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RUSH: I want to share with you two stories from the Associated Press. One&lt;\/a> was posted at 3:16 this morning — both the same writer, Suzanne Gamboa — and the other one&lt;\/a> posted a little bit less than an hour ago at 12:19. Here\u2019s the first one. “Senate Republicans…” This is the one from 3:16 this morning. “Senate Republicans searching for a compromise on whether more than 11 million illegal immigrants should be allowed to eventually seek citizenship moved toward limiting that opportunity to those who have lived in the country at least five years. Negotiators who met for about an hour late Monday evening in the office of Senate majority leader Bill Frist seem to have settled on five years as a demarcation for those who could remain and work and eventually earn citizenship.<\/p>\n

“Details were to be provided to other Senate Republicans at their closed-door Thursday morning meeting. ‘We\u2019re looking at the roots concept, and that is if they have been here more than five years,\u2019 said Senator Specter. ‘If they\u2019ve been here less than five years, they don\u2019t have roots to the same extent and can be treated differently, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re looking at.\u2019 The fate of those with less time in the country was unclear, but Specter suggested they might be asked to go to ports of entry…” (Laughing.) Pardon me, folks. I just love it whenever the word “ports” shows up in any story. (laughing) Send them to ports of entry! (Laughing.) “…like the Texas border city of El Paso, and they would not have to return to their native countries.”<\/p>\n

Well, they stay in El Paso? We\u2019re going to send them all to El Paso? You didn\u2019t think of El Paso as a port of entry, did you? “Opponents consider the judiciary committee bill amnesty. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Jon Kyl (R-AZ) would give illegal immigrants up to five years to leave the country before they can return legally to apply for permanent residents. Cornyn was not at the meeting at Frist\u2019s office but his spokesman, Don Stewart, was skeptical of the suggested compromise. ‘It\u2019s a matter of giving amnesty to eight million people or giving amnesty to 12 million, it\u2019s still amnesty to millions of people.'” All right. Now, that\u2019s the story at 3:15. Let\u2019s go the story that was just posted at 12:19 this afternoon. I have that story right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.<\/p>\n

“Supporters of a guest worker program that would let illegal immigrants stay in the United States said Tuesday they don\u2019t have enough Senate votes to overcome objections from conservatives who oppose the measure on grounds it amounts to amnesty. As negotiators worked on a compromise to let those who have been here longest remain,” that\u2019s the roots concept, “Senator McCain [the maverick from Arizona] said a majority in the 100-member Senate support his and Ted Kennedy\u2019s proposal to provide green cards to illegal immigrants after they\u2019ve worked in the US for six years, but it takes 60 senators to overcome opponents\u2019 parliamentary tactics, and McCain said they didn\u2019t have that many.<\/p>\n

“More than 11 million immigrants are believed to be in the US, and Senator Mel Martinez (R-FL) and he and Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) are pushing a fall-back plan that would put those who have been here the longest on a track toward citizenship but treat more recent arrivals differently. A similar approach was rejected by the Senate judiciary committee last week, but it was revived Monday night during the meeting in Bill Frist\u2019s office. About 30 Republican senators huddled for more than an hour Tuesday. No consensus emerged.<\/p>\n

“McCain and Kennedy denied that their proposal is amnesty, saying illegal immigrants would have to pay $2,000 in fines and any back taxes and clear background checks before they could get in line for a green card.” I still want to know how we\u2019re going to find these people. How are we going to collect the fines? When are they going to be fined? You know what\u2019s going to happen. The word\u2019s going to spread in the illegal community that this is a trick. Don\u2019t turn yourself in because it\u2019s secretly a plan to deport you, and if you go identify yourself, that\u2019s what\u2019s going to happen. I guess what I\u2019m getting at is where are the enforcement mechanisms in even this? I mean, if they\u2019re afraid to enforce the current laws on the books for fear that they will lose politically in terms of Hispanic votes, then isn\u2019t any kind of enforcement going to upset this community and impact negatively the possibility they would vote for Republicans down the line? So I don\u2019t see any kind of enforcement mechanism here that\u2019s going to work. But McCain says that there\u2019s not enough backing in the Senate for his and Ted Kennedy\u2019s guest worker program, folks. It just isn\u2019t there. It\u2019s maybe a little early to suggest that there\u2019s movement taking place here on this in the right direction, but it appears so.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I have some other interesting immigration stories in the immigration stack today, one of them from the American Thinker by Herbert Meyer. Herb Meyer served during the Reagan administration, special assistant to the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He is also vice-chairman of the CIA\u2019s National Intelligence Council, and the title of his piece: “Why Americans Hate This ‘Immigration\u2019 Debate — Simply put, the debate in Washington isn\u2019t about ‘immigration\u2019 at all and that\u2019s the problem.<\/p>\n

