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RUSH: Keith, Lancaster, California, I\u2019m glad you waited. You\u2019re on Open Line Friday. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you very much for having me, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I want to talk a little bit about Arizona. And first of all I want to say that the boycotting of Arizona is nothing but propaganda. Second of all, I think Mayor Villaraigosa and Barbara Boxer and Nancy Pelosi and the gang are all pickpocketing these people that come across the border and I consider that slavery because they pay into our system, and they don\u2019t collect the benefits. So I consider that slavery.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You mean you\u2019re accusing leftist supporters of illegal immigration of being slave traders?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Because they don\u2019t pay them very much money?<\/p>\n

CALLER: And they pay into our system and they don\u2019t get the benefits.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, see, that\u2019s where a lot of people would disagree with you. In California, they actually had a ballot initiative to eliminate welfare payments, education, and health care benefits to illegals. And it won. A federal judge overturned it, said it was unconstitutional. I think a lot of people think one of the problems with illegal immigration is they do get the benefits. And they\u2019re not paying anything for \u2019em.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I don\u2019t know. I just kind of feel that these people come across and they keep, you know, they — the… I feel that the Obama administration and all that want these people to come and go across the border as they please so they work in this country and they can pick their pocket and a their money. I just feel that for me that\u2019s slavery, in my book.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t know they\u2019re picking their pockets. There\u2019s not much in their pockets. Whatever they earn they send back home. I\u2019m not trying to be funny. That\u2019s why they\u2019re coming here. They don\u2019t have much in their pockets. There\u2019s one reason that the political class wants these people here, and it\u2019s not complicated. In fact, it\u2019s so simple that it\u2019s unbelievable. They want their votes. If not their votes, they want the votes of their ethnic brothers and sisters in the Hispanic population. You can see it in Dingy Harry. Dingy Harry is in big trouble in Nevada, and now they\u2019re pushing for the amnesty bill. And Dingy Harry\u2019s theory is that he\u2019ll benefit greatly and be supported by Hispanic voters in Nevada because he\u2019s for amnesty for their brothers and sisters. It\u2019s all about votes — and especially Obama. <\/p>\n

Look, I don\u2019t care what public face they put on it, they can read the polls and they know that they\u2019re toast in November. I mean even now, 63%, for example, of Americans want to repeal health care. The momentum against it is growing. In fact, I\u2019ve got a story here in the stack about one state is going to try to invalidate it on the merits of it. But here. The easiest way to understand illegal immigration is this, and why the political class doesn\u2019t want to do anything about it. Right now the theory is that over 50% of Hispanic voters vote Democrat. If it were otherwise, if polling data indicated that the arriving illegals were over 50 or 60% prone to vote Republican, there would already be deportation going on. Numerous Acela trains and tracks would have been built.<\/p>\n

There\u2019d be one-way trips from Phoenix, San Diego, San Antonio, Ciudad Juarez, El Paso, all the way down past Mexico, all the way past Nicaragua, all the way down to Peru, if they were going to vote Republican. But since they\u2019re going to vote Democrat, the Democrat Party is gonna treat them as a domestic minority: Victims of a mean-spirited, racist and bigoted majority in this country. ‘They\u2019re just searching for a better life. (sobbing) Who are you to deny them a better life?\u2019 If they wanted a better life as Republicans? Ha! Nobody would give a rat\u2019s rear end about their quest for a better life. Now, the Republicans. ‘Well, what about the Republicans?\u2019 because the Republicans think there\u2019s a chance to get \u2019em. Republicans… Look at the Republicans\u2019 efforts in 2007 to support amnesty there. (doing angry McCain impression) ‘If we show \u2019em, Limbaugh — if we show \u2019em we\u2019re on their side — they may vote for us! We need their votes, too! We can\u2019t let the Democrats have \u2019em.\u2019 So it\u2019s the political class lined up against the American people, as always.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Illegal immigrants send more than $30 billion a year back to Mexico. There is nothing in their pockets to pick. The way to understand amnesty out there: Amnesty is the single largest voter drive in American history. That\u2019s all you need to know about it. That\u2019s all it is, folks. It\u2019s not based on anything humanitarian, it\u2019s not based on anything oriented toward, ‘They just want a better life.\u2019 It\u2019s not based on, ‘We in America want to share our bounty and open our doors to all who want to be here.\u2019 It\u2019s not about that at all. Amnesty is the single largest voter drive in the history of the United States. Don\u2019t doubt me. I\u2019m telling you. It sounds so simple that you say, ‘It can\u2019t be that,\u2019 and oftentimes, ladies and gentlemen, the simplest explanation is what\u2019s correct precisely because it is simple. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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