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Sept. 1, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 1, 2016, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Buck Sexton here on the EIB.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
Got a lot to talk about today because of the one and only Donald Trump.
Wow.
Quite a speech last night.
Definitely going to want to hear your thoughts on this.
We'd like to get in a whole bunch of calls today.
Lines are open, 800-28-22882.
The media was ready to pounce.
They were about, you could tell this was the sort of situation where they would have had the pieces already written about, oh, Donald Trump has swindled his followers.
It was all a big con.
He's a lot of the central idea of his campaign, the thing that he used, the one issue that rocketed him to the top of the polls in the Republican primary, a spot from which he never fell.
The one issue was immigration, and this was going to be the day.
The speech last night, set up by travel to Mexico to meet with the president of Mexico, was all going to fall apart.
He was going to sit down with President Peña Nieto and then travel up to Phoenix and then tell all of his supporters that, you know, he really was in favor of comprehensive immigration reform and thought that a pathway to citizenship was a good thing.
He would have been bending the knee to the Democrats, to the left, to the liberals within the Republican Party, and he would have proven to all of his followers that the entire thing was just one giant fraud.
But then he came out swinging.
And this was the equivalent of a Trump roundhouse kick, a roundhouse kick of which Chuck Norris would even be proud to the mainstream media and to people who doubted his resolve on the campaign trail on this one issue.
Everyone's saying it now.
He doubled down.
Of course, it depends.
If they're on the left, they're saying this was the most vile, the most vile, Mussolini-like, Hitler-like speech ever given in the history of the United States.
I mean, people are completely freaking out about this in the media.
And then on the right, there's sort of a, oh, really?
I guess he was serious about this.
He answered some big questions.
The biggest question that had been looming over the last couple of weeks was amnesty, right?
Because people thought, well, this was what separated Trump from the rest of the Republican field, although Ted Cruz did sound more and more hawkish on immigration as the campaign went on, as the primary went on.
But was he going to decide that, yeah, you know what?
There's no choice.
We have to, in fact, allow for an amnesty.
Sorry, guys.
I know all the rallies were fun and it was great.
And, you know, my cool hat, you can still buy it in stores.
But it was all really just for show.
That's what people thought was going to happen yesterday.
And in one moment, really, Trump was able to annihilate that whole narrative by saying there will be no amnesty.
We will break the cycle of amnesty and illegal immigration.
We will break the cycle.
There will be no amnesty.
Our message to the world will be this.
You cannot obtain legal status or become a citizen of the United States by illegally entering our country.
Can't do it.
Pretty clear.
It's rather straightforward on that one.
He said that there will be no amnesty.
I don't think between now and Election Day, you're going to see Trump waiver on this one.
That would be a tough one to pull off.
And in fact, the way that this was all set up, it sort of encouraged many in the media to be drawn out to prepare the narrative of Trump who built an entire candidacy on how the GOP has sold out its base time and again.
That's the center of this, that it's rigged and that you've got these party establishment elites and they don't really care about conservatism.
They wave around the Constitution sometimes and they pretend, but they're really just going to sell you out, especially on the issue of immigration, where donors and the people who write big checks to politicians are not in line with the rest of the Republican Party.
They're much more pro-open borders, much more pro-amnesty than the GOP rank and file, than the much-forgotten, or at least much-abused Republican base.
So the narrative was going to be that Trump sold Trump, who said that the base has been sold out, vote for me, sold out the base on immigration.
That is not what happened at this speech yesterday.
Not at all.
In fact, this was as muscular, as intense, and as stalwart an enforcement-first immigration policy speech as I think he could have given, and he gave it.
And I remember yesterday, even some of the media talking ahead saying, well, the visit to Mexico, it's going to conflate with this other thing, and he's taking away from his own.
Oh, no.
Oh, no, it was perfect.
Stagecraft.
It was all planned so very, very well.
He meets with the president of Mexico, and then, guess what?
Finds himself giving a speech the same day in which he talks about how he's going to, and I want to make sure I get the quote right here: on day one, we will begin working on an impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful southern border wall, and yes, Mexico will pay for it.
That's what he said.
He promised that that's what he was going to do on day one.
A great wall, as he calls it.
