulatory state where you've got paperwork for everything, uh, and there's ne no matter how much you fill in, it's never enough.
	So uh if you're if you're flying, if you're planning on flying anywhere and you live in the District of Columbia, the district because the District of Columbia is not a state, the Orlando, Florida TSA does not recognize it as state ID.
	These are the geniuses who are in charge of homeland security in the United States of America.
	Mark Stein for Rush, 1-800-282-2882.
	Mark Stein in for us on America's number one radio show.
	Let's go to Janice in uh in Port Jefferson, uh, on Long Island, New York.
	Janice, you're live on Open Line Friday.
	Great to have you with us.
	Hi, Mark, can you hear me?
	Yes, I can hear you loud and clear.
	Wonderful.
	So thank you for having me.
	Um I just I I called to tell that I I f I uh called my congressman because that's what they tell us we're supposed to do.
	So only recourse, and um asked when he was gonna have a town hall meeting, and that was a year ago.
	I got a call the other night that he was having a teleconference uh town hall meeting, and so you get to ask a question and then wait on the queue, and then he answers your question, but he cuts off any ability to interact with him.
	So he started off by saying like three lies that I can remember that m majority of N um NRA members want to have uh strict background checks.
	People are saving money with Obamacare and it's reducing the deficit, and we pay less taxes in New York than they pay in the rest of the world.
	And you couldn't say anything.
	So it was not a meeting, it was him dictating.
	So so you were allowed to be beamed in by uh by satellite to wherever your citizen representative is, and and he graciously agrees to accept your questions, but you are not allowed then to respond to his answers.
	Exactly.
	And uh because it because it's it's entirely reasonable that in a republic governed by citizen representatives, it would be grossly impertinent of you, Janice, to question anything uh that uh that your congressman has said you should you should be grateful that you you weren't made to uh submit your question in writing an underground undergo a background check as you would have had to do if you'd uh if you'd been uh questioning the great president himself but now you're now saying that it's not just the president but
	it now even humble congressmen are seeking to insulate themselves from rude upstart peasantry such as yourself Janice absolutely which brings me to my next question because I heard you say we should all start a class action suit against the government.
	I know several attorneys who would take that case but most of them tell me that we don't have standing.
	Is uh do you I mean is there a possibility and I'm sure there's millions of people that would join that and I'd really like to do something like that.
	Well I think you know I to be ruled that it does I f I for example uh I do I have standing in my own case.
	I've paid thousands of dollars of fees uh to the US government to emigrate uh to this country and uh they're waiving them for all kinds of other people so I think I do have standing.
	But I think and I think that and I think that's when you have, which is essentially and I wasn't joking when I was mocking the uh monarchical flourishes even of your pathetic congressman Janice uh because this is this is exactly when when the law giver in chief uh El Presidente Obama decides who the laws apply to then you know someone like Mr Smith at number 22 Elm Street has to pay the fee and
	Mrs Jones at 24 Elm Street doesn't.
	And the minute you have that, the minute you have uh basically the king deciding which laws apply to who, then I think we do have standing.
	And I would rather, by the way, I I I'm not happy with John Boehner's thing of uh of suing because I think John Boehner should be impeaching low level officials uh for dereliction of duty up to the Attorney General uh as Rush was advising uh and actually using the House of Representatives powers.
	But I am in favor of citizens.
	Actual s I I'm I'm I have to be cautious here because it's a kind it's a condition of my admission to this country that I'm not allowed to foment the overthrow of the United States government.
	So I I'm not I has I hasten to add I'm not doing any fomenting here Janice if you hear the whiff of fermenting in my voice it's not I'm saying in a completely non-fomenting sense if any members of the border patrol are listen oh I hear them kicking down the door now.
	Good luck with that, guys.
	Nobody gets deported here.
	If in an entirely non-fermenting sense, citizens have to be more assertive because you're being played for the saps of history.
