{"id":35283,"date":"2010-04-29T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:05:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T01:05:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:05:17","slug":"left_misrepresents_arizona_law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/04\/29\/left_misrepresents_arizona_law\/","title":{"rendered":"Left Misrepresents Arizona Law"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: San Ramon, California. Raymond, you\u2019re next, and welcome.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, thanks for the great job that you do. I\u2019m an employer, I\u2019ve been in business for 20 years, and if I all of a sudden decided to create a ‘sanctuary business\u2019 and not check documents for people coming to work for me, I would quickly find myself in violation of the law, maybe in jail. But yet here we have the current administration telling law enforcement not to check the very documents that I\u2019m required to check by law because, after all, I\u2019m the criminal! I create jobs. As the one-note samba, conga line media constantly pronounces that employers are the problem for illegal immigration and we have to crack down on them. So I think what the administration is saying is, we need to have a ‘don\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u2019 at the border; ‘don\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u2019 at our hospitals and schools; ‘don\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u2019 for our social services. But once that illegal tries to get a job, now we crack down on the real criminal: The employer.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s exactly right. That is exactly right, and they\u2019re misrepresenting it. I want to say this again: Obama and everybody on the left is misrepresenting the Arizona law. Again, I have here this from Kris Kobach, I\u2019m not sure how he pronounces his last name. He\u2019s a professor. He\u2019s the primary author of the Arizona legislation. He said, ‘This law only kicks in when a police officer already has made a lawful contact with the person such as stopping him for breaking another law,\u2019 and it doesn\u2019t take effect until summertime anyway, but it\u2019s ‘already having an effect on the state\u2019s underground economy.\u2019<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Jan Brewer was on Greta\u2019s show last night, the governor of Arizona, and Van Susteren says, ‘Does Arizona feel abandoned by national leaders on the issue of immigration?\u2019<\/p>\n

BREWER: We do, Greta, we have been fighting this issue, this problem that\u2019s facing Arizona probably for the last 15 years, and now since I\u2019ve been governor, since last January, I have written numerous letters to the administration in regards to securing our borders with absolutely no response, so we — I\u2019ve been facing this crisis, and it\u2019s devastating the people of Arizona. And I feel as governor I have a responsibility to protect the citizens. We\u2019ve been inundated with criminal activity, it\u2019s been outrageous.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So Van Susteren says, ‘The borders still haven\u2019t been secured. Why do you think everybody talks about it but it hasn\u2019t been done?\u2019<\/p>\n

BREWER: It\u2019s very, very frustrating. Arizona is of course catching the brunt of it all. It is unfortunate because it is illegal and is their federal responsibility to secure our borders, it\u2019s not just illegal immigration, terrorists that come across, they\u2019re devastating our ranchers down in southern Arizona, drop houses, kidnapping, automobile accidents, extortion, drugs, the spillover with the drug cartels, we\u2019re facing all of it. And we\u2019re not going to put up with it any longer, and I hope that now that we\u2019ve got Senate Bill 1070 signed and ready to go into law, that we\u2019ll get somebody\u2019s attention. But it is the federal government\u2019s responsibility to secure our borders. States cannot sustain it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right on, right on, right on, right on. Then the next question: ‘I don\u2019t know whether a court will declare a portion or all of your statute unconstitutional. There\u2019s one part that has caught many people\u2019s eyes. President Obama has described it as misguided. What is your reaction to Obama\u2019s description?\u2019<\/p>\n

BREWER: He has a right to say whatever he wants to say, but ‘misguided,\u2019 I think he\u2019s wrong. We have a responsibility, I have a responsibility to the people of Arizona, and I\u2019m sure he\u2019s concerned because of the brouhaha and overdramatic comments about racial profiling. I made perfectly clear when I signed the bill that we would not tolerate racial profiling. Our law is exactly like the federal law, and if the Feds won\u2019t come in and protect us, then we will come forward and protect ourselves. We have no other choice.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly right, we have no other choice. It\u2019s Obama and the federal government not enforcing the law that\u2019s forcing all of this other action. Phoenix, Arizona is becoming the kidnap capital of the world. Where\u2019s the outrage here? And here\u2019s our postpartisan, postracial president now claiming that all this is racial profiling when he knows damn well that\u2019s not what it is. Nobody in Arizona can be pulled over because of their race or because of the way they look. The cops can\u2019t engage \u2019em unless they\u2019ve got reason to on some other grounds, traffic stop or what have you, suspicion of robbery. They\u2019re just lying through their teeth about this. And it\u2019s plain as day to anybody who wants to inform themselves about it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: We go to Fort Worth, Texas. Jeff, thank you for waiting, sir. You\u2019re on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, mega coyote-killing dittos from the great state of Texas.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: My question, why is it when a bank is robbed the local police show up, or even the kidnappings in Phoenix, why are the local police involved? They\u2019re federal crimes. If it\u2019s a federal crime, how come the local police get involved?<\/p>\n