I don't know if it just is a reference to how awesome it will be or if he's making some sort of historical allusion to previous great walls.
But nonetheless, he says there will be a physical barrier built.
He also talked about e-verify and about interior enforcement, dealing with many of the naysayers who have been constantly complaining about Trump's lack of specifics on policy.
There were a lot of specifics in this policy speech last night.
I watched it twice, of course, when it was happening, and then went back again to make sure I could try to get through.
And we could honestly spend the entirety of the show today.
Well, we'll spend a good portion of it just talking about all the different policy points that Trump had in here.
Yeah, on foreign policy, and I'm kind of a foreign policy guy by trade.
You know, it's a little more gut instinct with Trump.
And does he say some things where I have to sort of stroke my little faux beard here from two days of not shaving and think to myself, yeah, no, I can't.
I know, I look like a kid who's trying to buy beer.
But still, do I think that Trump gets the foreign policy nuance?
No, no, I don't.
Do I think that he doesn't like our enemies and has a pretty clear sense of American greatness?
Do I think he embraces American exceptionalism?
Sure, but that's foreign policy.
That's a discussion for another day.
On immigration, we know where he stands.
And he made it very clear by going point by point through each major aspect of the immigration discussion.
First, of course, saying no amnesty.
He said that there will be a great wall built on our southern border.
He said Mexico will pay for it.
Of course, President Peña Nieto says that that will not happen, although it did come up in the discussions with the Mexican president.
He made some other lighter remarks.
I think he even might have mentioned that he wondered if his opponent would be deported, Hillary Clinton.
Media obviously did not like that one very much at all.
But he talked about sanctuary cities, and he talked about Border Patrol doing their jobs.
You know, sanctuary cities is one of the areas, I have to say, of all of the immigration, of all the sort of sub-debates that you can have about immigration, the notion that municipalities, and there are hundreds of them, that cities can decide to violate federal law or to collude to violate federal law because they feel like it.
And somehow this is acceptable.
I mean, imagine what would happen if Dallas, Texas decided, you know what, no more federal, we're just not going to do that whole federal income tax thing here.
We're going to declare it a federal income tax haven.
First of all, it'd be great for business in Dallas.
But the IRS would come and find everyone there, or it depends on how many of them there were, I guess.
And the government wouldn't stand for it for a second, right?
Because when it comes to government revenue, when it comes to Uncle Sam taking money out of your wallet, very effective at that, and you're never going to get away with just declaring yourself exempt.
But with sanctuary cities, they'd say that they're not going to help out federal law enforcement.
That federal law all of a sudden doesn't really apply.
And we're supposed to think this is acceptable.
Compare that, if you will, to the Obama administration's response to transgender bathroom usage in the state of North Carolina.
Their first, or maybe it was South Carolina, their first instinct was to threaten to pull federal funding for schools on an issue that affects far fewer people, as infinitesimal in the impact it has on our society in comparison to illegal immigration.
And what's one of the first things the feds do?
Use the power of the purse right away, or at least threaten to do so.
But with sanctuary cities, it's unthinkable.
How could anybody ever imagine this?
I was even seeing some of my fellow beloved conservatives last night on social media mocking the idea that we should have an immigration system that picks and chooses people who are most able to be effective here.
To choose immigrants based on merit, merit, skills, and proficiency.
Doesn't that sound nice?
First of all, theoretically, we already have an immigration system that's supposed to be doing that in some cases on some levels.
H-1B visas are supposed to do this.
They don't.
They're really a means for corporations to lock immigrants into, or really visitors, not even immigrants, lock people into positions that they have great difficulty leaving from, and therefore they have less bargaining power.
They can be paid less.
They can't go anywhere.
It's supposed to be for special skills for jobs Americans can't be found to do.
Well, Americans that have the ability to go look for higher wages at other jobs won't necessarily do the jobs at H-1B visa.
But that's just one subset of it.
But I was seeing last night, other conservatives who, yeah, I know, look, there's this, there's a Trump derangement syndrome that is seeping into the minds of some who even agree with them on some stuff.
They still, even when they agree with them, they hate him.
Right?
I tell you what I think Trump is wrong.
I tell you what I think Trump is right.