“To ordinary Americans, the definition of ‘immigration\u2019 is very specific: You come here with absolutely nothing except a burning desire to be an American. You start off at some miserable, low-paying job that at least puts a roof over your family\u2019s head and food on the table. You put your kids in school, tell them how lucky they are to be here and make darn sure they do well even if that means hiring a tutor and taking a second, or third, job to pay for it. You learn English, even if you\u2019ve got to take classes at night when you\u2019re dead tired. You play by the rules which means you pay your taxes, get a driver\u2019s license and insure your car so that if yours hits mine, I can recover the cost of the damages. And you file for citizenship the first day you\u2019re eligible.<\/p>\n

“Do all this and you become an American like all the rest of us. Your kids will lose their accents, move into the mainstream, and retain little of their heritage except a few words of your language and if you\u2019re lucky an irresistible urge to visit you now and then for some of mom\u2019s old-country cooking. This is how the Italians made it, the Germans made it, the Dutch made it, the Poles made it, the Jews made it, and more recently how the Cubans and the Vietnamese made it. The process isn\u2019t easy but it works and that\u2019s the way ordinary Americans want to keep it. But the millions of Hispanics who have come to our country in the last several decades and it\u2019s the Hispanics we\u2019re talking about in this debate, not those from other cultures are, in fact, two distinct groups.<\/p>\n

“The first group is comprised of ‘immigrants\u2019 just like all the others, who have put the old country behind them and want only to be Americans. They aren\u2019t the problem. Indeed, most Americans welcome them among us, as we have welcomed so many other cultures. The problem is the second group of Hispanics. They aren\u2019t immigrants which is what neither the Democratic or Republican leadership seems to understand, or wants to acknowledge. They have come here solely for jobs, which isn\u2019t the same thing at all. (And many of them have come here illegally.) Whether they remain in the U.S. for one year, or ten years or for the rest of their lives they don\u2019t conduct themselves like immigrants. Yes, they work hard to put roofs above their heads and food on their tables and for this we respect them. But they have little interest in learning English themselves, and instead demand that we make it possible for them to function here in Spanish. They put their children in our schools, but don\u2019t always demand as much from them as previous groups demanded of their kids. They don\u2019t always pay their taxes or insure their cars.<\/p>\n

“In short, they aren\u2019t playing by the rules that our families played by when they immigrated to this country. And to ordinary Americans this behavior is deeply very deeply offensive. We see it unfolding every day in our communities, and we don\u2019t like it. This is what none of our politicians either understands, or dares to say aloud. Instead, they blather on and on about ‘amnesty\u2019 and ‘border security\u2019 without ever coming to grips with what is so visible, and so offensive, to so many of us namely, all these foreigners among us who aren\u2019t behaving like immigrants.” No desire to become Americans. “If we hadn\u2019t always had a huge number of these miserable jobs available that none of ‘us\u2019 would do  there wouldn\u2019t have been a way for immigrants throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to step off the boat and find work.<\/p>\n