	When all the benefits are being taken, when the benefits are being unequally distributed, then you do have standing because it's about whether you are primarily a citizen equal with all other citizens or whether what matters is whether you belong to privileged identity groups like these fellows being fast-tracked in through the border, Janice.
	you're yeah I think I think I think you would have standing on that actually.
	I think you would.
	Thank you very much.
	And by the way, Greg was a gentleman as much as he tried to instigate me.
	Oh he's not a gentleman at all Janice don't be so the j Greg is the Greg is the is covering for Mr. Snerdley and HR and he is not a gentleman.
	I'm not in favor of uh I'm not fomenting the overthrow of the United States government but you should be fomenting the overthrow of uh Greg uh Janice it's uh it's uh that's the you don't you don't don't don't mistake him for a pussycat it's great uh great he keeps putting on I'm glad to speak with you he keeps he keeps putting on these guys uh like Willie and Gary giving me a hard time all the time.
	So it's uh great uh great talking to you.
	Thank you for your call, Janice.
	Uh but you know at some point uh the the reason the reason why all this talk about impeaching the president and everything is going nowhere is because the because the pu the public isn't there for it.
	Um at some point the the public has to get serious about uh defending its rights.
	That doesn't mean impeaching the president but it does mean uh that d demanding uh that uh there be a rule of law.
	Right now people are just being buffeted from one thing to another one minute your health insurance policy is valid the next it's not and at some and at some point as well the Republican Party has to stand up for this.
	I was complaining let's be Bipartisan here for a moment.
	I was complaining about the appalling passivity, the appalling passivity of the president saying, Oh, well, this is a global problem.
	It was an Asian plane that came down in Europe, and maybe there was an African on board or someone from Latin America.
	So it's just the world's problem generally, nothing to do with me as the leader of the most powerful uh country in the world.
	And uh th there's a passivity too in John Boehner saying uh we we're try we want to sue uh we want to sue the president into doing his job.
	The House of Representatives controls the power of the past.
	The House if the House of Representatives doesn't like what the IRS is doing, it can actually cut off uh the dollars to the IRS.
	If if they don't like what uh Eric Holder is doing, he's basically treating them with contempt.
	He's a lawless attorney general, basically uh operating some kind of uh one man uh legal department there.
	They can do that to him too.
	Boehner needs to stop being passive too.
	Yes, Russia's out today.
	He will be uh back on Monday for a week of authentic full strength all American excellence in broadcasting.
	Uh Rush is uh doing a charity engagement today.
	It's uh it's an annual thing that he does.
	He does it this time every year, and he's very generous with his time like that.
	And uh it's just for today, he will be back Monday.
	The Malaysian Airlines flight uh Obama, when he he he did his joke thing yesterday, and Gary and Willie have uh had their say about how mean I'm being about uh the president on that, and then he did his serious thing today, uh as serious as he gets.
	He wasn't as serious as Mrs. Clinton was demanding when she said we need tough language and all the rest of it.
	What he said was that he'd um sent the FBI and the whatever it's called, the National Transportation Safety Board or whatever it is, uh he'd sent them into Ukraine.
	He'd all uh they're on their way to Ukraine.
	And that's all well and good.
	Uh, but that's the sort of thing that you when you go on television and you start naming the big shot acronyms from the great alphabet soup of federal regulation.
	Sounds as if you're doing something.
	There's no point sending the FBI and the NTSB to Kiev because the government of Ukraine does not control the area where the plane crashed.
	So in other words, it's doing something that looks like doing something, but in effect looks like doing nothing.
	The area that is uh where the plane crashed is controlled by these uh Russian pro-Russian rebels.
	And as a result, the site is now being looted.
	The scene has not been sealed.
	So raiders have gone through people who support these pro-Russian separatists, uh, or just people who are just trying their luck, so it's a free-for-all.
