{"id":214319,"date":"2016-08-29T18:52:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T22:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/08\/29\/jeffrey_lord_wants_trump_to_propose_the_limbaugh_amnesty_plan\/"},"modified":"2021-03-19T09:13:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T13:13:31","slug":"jeffrey_lord_wants_trump_to_propose_the_limbaugh_amnesty_plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/08\/29\/jeffrey_lord_wants_trump_to_propose_the_limbaugh_amnesty_plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Lord Wants Trump to Propose the Limbaugh Amnesty Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"
RUSH: Last night Jeff Lord is on with Jim Sciutto, and they are discussing one of my ideas, and I want to play the bite because Jeff gets only one thing a little wrong here that I want to correct, but you will hear what it is. LORD: Rush Limbaugh had a great suggestion about this to test the willingness of my friend Basil and others.  Let them come and give them a path to citizenship, but they can\u2019t vote for 25 years or so.  That would be an interesting proposition to see what the reaction is.<\/p>\n

SCIUTTO:  People come in the country but not have the right to vote?<\/p>\n

LORD:  Yeah, for 25 years or so.  So if they come illegally, they don\u2019t get the right to vote in America for 25 years.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  I didn\u2019t say grant \u2019em citizenship. You can\u2019t grant \u2019em citizenship and take away the vote.  I said amnesty.  I\u2019ve said all along, and nobody has taken me — look, can we all agree that if I came out for the amnesty, it would do a lot to push it over the finish line?  I might lose my radio show, but I could push it over the finish line.  Right?  With one proviso.  There are a lot of people that would love to have me supporting it, right?  And I\u2019ve offered to. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve told Chuck Schumer, and I\u2019ve told Karl Rove, I\u2019ve told any number, look, I\u2019ll be on your team, I\u2019ll come out and I\u2019ll promote amnesty as a way of solving the problem with one proviso:  Those granted amnesty are not granted citizenship for 10 or 15 years, meaning they can\u2019t register to vote 10 or 15 years. And let\u2019s just see, let\u2019s just see what kind of support there is because the whole reason the Democrat Party wants this is they see 11 million new voters.  They see a brand-new permanent underclass. <\/p>\n

So I wanted to correct this.  He didn\u2019t make a mistake; he just misspoke.  I would never suggest we grant people citizenship and deny them the right to vote for six months, much less 25 years.  It\u2019s amnesty that I was talking about.  We just want to forgive them, right?  Okay, they\u2019re here.  We\u2019re gonna admit that we\u2019re not gonna send them back.  That\u2019s amnesty.  We\u2019re gonna forgive their crime. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s another thing we could do.  We could increase their tax rate as a penalty.  Ha-ha-ha.  How do you think that would fly?  Can\u2019t vote for let\u2019s say 15 years and have to pay the full Medicare tax.  Nah, let\u2019s not complicate this.  Don\u2019t add their tax rate.  Just leave it alone.  And I guarantee you I wouldn\u2019t have any takers.  You might have some patient Democrats, “You say 10, 15 years, okay, all right, I\u2019ll go for that.” I\u2019m sure some would want to take it, but it would expose what this is all about.  <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Mark in Phoenix.  You\u2019re next, sir, welcome and great to have you here with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Thank you.  Hello to you and a special hello from my wife who is a huge fan yours, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Thank you.  I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Thanks for the call.  Real quick, on the immigration issue, I think that many of the candidates, Trump in particular, sort of talk around it, and I just don\u2019t think they\u2019re doing a good job.  So I have like a three-step program I\u2019d like to get your feedback on.  One is simply stop the flow.  That\u2019s security of the border by whatever means we need to, but I think the next ingredient that nobody talks about is to stop the incentives for coming here and start implementing the deterrence. <\/p>\n

So, in other words, if you\u2019re here illegally, if you\u2019ve come here illegally or you\u2019re caught coming across, you\u2019re considered a national threat.  And we\u2019re gonna have to deal with you in a very serious measure.  So stopping the border, telling them you\u2019re gonna treat them at a higher level —<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Now, wait.  The incentives are a tough one.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  No, no, no, no.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  ‘Cause everybody wants to come here, and we don\u2019t blame here wanting to come —<\/p>\n

CALLER:  No, no, no.  I agree.  And I think that they should come here but through the legal process.  But if they\u2019re gonna sneak across or come through illegally then we have to consider you a national security problem.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Well, k-nay.  K-nay, obviously.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  And then the other issue that I never anybody talking about and it seems so simple to me — you perhaps will relate to this; you and I are about the same age — but when I was a kid watching Saturday morning cartoons, I always remember, and it\u2019s still stuck in my head, the PSA service announcements that, if you\u2019re here in the country and not a citizen, you have to register with the government. <\/p>\n

So why not have everybody that\u2019s here illegally register, and, if you choose not to register, now you\u2019re considered a national threat, and, if you get stopped, you know, you\u2019re gonna face some serious consequences.  But if we register everyone, which we could easily do, now we know what the number is, is it five million people, 50 million people because that\u2019s part of the challenge —<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Well, but you still might not find them all.  People that come here illegally and get here illegally and then don\u2019t get involved in a traffic stop or some other kind of crime, technically you could maybe find them when they get hired.  Look, I get your drift, and I think you\u2019re defining, in essence, the Trump supporters\u2019 basic link to Trump on this, is that he\u2019s gonna do all this. He\u2019s gonna stop this, he\u2019s gonna stop the influx, we\u2019re gonna shore up the border, and we\u2019re gonna maintain the country.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re gonna protect it, we\u2019re gonna make sure that it\u2019s not overrun and that people that break the law don\u2019t get away with it.  Really it\u2019s a law-and-order issue as much as it is anything else.  I think the way the media goes after this, analyzes Trump, is not at all the way his supporters do.  I don\u2019t think they\u2019re anywhere near this critically attentive to it.  It\u2019s a broad-based issue to them, not macro.  And that\u2019s how they hear Trump dealing with it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like everything.  I think most Trump supporters think this isn\u2019t complicated, and the efforts to complicate it are how we have gotten into the mess.  It isn\u2019t complicated.  We got a law that says you cannot be here illegally, it is illegal to come here and stay here, and we enforce the law and everything would be fine.  But we don\u2019t enforce the law and that\u2019s why everybody\u2019s bent out of shape, and the rule of law goes by the wayside, what other glue is there to hold us together?  It\u2019s really not that complicated, but people want to make it so, because the more complicated it is, the more simpleton-like they can make Trump out to be and his supporters.  Don\u2019t doubt me.  <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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