RUSH: Carol in Omaha, you're next on the EIB Network. Hi.
CALLER: Oh, my word, Rush. I (sigh). Let me catch a breath. I am so nervous, and I told you H.R. I just wanted him to pass you a note. I guess you don't do that around there.
RUSH: No. If you call; you want to go on the air, you're on the air.
CALLER: All right. Well, my --
RUSH: I'm glad. You don't want to pass notes. I mean, this isn't junior high school.
CALLER: No, but you make me so nervous -- and I know a...

RUSH: The big news, of course, ladies and gentlemen, continues to be the battle being waged in the Senate over illegal immigration. Major, major, major progress. "Heeding conservative demands to shore up the southern US border to prevent illegal immigrants from freely crossing into the country, the Senate voted yesterday..." We got the news of this right at the end of yesterday's program. As soon as the program was over, I saw the story. They're going to build a 370-mile fence, triple layered....

RUSH: Robert Samuelson in the Washington Post yesterday actually has a number of things that are in excellent response to Mr. Brooks today in the New York Times. "Still Dodging Immigration's Truths." I don't have time in this segment to read the whole thing, but listen to just a couple sentences here. "Hardly anyone is discussing these issues candidly. It is politically inexpedient to do so. We can be a lawful society and a welcoming society simultaneously, to use the president's phrase, but...

RUSH: Carol in Omaha, you're next on the EIB Network. Hi.
CALLER: Oh, my word, Rush. I (sigh). Let me catch a breath. I am so nervous, and I told you H.R. I just wanted him to pass you a note. I guess you don't do that around there.
RUSH: No. If you call; you want to go on the air, you're on the air.
CALLER: All right. Well, my --
RUSH: I'm glad. You don't want to pass notes. I mean, this isn't junior high school.
CALLER: No, but you make me so nervous -- and I know a...

RUSH: The big news, of course, ladies and gentlemen, continues to be the battle being waged in the Senate over illegal immigration. Major, major, major progress. "Heeding conservative demands to shore up the southern US border to prevent illegal immigrants from freely crossing into the country, the Senate voted yesterday..." We got the news of this right at the end of yesterday's program. As soon as the program was over, I saw the story. They're going to build a 370-mile fence, triple layered....

RUSH: Robert Samuelson in the Washington Post yesterday actually has a number of things that are in excellent response to Mr. Brooks today in the New York Times. "Still Dodging Immigration's Truths." I don't have time in this segment to read the whole thing, but listen to just a couple sentences here. "Hardly anyone is discussing these issues candidly. It is politically inexpedient to do so. We can be a lawful society and a welcoming society simultaneously, to use the president's phrase, but...