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RUSH: Here\u2019s Mark passing through the Little Bighorn. Great to have you on the program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. Great to be here Rush. I cannot believe I\u2019m a actually getting to speak to the man himself. I am a gratified student in the Limbaugh Institute, and I want to thank you for inspiring me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You make me think more critically.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much, sir. I appreciate that. <\/p>\n

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CALLER: I\u2019ve always believed that the simplest answers in life are probably the best, and I\u2019ve never heard anyone on either side of the aisle propose something that is similar to what we had at Ellis Island in the turn of the last century. I mean, if it worked then, and if we do look back on history and say that it did work, and it did — well, it was more or less efficient, did what it was supposed to do — why are we not doing something similar and possibly in a joint venture with the Mexican government where they have screening facilities, prescreening facilities south of the border. As they come across we screen them again to find out what their goals are. You want to be a full-fledged American citizen, that\u2019s great, we\u2019d love to have you. You\u2019re gonna learn to speak English and you\u2019re gonna take the test. If you want to be a migrant worker and you want to come back every six months we\u2019ll give you the workers visa —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re asking questions that make too much sense and —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — they don\u2019t have any relationship to the legislation pending.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. And, you know, it stopped being proposed because they don\u2019t care. As long as they vote for them and keep them in office and con them into believing they actually do care. And if it ever were proposed, I believe I could hear the words coming out of the politician\u2019s mouth, “No, no, no, we can\u2019t do that.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to tell you something. You know me. I have said countless times that the Democrats want these people. They\u2019re voters. It\u2019s a permanent underclass. And you know, I\u2019ve been struggling, is there any other reason I\u2019m missing, is there some other inexplicable or unknown, unforeseen reason why the Democrats don\u2019t want any real change to this system other than legalization? They don\u2019t want any changes on the border. They don\u2019t want any added measures on legalization. <\/p>\n

What you propose is actually quite sensible. Okay, we acknowledge that people are gonna come here from Mexico, so we set up places where people in Mexico go if they want to come to the United States. And we interview them like we did at Ellis Island, “Okay, why are you here? What do you want to do? What are your objectives?” blah, blah, blah, blah. We check their health, we find out if any of them are sick and might be transporting a disease or whatever, and then we make a judgment based on policy guidelines at the moment. Instead we\u2019re talking about fences and keep \u2019em out. Deal with the 11 million that are here. Every 20 or 30 years we grant amnesty and then wait for the next big batch to accumulate and grant some more amnesty. I realize sadly how partisan it sounds to say the Democrats simply look at these people as a bunch of future voters, but they do.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Of course they do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They do. There\u2019s no question that they do. And it can be explained as logically as anything else can. The Democrats need a lot of poor people dependent on government. That\u2019s just undeniable. That\u2019s the Democrat constituency. And as — pre-Obama — as people improve themselves financially and climbed ladders of success, they became less and less dependent on government, which made them less and less dependent on Democrats. And so those people might have stopped voting Democrat, stopped being Democrat. They need to be replaced, if the Democrats are to win elections. So that\u2019s what this is. It\u2019s patently obvious. <\/p>\n

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Now, to some people that sounds so cynical and so partisan, and the Democrats couldn\u2019t possibly do that, but they do. So then when you ask a sensible question like this and balance it against what\u2019s actually happening, I don\u2019t have an answer for you. If we\u2019re serious about immigration, it makes perfect sense. Because we don\u2019t want to shut it down. We don\u2019t want to make the country impenetrable in this way. We want to welcome people who are going to enhance this nation. I don\u2019t have the answer for you other than to say that both political parties do have political objectives here that really don\u2019t have anything to do with immigration.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, am I still on?<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re still on but I\u2019m sure you don\u2019t have anything else to say, do you? You couldn\u2019t possibly, after I —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, all I had to say was when I hear talk about securing the border, I don\u2019t know what that means. I have no idea what they\u2019re talking about when they say we need a more secure border. I don\u2019t have any input from them other than we need a secure border, we need a secure border. Tell me what that means because if you\u2019re building a fence —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now, you know what that means. When people talk about securing the border, you know what that means. It means making sure that people aren\u2019t able to illegally cross it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: They\u2019re going to, though. You had a wall in Berlin with armed guards. They\u2019d risk their lives for freedom.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That was to keep people in.<\/p>\n

