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I mentioned at the top of the program that there are a lot of people that are not happy with this.
There are a lot of groups not happy with what Obama did last night.
And it just amazes me.
And it really does.
These groups are unhappy because Obama didn't do what they expected, which obviously means Obama has been lying to some of these people in these private meetings with him.
For example, I have here in my formerly nicotine stained fingers a piece in one of my tech blogs.
I don't know which it is.
I printed it out.
It doesn't matter.
It's a Reuters story.
It's what it is.
President Barack Obama's plans to make life a little easier for some foreign tech workers.
But Silicon Valley representatives are disappointed that his immigration changes will not satisfy long-standing demands for more visas and faster green cards.
Now, Zuckerberg guy at Facebook, he was one of the spearheads.
He formed a PAC and was raising money.
I forget the name of his group, but he was out there and he's been on a different page of this thing from the get-go.
He, as a representative of Silicon Valley, has been demanding more H-1B visas, meaning educated, highly educated foreign students who become educated in America, and the tech community has wanted more of those people to be granted permission to stay.
And when Zuckerberg put together his group, it wasn't about Mexican immigrants, but it was.
Zuckerberg ended up supporting inadvertently what Obama was actually going to do in the first place, but Zuckerberg and his buddies are acting surprised today.
And it has to mean that when Obama was meeting with them, and he goes to Silicon Valley a lot, fundraisers, California, Hollywood, it must mean that he, I guess he had to have misled these people for them to be mad today.
Which leads me to ask, just how, how, well, not bright, these people, how could they miss this?
How in the world could anybody paying even half attention miss what this was really all about?
Let me stick with the story here and I'll explain what I mean.
In a speech on Thursday, Obama outlined plans to use executive authority to help millions of undocumented people.
He also announced minor adjustments to cut red tape for visa holders and their families, including letting spouses of certain H-1B visa holders get work permits.
But tech industry leaders said the changes were limited.
This holiday season, the undocumented advocacy community got the equivalent of a new car, and the business community got a wine and cheese basket, complained one lobbyist, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The lobbyist didn't want anybody to know who he was because he knows that people like him get targeted for speaking out against the regime.
So instead of more temporary H-1B visas, which allow non-citizens with advanced skills and degrees in specialty occupations to work in the country up to six years, the 200,000-member U.S. chapter of the Institute of Electrical Electronics Engineers was hoping for measures to reduce the backlog of H-1B holders awaiting green cards.
Russ Harrison, a senior legislative representative for this Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, said, well, if this is all there is, then the president's missed a real opportunity.
He could have taken steps to make it easier for skilled immigrants to become Americans through the green card system, protecting foreign workers and Americans in the process.
What did they think was going to happen here?
One thing that none of us have ever been confused about, there was no way that Obama was going to increase the number of highly skilled, highly educated immigrants in this country.
That's not who this was about.
That's not who this has ever been about.
In fact, reasonable immigration would be about just this group of people, but it never, the Democrat Party is not interested in this group.
Now, the Democrat Party will take donations from people who think Obama is going to ramp this up for them.
But this is this, I don't know.
I'm trying not to say how stupid can people be?
Because I'm constantly amazed at, I guess it's ignorance that I'm thinking of here.
I really am.
How ignorant can some of these people be to not see what's right in front of their face?
And it's not even being hidden.
Obama has not misled anybody in public.
Mr. Snertley, have you ever doubted who the primary targets are beneficiaries of Obama's amnesty plans?
Have you ever been confused about who Chuck Schumer and the Democrats are talking about when they talk about amnesty?
Not for one second.
So why in the world are these wizards of SMART in Silicon Valley, how did they get bamboozled and misled into believing that Obama was going to increase immigration from MIT?
Or from Harvard or from Yale or the University of Mumbai?
I mean, what, what, what, no.
Well, they gave him money.
They raised money for this.
Now, they're being very, very guarded in their expressions of surprise and shock and discontent.
Some of them are not even being named because they know the regime goes after them.
For instance, here, it says that the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and technology companies want spouses and children to be excluded from employment-based green card allotments, which would thereby increase availability for other foreign tech workers seeking green cards.
So these people who say, screw the families, we, we, we, we, and Obama is, no, we're not going to screw the families, we're going to.
We're going to unite families.
Families from all over the world are not going to be able to come here and get together on us.
Obama doesn't care if his people ever learn to read as long as they can spot the D on a ballot.
If they can do that, mission accomplished.
And then on the other side, we have, well, I don't know.