“A willingness by ‘immigrants\u2019 to start at the bottom so they can move up the economic ladder or at least give their kids a shot at the higher rungs is precisely how the system is supposed to work. And it always has. (My own family is one of the tens of millions that did precisely this. My grandfather came from Poland and found work as a pocket-maker in New York\u2019s garment district. The pay was low, the hours were long, and when the old man finally retired he could hardly move his fingers or see without thick glasses. Yet one of his sons, my uncle, became a lawyer with a fancy practice on Manhattan\u2019s Upper East Side. His kids did even better; his son wound up chairman of Stanford University\u2019s history department, and his daughter became a famous art critic, moved to London, and married an Englishman who became a member of the House of Lords. What is astonishing about this story is that it isn\u2019t astonishing. It\u2019s the sort of thing that happens all the time, and it\u2019s why ordinary Americans don\u2019t want to change the system that made it possible.) Until our elected officials come to grips with the real issue that\u2019s troubling ordinary Americans not a growing population of foreigners among us, but rather a growing population of foreigners among us who aren\u2019t behaving like immigrants public frustration will grow no matter what bill Congress passes in the coming weeks. It could lead to the kind of political explosion that none of us really wants.”<\/p>\n

Again, that was Herbert Meyer who served during the Reagan administration, special assistant to the director of the CIA. Yeah, they\u2019ll call him a “nativist” and other such things. Rich Lowry has a piece today&lt;\/a>. I\u2019m going to the bottom of the stack here, but it dovetails nicely with Herb\u2019s piece — and, by the way, Herbert Myers\u2019 piece that I just shared excerpts with you, is found at the AmericanThinker.com. “Forget the long-running bipartisan concern about creating an educated, highly skilled workforce. What the U.S. economy desperately needs is more high-school dropouts so desperately that we should import them hand over fist. Such is the logic of the contention by advocates of lax immigration that the flow of illegal labor from south of the border is a boon to our economy.<\/p>\n

“But it doesn\u2019t make intuitive sense that importing the poor of Latin America would benefit us. If low-skill workers were key to economic growth, Mexico would be an economic powerhouse, and impoverished Americans would be slipping south over the Rio Grande. The National Research Council reports that an immigrant to the U.S. without a high-school diploma whether legal or illegal consumes $89,000 more in governmental services than he pays in taxes during his lifetime. An immigrant with only a high-school diploma is a net cost of $31,000. Eighty percent of illegal immigrants have no more than a high-school degree, and 60% have less than a high-school degree.<\/p>\n

“Steve Camarota of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Immigration Studies estimates that illegal immigrants cost the federal government $10 billion a year. State and local governments lose even more. Illegals pay some taxes, but not enough to cover governmental expenses like Medicaid and treatment for the uninsured… Whatever benefit illegals provide to the economy in general must be minuscule. All workers without a high-school education illegal and otherwise account for only 3% of economic output. Even if illegal immigrants were dominant in low-skill industries, their broader impact would be small. But they aren\u2019t dominant, and that includes job categories associated with immigrants. Nearly 60% of cab drivers are native-born. In only four of 473 job classifications are immigrants a majority of the workers.”<\/p>\n

Now, Lowry\u2019s point is this: “With the U.S. population aging, don\u2019t we need highly fertile immigrants to replenish our working-age population?” Because our birth rate in this country is down because of abortion and a number of other reasons — people like me, not having kids. The birth rate\u2019s down, and so there\u2019s going to have to be replacement levels here, and Lowry\u2019s point is replacing young workers with people that don\u2019t have high school diplomas from Latin America is senseless. If we really need more poorly educated workers here, we can always rely unfortunately on the public schools to produce them indigenously. We have plenty of them in our own country.<\/p>\n

“Immigration from Latin America, in short, does not chiefly benefit our economy, government or society, but rather the immigrants themselves. Their motives, if not their means, are admirable they want to improve their lives. Advocates of a lax immigration policy should admit that their policy has a humanitarian, not an economic, rationale, and its beneficiaries aren\u2019t Americans but mainly people from rural Mexico,” and when I read this, I thought of Dick Durbin yesterday and his comment that we need these people. These are the backbone of America! These people coming here, they are our future. They\u2019re neurobiologists or what have you. But Lowry is exactly right. If a permanent underclass with no high school diploma or education was the key to economic growth, Mexico and a lot of other countries would be ruling the economic roost of the world. But they aren\u2019t, are they?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s a story from the New Orleans Times-Picayune, headline: “Migrants Find a Gold Rush in New Orleans — Word spread to Latino laborers as Katrina\u2019s floodwaters ebbed: There is work with good money and no questions about papers.” That\u2019s the subhead. “As the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina receded in September, roads filled with residents leaving the city, their cars, SUVs and moving vans jammed with what they had salvaged of their lives. But another mass movement was taking place on the other sides of the highways. Thousands of men from Mexico and Central America were driving into the city.<\/p>\n