Many of you may know this already.
I was an open Ted Cruz supporter during the primary, but never Hillary, everybody.
It's where I am.
It's where I've been for months and months.
And I refuse to do the enemy's work by talking about how Trump is bad on this or Trump is bad on that, only as a means of trying to help steer the party or help steer Trump in the right direction, not as a means of denigrating the nominee.
That's my approach.
Everyone's entitled to their own thoughts, feelings, all the rest on it.
On immigration, though, I think Trump has finally clarified for any of the doubters out there where he stands.
And also, I think he has seized this moment to show that he is much closer to where a majority of the Republican Party, I mean, the people, the voters, not the pundits, not the people who write articles for places, not people like me who like to go around yapping their mouths, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Look at what I know about this or that.
No, no, I just mean people.
They would like secure borders.
They would like enforcement.
They would like the magnet to be turned, the jobs magnet to be turned off.
They would like safer streets.
They would like illegal alien criminals to be deported.
They would like to be told that government terminology like illegal alien isn't something that they are now banned from saying.
It's official government terminology.
You're banned from saying it.
I was seeing this last night.
People were upset because of Trump's comments about how we're going to try to find those based on merit, skill, and proficiency.
Canada has a point system?
Are they just all a bunch of racists?
No, we all love Canada.
Very nice people.
Other countries get to have borders and enforce them.
They get to lock people up who violate their immigration laws.
Mexico is one of them, by the way.
Ask anybody from Guatemala who tries to illegally cross into Mexico or tries to work and stay there.
Ask anybody from Guatemala what it's like to try to influence Mexican politics in favor.
I mean, they would laugh.
They'd say, you've got to be kidding me.
But no, in this country, it makes us racist.
In this country, you have all the major newspapers trying to pull apart everything that Donald Trump says.
Get down into the weeds, into the details, find some way that somehow this won't work.
And you know what they offer you on the other side?
You know what the Democrats ultimately give you in place of this Trump speech?
A permanent Democrat voting majority.
That's number one, the most important thing to them, but also endless cycles of amnesty, de facto open border status, and a global cosmopolitanism that has completely overtaken the political ideology of this country, which means that guess what?
You're no more important to the United States government than anybody else from anywhere else because they have the right to come here.
And even if they've never been a day in their life in this country, they're just as American as you.
They just don't know it yet.
Buck Sexton in for Rush Limbaugh.
We'll be right back.
Buck Sexton here in for Rush, a big, beautiful, amazing, impenetrable, undeniable, indefatigable.
I'm running out of adjectives.
The border wall is supposed to be incredible.
It's supposed to be like the best border wall ever.
It's going to be golden crusted.
It's going to be special membership for different tiers within the.
No.
So he's going to build this wall.
Let's hear what he had to say about it, actually.
He said amazing stuff.
Go.
We will build a great wall along the southern border.
I know.
Everyone got really fired up at this point.
I think this was probably the applause line.
This and Amnesty were the two biggest applause lines of the whole night.
And wow, this crowd was fired up.
I mean, I was waiting for Trump to be like, are you not entertained?
Are you not entertained?
Awesome seeing from Gladiator Dana.
It was kind of like that.
In fact, I think that Trump kind of takes some of his cues for Maximus.
He's about to lay it down again.
He's just loving this.
I also like when he starts clapping for himself a little bit.
Mexico will pay for the wall.
He said it.
Mexico's going to pay for that wall.
I mean, this is 100%.
100%.
I don't think.
I think he might be wrong on that one, but let's not.
Let's not worry about it.
And they're great people and great leaders, but they're going to pay for the wall.
Great people, great leaders, going to pay for the wall.
Some of the Mexican former or some Mexican leaders, past and present, not so excited about Trump.
You had Felipe Calderón saying he joined a chorus, according to the Daily Beast here, of former Mexican presidents in condemning Donald Trump and his visit to the country.
Despite that you were invited, you aren't welcome, Calderon tweeted.
It's amazing.
Now, heads of state can just, their press office is really just being condensed into a Twitter account.
I mean, Donald's an innovator there.
You got to give him credit for that.
You know, now I think there was a time when everyone just sort of assumed that there was a staff that would do all the tweeting.