By the way, there is going to be amnesty too.
I mean, this is dipping a toe in the water.
This is 4.5, 5 million people.
There are still 7 million to go.
I'm telling you, this is just a test.
Well, a little bit more of a test, but I guarantee you, Obama's gauging reaction here.
I guarantee you, he's measuring what kind of pushback there is.
And so far, there isn't any.
And he's going to assume, this doesn't take any wizard of smart to figure out.
All you have to do is be honest and admit what kind of guy a liberal Democrat community organizer is.
Obama happens to be that guy, and therefore we can predict easily in advance what he's going to do and what he wants to do, what his motivations are, what his objectives are, and everything about it.
And right now, Obama is measuring: is there any pushback to this?
Okay, I have just blown up the Constitution.
I just fired a BB gun.
There are holes in that Constitution.
And he's looking to see if anybody is going to pick it up off the floor, try to take his gun away from him, his BB gun.
And if he doesn't see any of that, I guarantee you, he's going to make these next two years filled with exactly this kind of thing and exactly this kind of rationale.
Hey, you know, I'm trying to do the great thing for America, but Congress won't cooperate with me, so I've got no choice.
I got to do it myself.
He won't care if his approval number is at 30%, 27%.
It won't matter.
He's never going to be on a ballot again.
So it's plain to see.
And the next shoe to fall, I think, could be Iran, but it might be the remaining 7 million immigrants that Obama did not grant amnesty to last night.
I mean, how are we going to pick the 5 million that get it?
Who's going to tell the 7 million, sorry, not your turn?
How are we going to decide this?
They may already have that.
Anyway, Univision, the anchor at Univision again, Jorge Ramos, and he's got this figured out, and he's not happy.
He joins the tech buddies in being unhappy, but for a whole different reason.
Univision anchor Jorge Ramos described Obama's executive action as paying a debt to the Latino community.
In an interview with Fusion colleague Alicia Menendez, Jorge Ramos denied that Obama had kept his promise on immigration.
Obama hasn't even gotten close to keeping his promise on immigration in full because he had pledged to take action in his first year, and he didn't do it until his sixth year.
Jorge Ramos went on to say that President Obama must do more.
And he's still leaving out six to seven million undocumented aliens that need help.
Asked whether Obama had kept his promise, Jorge Ramos said, well, not exactly.
What President Obama promised during 2008 was to present during his first year in office immigration reform.
And that would have applied to the 11 million undocumented immigrants of the country.
He's going to benefit more than 4 million people, the undocumented parents of U.S. citizens and legal residents.
However, that would not include another 6 to 7 million undocumented immigrants in this country.
This guy wrote to Time magazine yesterday an email, and he claimed credit for this.
He said the Latino community who had pressured Obama into doing this and said it's a triumph for the Latino community.
It'll demonstrate our newfound power.
This is not something that we got.
This is something we fought for.
And they're viewing this as a debt that's being paid.
A debt that is being repaid.
Now, how do you what you must believe if you look at what Obama did last night as paying a debt?
Tell me, what is it?
Well, I don't think it's that.
I mean, yeah, they got him elected.
I don't think it's that at all.
I don't think this debt, I don't think when I don't think Jorge Ramos is talking about election payback or anything when he talks about how Latino people are owed a debt.
I think he's talking about the fact that California used to be Mexico and that Arizona used to be Mexico and whatever else.
And I think the debt that they're talking about goes far beyond Obama's first year promise.
I think the debt involved, hey, you have been using Hispanics to pick your fruit, to take out your trash, to wash and drive your cars, to cut your lawns.
And it's gone on long enough.
They get paid, they do, but it's menial work that real Americans won't do.
How do you think the Hispanic community reacts to that?
A guy like Jorge Ramos, when he hears people support amnesty, because there are jobs that Americans just won't do it.
Well, what is that?
What does that make the jobs that we Hispanics are doing then?
Dirt jobs?
Don't I'm telling you, it offends them.
I mean, it offends the hell out of them.
Well, of course I know there's some jobs.
I don't care about it.
I don't care that there's some jobs Mexicans won't do now because they have risen above them and those jobs, Central America.
That's not the point.
The point is when you hear a guy start talking about how Obama owes them a debt, here's, let me put it another way.
I think the Democrat Party has realized they have, what's the term?
They've maxed out with the black population.
I mean, how much better can they do?
They get 93% every election.
Okay, that's done.
We got that.
We own it.
It's time to build on that.
And so up next are the Hispanics.
