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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 247 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 would like to get in a whole bunch of calls today.
Lines are open.
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The media was ready to pounce.
They were about you could tell this was the situation 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.
It 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.
One of 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.
Uh 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 my cool hat, you can still buy it in stores.
You know, 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 a s rather straightforward on that one.
He said that there will be no amnesty.
I I don't think between now and election day, you're going to see Trump waver 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 a that it's rigged and that you've got these party establishment elites and they don't really care about conservatism.
Yeah, 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, then the much forgotten, or at least uh 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 uh as as muscular as intense and as stalwart and 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 heads saying, well, the visit to Mexico, it's 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 him.
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 uh little faux beard here from two days of not shaving and think to myself, yeah, no, I'm I can't.
I know I look like a kid who's trying to buy beer.
Um 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, versus, 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 light uh 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 uh of all of 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 uh, you know, if if Dallas, Texas decided, you know what, no more federal we're just not gonna do that whole federal income tax thing here.
We're gonna 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 uh 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 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.
Skill 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.
H1B visas are supposed to do this.
They don't.
They're really a means for corporations to uh 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 H1PVs.
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 a Trump derangement syndrome that is seeping into the minds of some who even agree with him on some stuff.
They still, even when they agree with them, they hate them.
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, the I mean the people, the voters, not the pundits, not the people who write articles for places, not people like me.
Like to go around yapping their mouths, blah blah de 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 gonna 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.
Um I'm running out of adjectives.
The border wall, supposed to be incredible.
It's supposed to be like the best border wall ever.
It's gonna be gold encrusted.
It's gonna be special membership for different tiers within the No.
So he's gonna 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, 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.
Uh and wow, this this crowd was fired up.
I mean, I was waiting for Trump to be like, are you not entertained?
Are you not entertained?
Awesome scene from Gladiator, by the way.
It was kind of like that.
In fact, I think that Trump kind of takes some of his cues from Maximus.
Oh, he's about to, 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 gonna 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 that.
But yet, but they're gonna pay for the wall.
And they're great people and great leaders, but they're gonna pay for the wall.
Great people, great leaders gonna pay for the wall.
Some of the Mexican uh former or some Mexican leaders uh past and present, not so excited about Trump.
You had uh Felipe Calderon saying uh 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.
Is that now heads of state can just they their press office is really just being condensed into a Twitter account.
I mean, Donald's an innovator there.
You gotta 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 I think he I think he unless they're 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.
Um we're gonna be talking about this for a bit today on the show.
It's a huge moment of the campaign.
I think you're gonna see some movement in the polls as a result of this too.
I 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.
Um, but uh Trump was uh it was amazing what he was able to pull off here, get so much media attention while many of the uh the drive by types are uh on the vineyard or Nantucket.
I like to pick on those two places.
They're actually quite lovely.
We're also gonna talk about some uh latest Clinton Foundation business stuff.
We've got the Iran nuke deal, a little more fall out from that.
All kinds of fascinating subjects we'll be hitting throughout the show today.
But I w I want to take a lot of calls, so we're gonna 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 opening up.
The number, take it down, eight hundred two eight two eight eight two.
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, eight hundred two eight two two eight eighty two.
We got Andrew in Aurora, Colorado.
What's up, Andrew?
Hey, Buck.
Uh uh, as a fourth generation Mexican American, Trump's speech last night was spot on.
And as far as the wall's 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 once we have a two-way conversation instead of a one-way conversation, they have vested interest 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 uh and on this he 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 m uh with Mexico.
We want uh strong economic ties and and we do want legal immigrants from Mexico and we we all of that.
But when we approach these things, when when we say it should be a certain way, uh there are levers we have to try to induce them to come along with us.
I mean, you sort you look at the kind of polar opposite approach uh that for example, uh even taking it away from uh uh issue of Mexico for a second, the Obama administration and negotiating the Iran deal, they show up at the at the card table and they've got a winning hand, and they're like, okay, well what what what can we do here to and I'll I'll do anything.
Here are my cards, you know.
Yeah, they fold.
They fall they fold right away.
Um and and they give the other side exactly what they want because they're so desperate to uh to get a deal done.
So look, I I think that uh w when you're talking about the cost of this, by the way.