“Word had spread throughout the Latino immigrant diaspora in America that the city had plenty of work, construction wages had doubled to $16 an hour and no one was asking for papers. ‘It was like a Gold Rush,\u2019 said Oscar Calanche, a Guatemalan immigrant who lived in New Orleans before the storm and returned as soon as the waters receded. ‘In one car there\u2019d be three up front and three or four in the back, with suitcases and tools on top. It looked like a river of people from our countries.\u2019 Latino workers have gutted, roofed and painted houses and hauled away garbage, debris and downed trees. Undocumented workers have installed trailers to houses returning evacuees at New Orleans City Park, their pay coming from FEMA subcontractors.<\/p>\n

“‘It\u2019s all illegals doing this work,\u2019 said Rey Mendez, a FEMA trailer subcontractor from Honduras. No one knows how many Latino immigrants are here, but John Logan, a Brown University demographer who has studied the city since Katrina, says ‘there must be 10,000 to 20,000 immigrant workers in the region by now, and the number is going to grow.'” New Orleans, as you know, ladies and gentlemen, is a big port town. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. So I just want to throw this in. They\u2019re looking at it as a golden opportunity, as the other residents flee. Concord, New Hampshire, Mark, glad you waited. You\u2019re up next on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, good to talk to you.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: One thing that Thomas Sowell&lt;\/a> brought up in an article a long time ago, and you might have read it, it seems that these immigrants — excuse me, illegals — most of them work in agriculture, and a large part of them are working for farms which, my guess, are getting subsidies from the US government and\/or getting tariffs to restrict imports. Now, the tariffs arguably protect American jobs.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Jobs being manned by illegal aliens, and the subsidies that they\u2019re going to a farm that has to hire illegals to produce something, what the hell is going on here? Particularly the sugar industry. There\u2019s no reason they need to be producing sugar in America when they could import it for half the cost somewhere else. But the tariff on there, and we have to hire illegals to do it here, this is ridiculous. I mean, why is nobody making this argument except Thomas Sowell?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, we\u2019ve talked about this I don\u2019t know how many times. The agricultural business in this community is one side of the controversy in the Republican Party on this. It is cheap labor, and this has spawned the phrase, “This is work that Americans will no longer do.” But Sowell\u2019s column was right on the money. I mean, there\u2019s subsidies\u2019, there are tariffs. There are subsidies for not growing crops, depending on the crop year to year, and then the American taxpayer is further subsidizing by essentially allowing cheap labor.<\/p>\n

But this has resulted in the agriculture business, people calling here defending the program, and they do it on the basis: “You want cheap food? Food is necessary. Food is not an option. We all have to eat, and the objective of the farm community has always been to produce food — processed or natural, organic, what have you — at the lowest possible price.” But do you know what the markup is at the grocery store on actual food? I\u2019m not talking when you go in there and you buy stuff that\u2019s not food, I mean, the markup on that stuff is outrageous.<\/p>\n

One to two percent is the markup in your average grocery. I\u2019m not talking about these little trendy, you know, Upper West Side delis and stuff. I mean, your average supermarket, the markup is very little. It\u2019s because people have to eat, and one of the things they say is, “Well, if you force us to put all this expensive labor in there then you better be prepared for the price of your food to go up and people have gotten so accustomed to it.” Farming, by the way, have you ever heard when unemployment figures or employment figures are announced, invariably you will see if you read about it or in some places depending on who reports it, you will hear, “Non-farm payrolls” this period either up or down or whatever.<\/p>\n