And the Democrats are going to treat them and corral them the same way they did the African-American community.
In essence, what Hispanics have been doing all of these years when they've been doing jobs that are beneath Americans, it's been the equivalent of slavery.
You mark my words.
I'm not saying Obama is going to tell.
This is going to be the activist impetus for the immigration activist groups.
And it's now going to become a matter of dignity.
That's what this debt being repaid really gets to.
This is only the beginning, I think.
We'll just have to see.
Time will tell.
I got to take a break here, folks, and we get back and we'll swerve right back into your phone calls.
Don't quote.
Sholo, Arizona.
One of my all-time favorite city names.
Sholo, Arizona.
This is Bill.
Bill, great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
This is a real pleasure and a highlight of my life.
Well, I appreciate that.
Thank you very much, sir.
Obama gave us a gift last night that he didn't know he gave.
And the only way to get the word out is to talk to you, and the world listens.
All of the illegal aliens have to sign up, and they have to pay a fine.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, whoa.
Did Obama say that last night?
Yeah.
They have to sign up and pay a fine and a few odds and ends.
Well, eventually, the conservatives are going to get control of the government, and we have the list of five million aliens.
And all you have to do is send the bus around to deport them.
We know who they are and where they're at.
And their bank accounts will have been drained by Obama paying the fines and taxes.
Bill, do you think the Republicans would do that?
Well, I don't know, but the only way that the Republicans are ever going to know this is to listen to you, because they certainly wouldn't listen to me.
Yeah, but they're not going to round up the five million that Obama.
they'll have the list yeah but even if they're always saying for years i've heard well we don't know where they're at and we don't know who they are They're not round them up.
Bill, the Republicans aren't going to deport anybody.
Well, I know that, too, but it makes them nervous thinking that they might.
Well, so what?
Okay, so the city.
Well, if they think that they're going to get deported, do you think they're going to sign up?
If they think they're going to get deported, no.
The Republican.
No, that would never.
That would never.
In fact, I don't even think they're going to be able to round them up to collect the fines.
Well, probably.
But it's just the idea that if they're stupid enough to sign up, they should be deported.
No.
Stupid enough.
Bill, the world's listening.
If they're stupid enough to sign up, they should be.
Here's a guy looking at it with humor.
You've got to admire him.
The guy's trying to laugh about this.
Because sometimes that's all you can do.
But look, I have to admit something, folks.
And I know that you're probably going to be mad.
I didn't watch it.
I couldn't.
I knew what he's going to say.
I had my advance word.
We knew what he was going to say.
And I knew that I was going to have a transcript of it.
And I knew that people are going to be sending me an email expressing shock and outrage.
And so I didn't.
I read it.
I didn't.
I didn't.
I didn't want to.
I didn't even want to turn on cable news last night.
I didn't want to hear a syllable about this.
It's almost like I was in a state of denial.
If I don't hear it, maybe it isn't really happening.
I know.
I know what happened.
But I have to.
Did Obama announce a collection?
A fine?
No, did you watch it?
Well, did he mention signing and collecting fines?
Okay, okay, okay.
That's Schumer's plan.
That's not going to happen.
All right, look, Obama's not going to pay, make anybody pay a fine here.
What he was talking about last night, I knew this is the case.
So I know the Schumer bill inside out.
I've had that bill presented to me.
I've had them present that to me, and I've had them say to me, If you call it amnesty, you're going to kill it because it's not amnesty.
And they spelled out what it was.
And there's going to be this magical ID card that everybody's going to be given.
And they're going to have to get in line.
They're going to come out of the shadows.
They're going to sign up.
They have to admit who they are.
They have to pay any back taxes and they have to pay fines.
And they go to the back of the line and so forth.
And if they do all that, fine and nandy.
This is what's being presented as the Gang of Eight bill.
And my problem with it is I just don't believe that.
I mean, that may be what they pass, but then next week they'll come right back and say, how could we not include the right to vote in this?
I mean, look at what all we're making them do.
Many of them have been paying taxes for years, and it's just unfair that they can't vote.
It'd be amended and changed.
Just concoct some scheme to get the thing passed and then change it to what they really want it to be.
So I know what the Gang 8 bill is, and it does require that.
But I don't think Obama was talking about collecting fines last night.
There was no way.
Right.
Now, well, he's because they pay back taxes again.
I just don't believe any of it.
All I know is he's not going to make them pay a fine.
He mentioned a fine last night when he's talking about the Gang 8 bill.