You know, Trump has said I think five billion.
I've seen estimates from sort of less f less favorable estimates to finish the the fence.
What we got about nineteen hundred fifty miles total on the US Mexico border, and some of it's already fenced.
You know, estimates of five, ten billion, let's even say it's fifteen billion.
I mean, the the estimates on what high speed rail in California will cost is that's at sixty billion.
Uh and 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 Acello 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, and 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 gonna break loose.
It just doesn't seem to add up to me, Andrew.
Well, uh what do we have to lose?
It doesn't cost Americans anything if uh 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.
Hmm.
Okay.
Thanks, and thanks, thanks, Andrew.
It's quite a quite a visual.
It's a good thing, yeah.
Eve even on radio sometimes.
My gosh, good heavens.
Uh let's take uh Al down in Texas.
What's up, Al?
Hey, Mr. Six, and great to be in there with you, sir.
Thank you very much, sir.
Great job uh for Mr. Limbaugh in his absence.
Thank you.
And U.S. Army Ford Observer ditto to everybody at E. Absolutely, thank you.
Hey, sir, yesterday listening to Mr. Trump's uh the early speech that where he was speaking in Mexico with the President of Mexico.
The thing that really blew me away there was uh 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 and look at redoing this to make it better.
And then also the President of Mexico, he said that uh guns coming across the border were a big problem for them, and Mr. Trump pointed out that hey, this is gonna be border security is gonna 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 I think that the uh from a from the optic 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 I was thinking about this because I I came in here to to sit in on the EIB this week and I was thinking, you know, maybe we'll just uh sort of sit around and you know, shoot the stuff about whatever, because it's gonna be a really slow time in in the news cycle, but it hasn't been at all.
Trump realizes no, it 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 head fake.
I mean, you know, I 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 uh, you know, left on their butts when Trump took it in the other direction uh with this head fake.
And and I think that it w 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 and look at them like what exactly w what about deporting illegal alien criminals day one is hateful.
That's existing U.S. federal law.
I mean, uh Al this is what I always say about Hillary Clinton.
She can't have it both ways.
She can't say we're gonna uphold the rule of law, but we're also gonna ignore the law.
The th this is 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 laws of racist.
You know what I'm saying now.
Well, sir, thank you for your service and thank you for calling in.
I appreciate uh getting a uh chance to uh to chat with you on the air here.
I love this.
I got listeners fired up.
Everybody wants to talk about the Trump speech.
Trump's got everybody fired up one way or the other.
Well, I guess we should have a tr there's gotta be a Trump hater in here somewhere that wants to call in and tell me how this is all terrible and Trump is the worst and he's gonna be a fascist and I actually met him growing up.
He's a nice guy.
Richard in uh Vicksburg, Mississippi.
You're on the uh 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 gonna 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.
Uh people spend I know people.
I have friends who have who have been immigrants trying to come here legally, and some of them managed to finally get their green card and it's and it's thousands of dollars.
I mean, if you are a highly skilled uh you know, highly educated immigrant from from Mumbai, from London, from Tokyo, from you name it, and you're trying to go through the system legally, there are all these 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.
Uh you know, if you overstay a visa and you're generally trying to do everything right, but but you mess up along the way, or you know, then you're done, right?
And now 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 in t 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 what I think Trump's where I think Trump really needs to hit at 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 at home how he's gonna 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 I you know th look deportations and this was left sort of uh open in a sense, right?
He he said look d i illegal alien criminals are being deported, he says day one, hour one.
Look, it's gonna take more time than that.
But you know, he's trying to get a crowd fired up, right?
A little I'll give him a little bit of uh poetic license on how quickly this is gonna happen.
But deportations eventually uh he'll handle as he says, you know, people might have to leave the country, come back, but maybe they'll uh 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, uh it will be easier for them, but you gotta deal with the illegality first because it all gets uh mixed up together and causes you know, so I do think that steps in the process are necessary, right?
That's you know, 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 we got swindled on this.
Because all the stuff that they said they were gonna do with the three million or so that got amnesty, you know, it it never actually had there was no enforcement, there was no back taxes, there's no n none of the stuff that was promised to happen happened except the amnesty.