	And they've been the these pro-Russian separatists are not allowing anyone who matters to get to the site, but they're la allowing looters to go through and pluck suitcases from the victims and steal stuff like what's this, a paperback uh paperback book by Rachel Gibson uh priced in Euros uh in uh what is that?
	A German the German edition of some paperback book, they're stealing that, they're stealing uh all kinds of personal effects, they're going through their packs of playing cards, a 20-year note, they're going through and uh basically looting the site.
	So by the time the FBI and the NTSB uh sitting in Kiev ever get permission from the rebels uh where this plane crashed to actually go to this site, there will be nothing left.
	Now maybe that sounds familiar to you.
	Maybe that sounds familiar to you.
	Uh and if it does, it should, because it's exactly the same thing that happened with Benghazi.
	With Benghazi, the uh you know, president uh fundraiser said uh that uh he was sending in this acronym and that acronym and all the hot shot acronyms, the FBI were going in to treat Benghazi.
	What happened, which is US sovereign territory, US sovereign territory.
	It in law it's no different.
	That Benghazi facility uh from the uh Holland Tunnel uh in New York.
	It's no it's American sovereign territory.
	And yet they were not, they were prevented from going in and prevented from getting to the scene, and in effect, everybody and his aunt in Benghazi went through there uh and picked up what they like, including all the information about locals who'd been helping uh the United States.
	In other words, all the local contacts who'd been providing details on the jihadists and all the rest of it, all their stuff was looted and taken from that facility.
	So by the time the FBI got to poke around in it, there was nothing left.
	And it's going to be the same thing here.
	Now what do what do serious leaders do?
	What do serious leaders do?
	Well, the guy who controls that crime scene is Putin.
	These are Putin's guys there.
	September the twelfth, two thousand and one, George W. Bush got on the phone to Putin and said, This is what's going to happen.
	We want to use your bases in Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan, whatever it is, the one without any vowels in it, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan.
	We want to use the old Soviet bases, uh Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan to access Afghanistan from the north.
	You got a problem with that?
	Uh and Putin, understanding that for once the Americans were serious, said no, I haven't.
	General Musharov, uh, he got a call.
	He didn't rate a call from Bush.
	Uh he didn't even rate a call from Colin Powell.
	It was Colin Powell's deputy, Richard Armitage, who called him up and said, This is what we want and this is what's going to happen.
	And Musharov said, uh, it was mainplayed to me that I had no choice in the matter.
	And I had to do it.
	And that's what ought to have happened here.
	Putin controls that crime scene.
	Putin was the one.
	Putin is the one that Obama should have called, instead of going on TV and announcing that he's flying in the National Transportation Safety Board, uh, for whom there'll be nothing to prowl around in, he should have uh he should have got on the phone to Putin and said, You've done your guys, your guys, guys under your direct control, uh because these like uh nickel and dime rebels and that part of the world don't know how to operate these missiles.
	The fellows who knew how to operate them are your guys, and they shot this plane out of the sky.
	And we expect that crime scene sealed now.
	Someone in the Kremlin has the phone number, the direct line has the cell phone guy to the guy uh who knows where the field is and who are the fellas in the field.
	And we want that scene sealed now.
	And we're gonna be sending our guys in, they're on their way now, and they're coming with uh they're they're coming with papers from you saying they're gonna seal off this thing.
	And that's what that's one, and not just Obama, but in fact the Dutch Prime Minister and the Australian Prime Minister.
	Uh they should all be doing that.
	But right now we have the simulacrum of action, where these guys uh Obama comes on and he puts on his serious face and he knows he's not kibitsing at the fundraiser, and he knows he's not shooting the breeze with Beyonce on the tonight show, and he's got his he knows he's not doing his new man shtick with the ladies on the view.
	He's got his sober world crisis world statesman face on, and he says we're sending the FBI and the NTSB to Ukraine.
	And it doesn't matter, because that's not where the plane crashed.
	Ukraine's sovereignty doesn't run in this corner of eastern Ukraine anymore, any more than America's sovereignty runs uh at the southern border anymore.