But when you look at Donald's tweets, you're like, no, I think he actually wrote that one.
I think he, I think he, unless there's sort of like a mad libs that he gives staff where at the end, they have to write things like SAD or, you know, Crooked Hillary or any number of fun things like that.
We're going to be talking about this for a bit today on the show.
It's a huge moment of the campaign.
I think you're going to see some movement in the polls as a result of this, too.
I do think you, no matter what you think of Trump as a means of media manipulation late in the summer, I mean, the very end of summer, September 1st, here we are.
We're coming up on Labor Day because apparently we like to celebrate a little socialism in this country.
Anyway, yeah, the history of Labor Day.
We could get into that another time.
But Trump was amazing what he was able to pull off here, get so much media attention.
While many of the drive-by types are on the vineyard or Nantucket, I'd like to pick on those two places.
They're actually quite lovely.
We're also going to talk about some latest Clinton Foundation business stuff.
We've got the Iran nuke deal, a little more fallout from that.
All kinds of fascinating subjects we'll be hitting throughout the show today.
But I want to take a lot of calls.
So we're going to be doing calls coming up here in just a few minutes.
If you're hitting a busy signal, just you'll hear as we get through them.
There'll be spots opening up.
The number, take it down, 800-282-2882.
Buck Sexton in for Rush Limbaugh having way too much fun today.
I'll be right back.
The Buck is back here on the EIB, 800-282-2882.
We got Andrew in Aurora, Colorado.
What's up, Andrew?
Hey, Buck.
As a fourth-generation Mexican-American, Trump speech last night was spot on.
And as far as the wall is concerned, Mexico will build it if we include an economic wall, that there be a fee on everybody that travels to Mexico, that there be fees on all the money transferred to Mexico, Western Union through the banks to get their attention because it's the law of diminishing return.
Once we have a two-way conversation instead of a one-way conversation, they have vested interests in building that wall because their economy is all based on American money going there.
Well, I think one of Trump's main points, and on this he is correct, is that we should be, we are the senior partner in this relationship, right?
It is a partnership with Mexico.
We want positive relations with Mexico.
We want strong economic ties, and we do want legal immigrants from Mexico, all of that.
But when we approach these things, when we say it should be a certain way, there are levers we have to try to induce them to come along with us.
I mean, you look at the kind of polar opposite approach that, for example, even taking it away from the issue of Mexico for a second, the Obama administration in negotiating the Iran deal, they show up at the card table and they've got a winning hand, and they're like, okay, well, what can we do here to I'll do anything?
Here are my cards.
Yeah, they fold.
They fold right away.
And they give the other side exactly what they want because they're so desperate to get a deal done.
So, look, I think that when you're talking about the costs of this, by the way, Trump has said, I think, $5 billion.
I've seen estimates from sort of less favorable estimates to finish the fence.
Well, we've got about 1,950 miles total on the U.S.-Mexico border, and some of it's already fenced.
Estimates of $5, $10 billion, let's even say it's $15 billion.
I mean, the estimates on what high-speed rail in California will cost is that's at $60 billion.
And you can make a whole, you know, where is that going and what will the cost overruns be?
And how much would that even benefit?
Look at the Acelo in the Northeastern corridor here has to be subsidized and it's not used by as many people as they thought it would, and the tracks aren't big enough, and all kinds of problems.
Point here I'm making is that we're not even talking about that much money either way.
And I feel like every time I go to a foreign country, there's like visa fees.
The government puts fees on everything.
But if you bring up fees vis-a-vis Mexico to pay for a wall, now you're starting a trade war and all heck is going to break loose.
It just doesn't seem to add up to me, Andrew.
Well, what do we have to lose?
It doesn't cost Americans anything if they're allowed to go, but there's a fee.
And it will get Mexico's attention to close the border on their end because they don't have any incentive to close the border on their end.
They're not participating.
So we're Americans.
We're standing in a strong Wyoming wind facing the wind, urinating ourselves.
Oh, well.
Okay.
Thanks, Henry.
Thanks.
Thanks, Andrew.
It's quite a visual.
It's a good thing.
Even on radio sometimes.
My gosh, good heavens.
Let's take Al down in Texas.
What's up, Al?