And then of course you've got uh, you know, over ten million more have come since that amnesty.
So But Rick Richard, I I hear you on on the making the 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 as I think Ted Cruz, I mean it was interesting to me that you had two sons of uh Cuban immigrants at as as front runners, or not v you know, Trump was obviously the front runner, but as uh 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 gotta go into a break, don't I?
Uh oh, running long here.
800 282 2882, Buck Sexton in for Rush Limbaugh, and we'll be back in just a few.
Buck Sexton here, InfoRush.
Thank you so much for joining.
Phone lines open eight hundred two eight two two eight eighty two.
I love these make Mexico great again also hats, by the way.
You see this?
This was incredible.
I mean, those are definitely gonna be collectors items.
Make Mexico great again also.
Think of all the other countries I could get out on this as well.
See?
It's very uh tr Trump hats very inclusive.
There's a lot you can do with them.
Uh make Mexico great again also.
Rudy Giuliani was wearing one of those.
It's pretty funny.
I when I first saw uh I saw it on uh 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.
Uh Adeline in East Texas.
What's up?
Thanks for calling in.
Yeah, I think so.
Taking my call.
I'm really looking forward to bring up some points with you.
Uh there's two things that I wanted to explain.
Uh first, I'm a legal immigrant.
I came here legally eight years ago and I spent thousands of dollars to make the to do things the right way.
And uh I'm not 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 banning over backward for illegal immigrants who don't respect our laws and expect us to counter the every need and serve in Spanish.
You come to a country legally, you respect their law and you learn their language.
That's my first point.
Um 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 those nurse 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 expect people to prove who they are when they do something as important than voting.
And maybe to start bringing the race card and just respect the lowest period.
Yeah, Adaline, what would happen if if someone from the US just showed up in France and said I demand to be made a citizen and given the right to vote?
So it would have to learn France to be able to say that.
And then that would just not happen.
Yeah, my understanding is it's I I know Americans that even want to just go and work in France for the summer and they c they can't find 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 considered immigrating over there.
And what you mentioned earlier was, right, they have a point system.
And they were 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 as we did for a year?
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 points.
And yeah, I mean that's just the way it is.
They don't just take anybody.
Yeah.
They truly 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.
Why can't we do that with our southern border?
It doesn't make any sense to me.
Everybody everybody else gets to enforce borders and have immigration laws in the world, except for uh except for America.
Our laws are just kind of up for uh constant political debate and and bending and breaking.
But uh Adeline, merci beaucoup.
Thank you very much for calling in.
Good to talk to you.
Uh appreciate it.
Uh who else do we have here?
Uh Elizabeth in Fort Lauderdale.
You're on the bu uh you're on the Rush Lumball show.
You're speaking to Buck.
Hey, Shields High, Buck.
Oh, Shields High, somebody from TM Buck.
Good to hear from you.
Oh yes, team Buck and definitely Blaise Supporter.
All right.
Um 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.
Well, they would go 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 I filed the Tem Russian case closely.
He had guns in the trunk, which was the unf yeah, that was a a It was a wrong turn and he was calling for the Oh no no, I was all look, I was I was in the free Tamarisi.
I was I was trying to be at the front of the free to Emrecy Parade.
I'm just saying they were holding them also for uh for firearms at the time.
Um but uh you know look th the Democrats love talking about infrastructure and I I mentioned the sixty billion dollars they want for the rail system, high speed rail in California because they want their version of the Acello, which is what connects Boston to DC, 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 seventies.
Um but uh infrastructure spending is great.
Let's hire all these people to do to to build walls or ditches, uh dig ditches, do whatever they have to do, unless it's the southern border, then all of a sudden infrastructure's bad.
But Elizabeth, thank you for calling in from uh 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 in for rush.
I've been so uh on fire in fuego, you could say about the uh the speech that I didn't even get to the hair on fire response from the uh the left on this issue.
I mean, they are 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.
Um they're very upset about this.
Hillary Clinton upset about this.
She had some snarky comments via Twitter uh 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.
Uh a lot of a lot of it's based on enforcement of existing laws.
Some of it's additional resources to enforce those laws, but a and a a promise that there will be no blanket amnesty.
Let's talk about what Hil 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.
Here's a clue.
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