	Uh it's not within their control.
	And uh the important thing to do was to tell Putin you screwed up big time here, and if you don't want things to get worse for you, you will seal that crime scene now.
	And he doesn't do that, Obama.
	And that's why Putin doesn't fear anything.
	Do you think if Putin the the most likely explanation for this is that some of Putin's goons made an error of judgment and shot the wrong plane out of the sky?
	Because it's not in Putin's interest to start taking down uh flights out of Amsterdam.
	That's not gonna work for him long term.
	So it's a serious error.
	And Putin must be thinking every moment now, how is the world gonna go on this?
	And do you think if he was seriously concerned about serious, meaningful sanctions against Russia, about serious meaningful action against Russia, that he would be letting his goons loot Uh the the the scene where this plane crashed picking through the bodies, taking jewelry, taking uh the wallet and pulling out the four twenty euro notes that are in there.
	Do you think he'd be allowing that to happen if he didn't if he he if he didn't hadn't watched Obama's press conference and thought, ah, so as usual, the bear, the American bear, is going to do nothing.
	A big big nothing.
	I have nothing to fear about.
	I should go quiet for a bit, but then I would forget it and I can start killing my enemies and annexing territory all over again, the guy is going to do nothing.
	He he watched Obama, he grasped the passivity.
	And so it doesn't matter how many, you know, how many guys jet into Kiev.
	If there's nothing left for them to post who's to say they won't find the black box.
	That'd be pretty cool souvenir, wouldn't it?
	Wow, you shoot an airliner out of the sky, and then you get to it and you steal the black box, and then you're the only one you and your pals are gonna be the only ones who've ever gonna be able to hear any of the chit chat that's on there.
	That's that's what's going on right now at the scene where this uh uh this plain land.
	And people sometimes think, you know, oh, you know, all this foreign stuff, it doesn't matter, America doesn't need that.
	There isn't a single thing made in this country in case you haven't noticed.
	Everything at Walmart is made in China.
	You need a certain amount of global order.
	Uh everything, all your big American brand name companies, doesn't matter whether it's, you know, whether you're talking about Microsoft or anything else, they don't make any of their stuff here, they make it all over then it has to get here uh to be b to be bought at Walmart.
	So you need a certain amount of global order.
	And when America turns in on itself, when you have President Fundraiser uh fist bumping in Wilmington diners as his priority, taking a wide-bodied jet and a 40-car motorcade to fist bump in a Wilmington diner.
	Uh in that vacuum of power, all kinds of other people make mischief.
	And suddenly you find that there's problems with delays getting your computer parts, and suddenly the stuff in Walmart doesn't seem quite so cheap anymore, because it takes uh you have to give a bit more thought to how it's going to get from whichever factory in China it's made to over here.
	And suddenly uh the whole global tourism market doesn't work anymore, because you're gonna be on your way to a beautiful vacation hotspot and then you're blown out of the sky.
	Uh in the absence of responsible global power, all kinds of other people make mischief, and that's what's going on right now.
	Mark Stein and Farush will take your calls straight ahead.
	Mark Stein in for Rush on America's number one uh radio show.
	Let's go to Felix uh out on the West Texas streets of Laredo.
	Felix, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	How are you doing, Mr. Stein?
	I'm I'm doing good, thanks.
	How are you?
	Well, I was listening to you, and you're talking about the class action series.
	My wife is just like you.
	She went through the fees, she went through the process, came here, took her about almost a year and a half to get here.
	Right.
	And went through all the biometrics, all the photographing, all the interviews, all the medical appointments and so on and so forth, the poking and prying, taking blood, yada yada yeah.
	I think it is a very good idea.
	You don't hear a lot of legal aliens saying anything, because I I believe that their voice is actually being suppressed.
	I have heard people tell me things because of my job saying, Well, what about us?
	What about us?