Hey, Mr. Six.
Great to be on there with you, sir.
Thank you very much, sir.
That's a great job for Mr. Limbaugh in his absence.
Thank you.
And U.S. Army Ford Observer dittos to everybody at EIB.
Absolutely.
Thank you.
Hey, sir.
Yesterday, listening to Mr. Trump's early speech where he was speaking in Mexico with the president of Mexico, the thing that really blew me away there was Mr. Trump hit on the NAFTA agreement, and he said that it needed to be renegotiated.
And then later on in the day, I saw press reports that the president of Mexico was agreeing with him that, hey, yeah, we can sit down and look at redoing this to make it better.
And then also the president of Mexico, he said that guns coming across the border were a big problem for them.
And Mr. Trump pointed out that, hey, this is going to be border security is going to be a good thing for both countries.
That's something that I didn't expect to hear from him.
And I don't think many people did.
And I think it was a really important moment yesterday.
And he had a really good day yesterday.
Look, I think that from the optics side of things, going to Mexico, meeting with the president of Mexico, and then giving this speech, it was win-win-win all the way around, certainly for Trump supporters and Trump's base.
And also from the perspective of media attention, I mean, look, I was thinking about this because I came in here to sit in on the EIB this week, and I was thinking, you know, maybe we'll just sort of sit around and shoot the stuff about whatever because it's going to be a really slow time in the news cycle, but it hasn't been at all.
Trump realizes, no, it's only slow if you let it be slow.
And now he's got the entire country focused in on his core signature issue.
He gave them a massive headfake.
I mean, I played basketball when I was a little kid, and we would have said that there were broken ankles after this one.
I mean, people, you know, I smell burnt toast.
I mean, people were absolutely left on their butts when Trump took it in the other direction with this headfake.
And I think that it was a good day for him.
And the naysayers have, well, now they're just doubling down on the hatred and xenophobia and hatred of Trump, saying that Trump is hateful, saying that it's all xenophobic.
And I go through his policy proposals.
I look at them like, what exactly, what about deporting illegal alien criminals day one is hateful.
That's existing U.S. federal law.
I mean, Al, this is what I always say about Hillary Clinton.
She can't have it both ways.
She can't say we're going to uphold the rule of law, but we're also going to ignore the law.
This is nonsense from her.
And this is what the Democrats offer.
They kind of make these gestures towards rule of law.
But then when you say, okay, so let's actually enforce the law, they go, whoa, hold on.
The law is racist.
You know what I'm saying?
Well, sir, thank you for your service and thank you for calling in.
I appreciate getting a chance to chat with you on the air here.
I love this.
I've got listeners fired up.
Everybody wants to talk about the Trump speech.
Trump's got everybody fired up one way or the other.
There's got to be a Trump hater in here somewhere who wants to call in and tell me how this is all terrible and Trump is the worst and he's going to be a fascist.
And I actually met him growing up.
He's a nice guy.
Richard in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
You're speaking to Buck.
How are you doing, sir?
Good, sir.
How are you?
Good.
I was talking to a professional who's an immigrant from Costa Rica yesterday, who's a Trump supporter, agrees with him on immigration.
We need to build a wall and stop illegal immigration.
But what we also talked about was how hard it was for him to get to this country and how expensive it was.
And I think that's one thing.
When Trump's talking about overhauling the immigration system, I think he's missing that, that if he wants to reach out and court the Hispanic vote, he needs to be talking about how he's going to streamline the process to get good people up into this country.
Because the only person that's benefiting right now from immigration is the immigration attorneys.
I'm an attorney, and I know how hard it is to try and work through the system on this stuff.
Okay, and it's costly.
People spend, I know people, I have friends who have been immigrants trying to come here legally, and some of them managed to finally get their green card, and it's thousands of dollars.
I mean, if you are a highly skilled, highly educated immigrant from Mumbai, from London, from Tokyo, from you name it, and you're trying to go through the system legally, there are all of these hurdles in your way, all these barriers.
You make any mistake.
I mean, you're a lawyer, you know, Richard.
You make a mistake in the process.
You overstay.
You know, if you overstay a visa and you're generally trying to do everything right, but you mess up along the way, you know, then you're done, right?