Let me put this in perspective so that we do not lose track here, lose sight of what's actually been done and what's happening.
Obama legalized over 5 million illegals.
But it may be not totally correct to say legalized them.
What happened is he essentially told every law enforcement department in the country to not pursue them.
So they are the beneficiaries of prosecutorial discretion.
Their crimes have been ignored.
Now, what Obama is trying to say is because he's decided not to prosecute them, that that makes them legal.
And that he doesn't have the power to do.
That is what is unconstitutional about what he did.
Because no matter prosecutorial discretion does not allow a prosecutor, in this case, the president, to write law.
And it doesn't permit the prosecutor to change a law.
Congress writes them.
They don't enforce them.
That's the executive.
Okay, the executive is choosing not to enforce this law, the deportation law, on these 5 million.
But then Obama went further, and he's claiming since he's not going to prosecute them, that means they're not breaking the law anymore.
Doesn't mean they're not breaking the law.
They're still in violation of the law.
They're just not being prosecuted for it.
It's a huge difference.
So, you know, he's, I'm sure he's talking about giving them work permits.
If they can get work permits, they're legalized.
And he can't do that.
He cannot give them benefits.
That is spending, and that has to originate in the House of Representatives.
So none of what he did last night is in any way, shape, man, or form constitutional.
But the supporters don't care because to them, this is not about this is payback.
All of Obama, everything Obama is doing, you must understand, is considered payback from one victim group to another victim group who think they have been wronged since the founding of the country.
They have been victimized, discriminated against, whatever.
They have been impugned.
They've been laughed at.
They've been made fun of.
They have been discriminated against.
Whatever.
And this is payback.
And that's why somebody like Geraldo can run around and justify this on the basis that, well, this is only fair.
The law doesn't matter.
The Constitution doesn't matter.
This is about feel-good.
This is about getting even with people.
And that's why Jorge Ramos is calling this just the beginnings of a debt that's being repaid.
These people aren't concerned with any of the constitutional aspects of it or the law in any way, shape, manner, or form.
And Obama said as little as he had to say in terms of specifics.
All he wants is the flood, the future Democrat voters, and the ensuing chaos.
And there is something like this every week.
Now, everybody's waiting on pins and needles for Ferguson to drop.
And when that drops, people will forget about this for a minute.
See what happens in Ferguson.
And then after Ferguson, there's going to be something else that happens because there always is.
There's always a crisis.
There's always a crisis that creates chaos that requires federal involvement and intervention.
Obama said with his deal, you can come out of the shadows and get right with the law.
That's what this deal, quote unquote.
With this deal, you can come out of the shadows and get right with the law.
And I'm sorry, but he doesn't have the constitutional authority to do that.
If you are accused of, let me think of anything.
Let's say you're pulled over.
You're a running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers, and you're pulled over and you got 20 pounds of marijuana in your car.
And the cop is a big Steelers fan and decides to let you go.
Decides, well, we're not going to pursue this.
I got more, bigger crimes to deal with.
So the running back of the Steelers gets back in the car, heads on to the team plane to Philadelphia to play a game.
It doesn't mean that it's now legal to carry 20 pounds or 20 ounces, whatever marijuana in your car.
It just means that you were not prosecuted.
For that marijuana example to be analogous to what Obama did, the cop, after stopping the player that had 20 ounces of marijuana, not only would let him go, but would pay him for it or some such thing or go out and let him get more.
Obama did not make anybody legal because he doesn't have, well, he might have, but he doesn't have the constitutional authority to do that.
And it's not a fine point.
This is not a matter of argument, constitutional or otherwise.
It's not a narrow point.
It's glaring.
What he did last night is not permitted.
But nobody's stopping him.
So there we are, Rodney in Denver.
Real, you're next.
Great to have you open line Friday here on the EIB network.
Hello.
So this is a tremendous honor.
I'm a young black male out here in Denver, and me and my brother, we used to watch you back on television, and we didn't really know anything about politics.
We just liked what you said about Clinton, and it was just really entertaining for us.
Well, thank you.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
No problem.
An honor.
Also, just a little bit of background.
My dad was a juvenile delinquent counselor for 20 years, so speaking proper English and working hard was something really stressed in our household.
So I guess you can call father privilege.
Anyway, I just really think that the Republican Party, since the Democrats feel they have most black voters in their back pocket, I feel that Republicans should have almost kind of an open invitation to join the Republican Party.
And the reason I say this is because people who are disprivileged or poor, they're not going to go anywhere with a Democratic mentality.