	We can't hear legally, but you're gonna let these guys go?
	What's the point?
	I am uh an I'm a federal agent with uh and uh in immigration.
	I'm not gonna think which office, but uh Well that's a very Oh, I thought you were on to me for a moment.
	I thought you'd heard me fermenting uh fifty fifteen minutes ago, and I thought, wow, that's for us.
	I start fermenting at uh whatever it was, two thirty and at two fifty the immigration agents uh uh calling.
	Now listen listen th Felix, which country is your wife from?
	She's Russian, actually.
	She's Russian.
	And so she's come to what she thinks of is uh the land of the free and she's had to do all these blood tests and all the rest.
	I would say this, Felix, And and you know, I'm sure uh it's different when she crosses the border with you.
	But uh when if she were to say be flying in on her own from uh London or Paris or Toronto or whatever, one of the reasons I think why people don't speak up about this is because they they they genuinely fear that if they complain about it that something bad is going to happen to them.
	And that's that's the thing is that once you're in the once people are in the system, they're terrified that someone will be punished and they'll be moved three three uh three uh you know years back down the line and have to go starting from scratch, Felix.
	I think there's a lot of fear about it in that.
	Well, part of that fear is also because of uh their own experiences with their own home governments and their oppression.
	Um it's really sad to see that they're that these fears are are being projected on our government with merit.
	Yeah, no, that's the that's the point with merit, Fi Felix.
	And by the way, I'll tell you I think I think that's that's the issue there, that that you that you know, your your wife is is genuinely being put through uh, you know, an onerous process that would not happen if she in your part of the world, if she just basically uh was coming in like these people who've been fast tracked through the asylum process.
	It's uh it's uh it's a it's a terrible business then.
	She went on international travel last year to go back home, visit family and everything.
	She took my son uh or our son over to go meet grandma and uncles and and cousins that he hadn't met before.
	Right.
	So uh and she she said that uh moving through customs and everything with here in Texas was a little easier.
	Uh and didn't have any problems back then.
	It was 2013.
	But if you fast forward now, I I believe it's getting a little bit more there's more scrutiny.
	No, no.
	And and that's uh yeah, I mean I mean I'm I'm interested, I'm interested to hear that that uh Felix, because people have horror stories.
	The one that always sticks in my mind uh as as we close out this show, the one that always sticks in my mind was something that came up a few days after 9-11.
	Dina Gilby, she's a British subject who was living in New Jersey.
	Her husband had a visa to work in the World Trade Center, and he died on September eleventh, helping rescue his f co-workers in the World Trade Center.
	He died.
	And a few days later, Dina Gilby is informed by what was then the INS that because he's no his work visa is expired with him in the rubble of the World Trade Center, she and her American-born children have to be deported from the United States.
	In other words, the same government that let in the Saudi and other terrorists who killed her husband, the the same government that let in the people who murdered her husband, their priority circa September the 17th was to deport uh the the widow and the children he'd left behind.
	And it was only because a few of us made a big fuss in the British press that Tony Blair got to hear about it, and Tony Blair took it up with George W. Bush.
	And even then, the INS, some and that's the point of the I think about that person.
	I think about the dead husk of a bureaucrat who on September the 17th, 2001 thinks the priority is to deport the widow, the widow, the legal resident widow of a man who died saving Americans in the World Trade Center.
	There is a sickness in the heart of the all-powerful bureaucracy.
	You have to be a dead soul to regard that as your priority uh on whatever it was, September the 17th, 2001.
	Mark Stein for Rush, we'll close it out in a moment.
	Mark Stein uh in for Rush.
	Have you heard about this uh film, the new NWA biopic, um uh NWA of the rap group, uh whatever it is, uh non-Caucasians with attitude or whatever, they had a casting cow uh call for the girls.
	The A girls could be the hottest of the hottest and were described as any of any author ethnicity, but the D girls had to be African American, poor and not in good shape.

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