And now all of a sudden you can't come back.
And so the people who are inside the system can actually be punished.
If you stay entirely external to the immigration system, well, then you're just, you know, quote, in the shadows.
But as we all know, in the shadows can mean, you know, an invitation to the State of the Union address and a standing ovation from the Democrats.
So it's not exactly in the shadows.
But that's, but I think, but I think Trump's, where I think Trump really needs to hit home to soften it and talk about everything that he's doing is the system needs to be overhauled.
And he says that a lot, but he needs to hit home how he's going to overhaul the legal process.
But doesn't he have to, doesn't he have to deal with the illegal part of the process first?
Isn't that a fair?
I mean, you know, look, deportations, and this was left sort of open in a sense, right?
He said, illegal alien criminals are being deported.
He says, day one, hour one.
Look, it's going to take more time than that.
But, you know, he's trying to get a crowd fired up, right?
I'll give him a little bit of a poetic license on how quickly this is going to happen.
But deportations, eventually, he'll handle, as he says, you know, people might have to leave the country, come back, but maybe they'll have streamlined exactly what you're talking about.
They'll have streamlined the process.
So good people who have proven work record in the United States, who haven't broken any laws, who then try to come back through the system legally, it will be easier for them.
But you got to deal with the illegality first because it all gets mixed up together and causes, you know, so I do think that steps in the process are necessary, right?
The Democrats want comprehensive because they want it all at once.
Because when it's all at once, what it means is you get amnesty day one and then everything else is negotiable.
We learned this lesson with Reagan.
Reagan himself was like, yeah, we got swindled on this.
Because all the stuff that they said they were going to do with the 3 million or so that got amnesty, it never actually had.
There was no enforcement.
There was no back taxes.
There's none of the stuff that was promised to happen happen, except the amnesty.
And then, of course, you've got over 10 million more have come since that amnesty.
But Richard, I hear you on the making the sort of the positive case.
I mean, I think Marco Rubio was doing a good job of that in the primary.
I think there were others.
I think Ted Cruz, I mean, it was interesting to me that you had two sons of Cuban immigrants as frontrunners.
Trump was obviously the frontrunner, but as possible presidential candidates for the Republican Party.
And they made good cases about that.
But we'll have to look and see what goes on.
But Richard, thank you very much for calling in.
Appreciate it.
I think I got to go into a break, don't I?
Uh-oh, running long here.
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I love these Make Mexico great again, also hats, by the way.
You see this?
This was incredible.
Those are definitely going to be collectors' items.
Make Mexico great again, also.
Think of all the other countries I could get on this as well.
See?
It's very, Trump hats, very inclusive.
There's a lot you can do with them.
Make Mexico great again also.
Rudy Giuliani was wearing one of those.
It's pretty funny.
When I first saw it, I saw it on Twitter and I thought to myself, that's not a real thing.
It is a real thing.
They have made these hats.
Make Mexico great again, also.
I love it.
Adeline in East Texas, what's up?
Thanks for calling in.
Yeah, thanks for taking my call.
I'm really looking forward to bring up some points with you.
There's two things that I wanted to explain.
First, I'm a legal immigrant.
I came here legally eight years ago and I spent thousands of dollars to do things the right way.
And I'm now a proud U.S. citizen.
I'm voting Trump in November.
And let me tell you, I am not the only legal immigrant that I know who is sick and tired of the government bending the vote backward for illegal immigrants who don't respect our laws and expect us to cater to every need and service in Spanish.
You come to a country legally, you respect their law, and you learn their language.
That's my first point.
The second one, I'm from France.
And so, as you know, it's a pretty leftist country.
And let me tell you, and I want the listeners to know, people over there are astonished over this voter ID debate.
It would not even come to their mind not to verify somebody's identity when they go to vote.
So if you know some Democrats around you, maybe you want to educate them a little bit and let them know that every democracy around the world expects people to prove who they are when they do something as important as voting and maybe to start bringing the race card and just respect the laws, period.
Yeah, Adeline, what would happen if someone from the U.S. just showed up in France and said, I demand to be made a citizen and given the right to vote?
It would have a hard time because we don't offer services in English to start with.
So you would have to learn French to be able to say that.