And I feel that if I feel that a lot of youth in this country, black youth, not only don't know what the American dream is, don't believe in it, they don't even know what it is.
And a lot of poor black people, what they hear from Republicans is that they're going to take away their welfare, they're going to take away this.
When the message really should be, these are the benefits of rolling up your sleeves.
These are the benefits of working hard.
And if you follow these conservative principles, one year from now, you're going to have a much better life than what you are sitting around waiting for the government to come rescue you.
And I just think it's something that needs to be emphasized because with Rodney, I agree with you 100%.
The one thing the Republican Party is not doing is articulating the kind of philosophy or belief system that you just described.
Conservatism, call it what you will.
The Republican Party's not talking to anybody that way, much less minorities.
Nobody's out there talking about the principles of hard work, the American dream, rolling up your sleeves, self-reliance, rugged individualism.
But you said something I want to go back to.
You said that young blacks hear Republicans say they want to take away their welfare, whatever.
Did you mean to say it that way?
Is that actually how Republicans are heard speaking?
Or is that what young blacks are told Republicans want to do?
In my opinion, absolutely yes, because that's when it's like there, it's like I know, you know, people who are obviously don't, you know, that are black, that don't, you know, think anything Republican.
And right away, like, for instance, a long time ago, my father is fairly conservative.
My mother is more liberal.
When I asked her, when I was a young child, what's the difference between the Democrat and the Republican Party?
She told me, oh, well, the Democratic Party is for the poor and the Republican Party is for the rich.
Right.
I believe that for 20, 20, some, 25, some odd years.
A lot of people still do.
Exactly.
And what I basically did is when it's interesting because when Barack Obama had a chance to obviously win the presidency, I was excited like a lot of minorities out here.
And I voted for Barack Obama his first term.
And then I, you know.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
I know.
Just a minute.
No, no.
I'm interested.
You've been a conservative, I'm assuming, since your dad was raising you all those years ago.
But even though you were a true believer, staunch conservative, you still voted Obama, so it was a racial loyalty thing.
Yes, and it was also kind of a little bit of ignorance.
I kind of didn't really know any better.
And I remembered hearing some of the rhetoric that was going on in the news about, you know, what you would say or Beck would say.
And I said, well, let me tune in.
I remember watching Rush when I was younger.
Let me tune in.
And I started listening to you again on the radio.
And I said, you know what?
I'm going to start kind of looking up the history of the Democratic Party.
And you know as well as I do.
Wow, it was like it was kind of like coming out of the Matrix or something.
It was like, oh my goodness, I had no idea that the Democratic Party has a history of racism and keeping people oppressed.
And I was like, oh my goodness.
And I actually ended up changing my, I changed my affiliation.
I'm a registered Republican.
And Rush, it is hard to be a black Republican anywhere.
It's hard to be a Republican, period.
Rodney, tell me about it.
Hang on a minute.
I have to take a break here, but I don't want to go yet.
I got just a couple more things I want to ask you if you can wait.
Can you?
Oh, yeah, no problem.
Cool.
We'll be right back.
Don't go away.
Okay, Rodney, in Denver, very quickly, very quickly, do you think the Republicans have an opening with the African-American community given what is happening with immigration now?
There's a huge opportunity here to, because I know there's a lot of, it's been said before, that a lot of poor black people don't feel that Barack Obama has done enough for the black community.
That's right.
And now Obama's bent over backwards to help a different group.
Absolutely.
And so that might be an opportunity for the Republicans to make a pitch.
It's a branding thing they're going to have to overcome.
I think it can be done.
Look at it.
It happened with you.
It happened with you.
It happened with my TV show and my radio show.
I can do it.
I know it can be done.
And I know what it takes.
This is what's so frustrating.
You know how to reach people.
I do.
They do too.
They're just somehow, for some reason, unwilling to do it.
It's called conservatism.
And it does.
It works.
Every time it's presented in the right way.
Rodney, I'm really glad you called.
I appreciate it.
You know, all these new arrivals, these new legals, they're going to expect benefits.
They're going to expect, I mean, we're bending over backwards here.
Look at the attitude they're going to have.
I mean, they're going to have a lot of expectations.
Let's put it that way.
Obama's creating expectations.
They are a preferential class now, and they are going to understand this.
You know, our previous caller had a point.
I mean, at some point, if these people come out of the shadows and sign up, they are going to, for the first time in their lives, be known.
The government is going to know where they are.
The government is going to know who they are.
And in the wrong hands, that might not work out well for them.