Non-farm, you get two payrolls in this country, goes way, way back to the day when the #1 business. It may still be, in one sense or another, agriculture, but there is the old family farm. That\u2019s why non-farm payrolls are considered to be different than standard get up nine to five jobs. But in the old days before all these giant corporations owned the production of food in this country it was little mom and pop farm, go way, way, way back. There\u2019s almost a nostalgic tradition associated with it, and it survives to this day, regardless who the owners, because that was a tough, tough business. <\/p>\n

You couldn\u2019t guarantee a crop every year. If you had a dust-bowl period, if you got wiped out by a storm, heavy rains or whatever, it was a very risky proposition, and that\u2019s why a lot of these subsidized programs began was to protect these people because they were feeding not only the people in this country but they began to feed the rest of the world as well — and farming today is still treated, policy-wise, for the most part, like it was when it was a mom and mom operation in the 1800s, and now these agribusiness people are very powerful. They\u2019ve got a lot of political influence and so forth, and so that\u2019s why these programs have basically hung on.<\/p>\n

I had two stories for you last week. I found this fascinating bit of information&lt;\/a> at Right Wing News, a blog, about two efforts back in the mid-nineties by the then INS, the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Listen to these two stories. The first story was from Georgia, and the INS was trolling around looking for illegal immigrants and so forth, and they came across an onion farm and they found what had to be a bunch of illegals in there so they conducted a raid, and sure as heck, found a bunch of illegals, and the illegals — half of them, more than half of them — just split, could never be found, the others are rounded up and, you know, told to take a hike.<\/p>\n

Well, the onion farmer got on the phone to his senators — one was a Republican, one was a Democrat — raised holy hell, and the guy got hold of his congressman, too, and the INS director got a phone call from members of Congress, said (paraphrasing): “You idiot, you like this job? Here\u2019s what you do. You go round those people up and you bring \u2019em back and you let \u2019em finish picking the crop and then you run \u2019em off, preferably before the farmer has to pay \u2019em, but you have just destroyed this man\u2019s ability to pick his onion crop this year,” blah, blah, blah.<\/p>\n

So the INS, doing what it thought it was charged to do, gets beat up on by a couple of members of the Senate — and, like the article said, if you\u2019re a government bureaucrat, making what they make, with a couple kids in school, you\u2019re going to buckle to the pressure rather than make a stand on principle and get canned and probably blackballed. The next story involved the meatpacking industry in Nebraska. It\u2019s a pretty big industry, and so the INS not wanting to make the same mistaken they made in the onion farms of Georgia, instead subpoenaed the employment records of as many employees of the meatpacking firm as was practicable at the time.<\/p>\n

There was about 4,000, and they started matching Social Security numbers, and they found 3,000 phonies. They found 3,000 illegals, and they intended to do this every two to three months, and after awhile they figured they would have the whole state cleaned out of illegal immigrants. Well, before they even got to do it a second time, the meatpacking industry let their elected officials in Washington know what the hell was going on, and the poor people at the INS heard about it again — and so the bottom line is the INS has been told not to enforce any of this stuff when it comes to agribusiness or there will be hell to pay.<\/p>\n

These are the people, by the way (senators, congressmen), these are the people that write the law! These are the people writing the law, and they end up telling the INS, the then-INS, “You\u2019d better not enforce it. You\u2019d better not enforce it, or it will be big trouble for you.” So when you hear stories like this, it sort of helps you focus on why there\u2019s not a whole lot of enforcement going on out there when it comes to illegals, because the current existing law would fine these employers for doing this, but it doesn\u2019t happen, and that\u2019s why the focus now is on the border, and they\u2019re trying just to keep as many of them out as possible.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not even a serious attempt that\u2019s being made right now. There\u2019s call for that. You have so many factors in this. The bottom line is, folks, that the people who write the laws in this country really don\u2019t have any interest in this. They\u2019re all just pandering to us. Every 20 years, Simpson-Mazzoli was the last time, same thing happened, was supposed to fix it. I mean, the figure that we were dealing with then was four million illegals. We\u2019re going to get rid of them. We\u2019re going to fix the problem. It isn\u2019t going to happen, and it just keeps amplifying itself and growing because there\u2019s no enforcement.<\/p>\n

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