And then that would just not happen, period.
Yeah, my understanding is I know Americans that even want to just go and work in France for the summer and they can't even get a work visa on a temporary basis.
It's very difficult.
And I lived in Canada for a year.
I consider immigrating over there.
And what you mentioned earlier was right, they have a point system.
And they are never pointed out as racist people.
So how come in the U.S., you can't expect people to just follow simple laws and respect immigration without being called racist?
That's ridiculous.
So you know about that.
I mentioned the point system earlier in the program in Canada.
You actually know about this.
I mean, you've dealt with the point system.
I do.
I lived there for a year.
And yeah, I mean, that's just the way it is.
They don't just take anybody to really choose their immigrants.
And when you cross between the U.S. and Canada, they check your identity.
They're really serious about it.
They question you.
Yeah.
Well, why can't we do that with our southern border?
It doesn't make any sense to me.
Everybody else gets to enforce borders and have immigration laws in the world, except for America.
Our laws are just kind of up for constant political debate and bending and breaking.
But Adeline, Merci Bo Cule, abiento.
Thank you very much for calling in.
Good to talk to you.
Appreciate it.
Who else do we have here?
Elizabeth in Fort Lauderdale.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
You're speaking to Buck.
Hey, Shields High, Buck.
Oh, Shields High.
Somebody from TM Buck.
Good to hear you.
Oh, yes.
Team Buck and definitely Blaze supporter.
All right.
Thank you.
Mention you at 7 o'clock on TV.
Listen, regarding this wall, you know, everybody's wall, wall, wall happy.
Excuse me, but I once heard Dana actually come up with a brilliant idea.
We've got a lot of Americans out of work.
Why don't we take all these drones that are watching us, law-abiding citizens, put them along our borders, and unemployed Americans can look on the internet and get bounty money for turning in people coming across the border?
Well, you also would, of course, need people on the ground that would go and do the enforcement, but I think they are there.
You can pick them up.
You know, that goes with the border guards.
And everybody talks about revamping our immigration laws.
No, all we need to do is enforce our immigration laws, just the way your last caller was 100% right.
If I go into Mexico, I go to jail the same way Sergeant Andrew Tamarisi did.
Yeah, no, well, he had, of course, I followed the Tamarisi case closely.
He had guns in the trunk, which was the unfortunate.
That was a.
It was a wrong turn, and he was calling for.
Oh, no, no.
I was all, look, I was in the free Tamarisi.
I was trying to be at the front of the free Tamarisi parade.
I'm just saying they were holding him also for firearms at the time.
But, you know, look, the Democrats love talking about infrastructure.
And I mentioned the $60 billion they want for the rail system, high-speed rail in California, because they want their version of the Acela, which is what connects Boston to D.C. So the sort of coastal elites will have their high-speed trains, and the rest of the country gets like slow, rickety trains from the 70s.
But infrastructure spending is great.
Let's hire all these people to build walls or ditches, dig ditches, do whatever they have to do, unless it's the southern border.
Then all of a sudden, infrastructure is bad.
But Elizabeth, thank you for calling in from Florida.
Good to talk to you.
And I got to go into a break.
Give me a few.
We'll be back.
Buck Sexton here, Infor Rush.
I've been so on fire, in Fuego, you could say, about the speech that I didn't even get to the hair on fire response from the left on this issue.
I mean, they're saying that this is like the end of this is the end of the world as we know it, and they do not feel fine.
They're very upset about this.
Hillary Clinton upset about this.
She had some snarky comments via Twitter on both the visit to Mexico as well as, I believe, on the Trump speech specifically.
I want to talk to you a bit about some of that reaction, what it tells us about how they, meaning the left, the Dems, view the immigration issue overall, where they really come from on this.
And let's just take a moment because, you know, Trump went point by point through his immigration proposal last night.
We hit the main aspects of it here.
A lot of it's based on enforcement of existing laws.
Some of it's additional resources to enforce those laws, and a promise that there will be no blanket amnesty.
Let's talk about what Hillary offers on the other side.
You can look on her website.
I'll do that with you.
We'll just go through a few of them.
We'll do a little Washington Post-style fact check, and we'll see how many Pinocchios we give Hillary.
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