CALLER: They still try to get to freedom. If you\u2019ve got a fence with no armed security they\u2019re gonna cross the fence. It\u2019s just a fence. They\u2019re doing it every day with the fence that already exists. How big of a fence do you want to build? It\u2019s never gonna work.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, let me tell you something. Since you bring up the fence, the fence has already been authorized. Money has been allocated for the fence. It just hasn\u2019t been built, and I think it was either Senator Sessions or Senator Cruz, might have been Senator Paul. One of them submitted an amendment to do what was already authorized, and the amendment was voted down. But the money for the fence has already been authorized. I forget how many miles of fence has been authorized, but a very small percentage of the fence authorized has been built. So somebody submitted an amendment to finish what\u2019s already been signed into law. And that amendment failed. So the conclusion, they\u2019re not serious about this fence business. They just did that for political reasons. <\/p>\n

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Folks, look, one thing I wanted to ask Senator Cruz<\/a>, and I didn\u2019t have time, and I should have written it down, we\u2019re in this position because we never say “no” to a Democrat initiative. The Democrats want national health care. We don\u2019t say “no” and oppose it. We have to have an alternative. So they\u2019re always setting the agenda. And by virtue of that, it\u2019s always us who seem to be contrarian. We never — well, not never, but seldom do you hear of Republican initiatives. And when they do exist, they\u2019re always characterized as reactionary things. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t understand, just because the Democrats want this, why do we have to have a version of it? The Democrats want amnesty, why can\u2019t we just say “no” and fight \u2019em on that? Why do we have to, “Oh, you want amnesty? Okay, well, we don\u2019t really like the way you\u2019re gonna do it. Here, let\u2019s try it our way.” Now, in this case we say, “Well, we need outreach to the Hispanics \u2019cause they don\u2019t like us, and Rush, we just can\u2019t say ‘no\u2019 because the Hispanics will never like us. I mean, they already dislike us, then they\u2019ll hate us.”<\/p>\n

The Democrats want national health care. Why don\u2019t we just say “no?” That\u2019s the wrong thing to do. But we don\u2019t say “no.” Well, I take that back. With Hillarycare we did say “no,” and look, we won. We did say “no.” So we can do it and succeed. But in way too many instances, I don\u2019t care what it is, the Democrats decide they want something… and I guarantee you what has got the Republicans caught in the trap is this whole notion of what people are gonna think of \u2019em. They are so browbeaten by that and they so believe that Democrats are so loved, and Democrat policies are so loved, that when a Democrat supports something the Republicans better appear to be — That\u2019s what all this talk of bipartisanship is, is Republicans agreeing with Democrats. It just ticks me off, the whole thing just ticks me off when I stop and think about it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I want to answer the question about “we.” Why don\u2019t “we” say “no”? Because, you know what I really have to do? We have to define who the “we” is. So when I say the Democrats propose something, why don\u2019t “we” say “no,” well, what I\u2019m talking about is the Republicans. But the problem with that is that there is a ruling class in Washington that is made up of people in both parties, and they don\u2019t really think of themselves as Republicans or Democrats. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re identified that way for political purposes, but Washington is its own universe. So it\u2019s true that the Democrats want 46 million undocumented Democrats to come into the country, 46 million foreigners, legal immigrants, whatever, Washington wants that, the Democrats want that. So when the Democrats want it, Washington wants it, and some Republicans. This is where we get hung up on the, “Why don\u2019t we say ‘no,\u2019?” because there are people among the “we,” Republicans, who support big government. <\/p>\n

Oh, yeah. <\/p>\n

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Why do you think Tea Party candidates are opposed by the Republicans? You go back to the Christine O\u2019Donnell and Sharron Angle races in the 2010 midterms. The reason the Republicans really were worried about Christine O\u2019Donnell and Sharron Angle is they really thought they wouldn\u2019t have a chance to win. The Republicans wanted the Senate. You could hear \u2019em say they wanted to control the chairmanships in the Senate. They wanted to get the chairmanships back. <\/p>\n

There are Republicans that want to be in charge of the money, too. There are Republicans who want the power of controlling the money. And that\u2019s what winning elections in Washington means. To a lot of Republicans, it isn\u2019t about conservatism or liberalism or Democrats or Republicans. It\u2019s about having the money or not having the money. Having the power over the money, having the power to spend it for whatever things that we\u2019re trying to buy. <\/p>\n

So there are a lot of Republicans who are also part of the “we.”<\/p>\n

Democrats are some.<\/p>\n

There are some of the “we” who agree with them. <\/p>\n

So Washington wants illegal immigration? That means the Democrats want it, and some Republicans, too. Washington wants a powerful IRS. Washington wants Obamacare. Washington wants 46 million foreigners. There are a number of Republicans you know and I know that get saddled into the have to be categorized as in the “we,” and that\u2019s the problem. When I say why don\u2019t “we” say “no,” I\u2019m making a fallacious assumption that all Republicans oppose this, and they don\u2019t — and that ticks me off even more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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