RUSH: You got me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I mean they say they can\u2019t enforce, you know, federal law in Arizona because it\u2019s a federal law. Well, how come your state has a National Guard? I mean the Constitution says that, you know, the United States —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, I see where you\u2019re going. I see what you\u2019re doing here. You\u2019re making a substantive point about something there is no substance in. The arguments that the regime and its associates are making on this Arizona law have nothing to do with the law. They\u2019re throwing the race card here. This is profiling, produce your papers, they don\u2019t want a substantive analysis of this at all, any part of that, because on the substance, just like on any other issue, they lose. That\u2019s why the template here, the narrative is: this racism, this white supremacy, this Nazi-like tactics, why, this is going to launch Democrats to new heights of power in the November elections, and really, really motivate Obama\u2019s base, really, really reenergize Democrat voters. It\u2019s all a crock. But that\u2019s the template that they are trying to create. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Michelle in San Angelo Texas, what I love about San Angelo, Texas, is you have to be going there to get there. You will never accidentally run into the place. How are you, Michelle?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely. Absolutely, Rush. And I have been waiting many a year to talk to you and I will say special prayers that I got through today.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, thank you. Listen, I am beyond, beyond frightened, terrified, and livid listening to this mess going on in Arizona because we are watching this with very close eyes. If they think, if the rest of the country thinks that it\u2019s just Arizona that\u2019s dealing with this, they are so incredibly wrong. We are already dealing with the effects of this in Texas, all of these border states, we know exactly what they\u2019re going through. We\u2019ve been waiting for somebody to do exactly what you said, which is, you know, your very uninformed caller earlier who proposed that we put a plan in place as Republicans. The plan is there, all we need to do is enforce it and that\u2019s what Arizona is doing. But we\u2019re watching very closely because literally running through my front yard is a path that goes straight from the border. If those people are getting pulled off their ranches, they\u2019re being infiltrated, people are living on their land and they can\u2019t kick \u2019em off, they\u2019re being killed, raped, kidnapped, I am watching what they do because we are next, and when we\u2019re next then it\u2019s just going to go straight up through Texas —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly, look, I heard just after this Think Progress wonk city blog, whatever it is, they\u2019re a very liberal blog, very afraid that more states now are thinking of taking up the Arizona law at seven. I just heard that Ohio is thinking of an Arizona-like law, Ohio, which Ohio voted Democrat last time, but maybe not the next time. Anyway, Michelle, thanks so much. You\u2019re exactly right. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Patrick in Green Bay. It\u2019s great to have you on the program, sir. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir. Big fan. Thanks for having me.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: My point is that, you know, this immigration problem has gone on for so long that although this Arizona thing is a good step in the right direction, I still think that the only way that this is gonna get fixed is if we immediately close the border — and, unfortunately, I also think that we\u2019re going to have to eventually grant amnesty to the 15 million illegals that are here. Because, you know, they got roots here, they got family. It\u2019s kind of our screw up, and I think that\u2019s the only way that we\u2019re going to get around the problem.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t disagree. Look, I have never on this program advocated mass deportation. It isn\u2019t practically, it isn\u2019t going to happen. You have nailed it? Border security is the key. Stop it at this point. Where we are now is it. Everybody from this day on gets in here legally. But the Feds aren\u2019t doing it. They\u2019ve already got laws to secure the border and they\u2019re not doing it. This is why Arizona is moving in to take care of itself, and the reason the Feds aren\u2019t doing it is because there are people in both parties who want the votes of these people, pure and simple. It\u2019s not about compassion for then. It\u2019s not about the fact they ‘have families here.\u2019 It\u2019s not about they ‘want a better life.\u2019 They are potential voters — and from the Democrat side it\u2019s a twofer. Not only are they potential voters, they\u2019re also potential wards of the state. So the way they look at it, they can\u2019t lose. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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