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RUSH: Audio sound bites. Let\u2019s get back to them. Scott Walker this morning was in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, talking about people tired of the Republican leadership in Washington that does not deliver.<\/p>\n

WALKER: We just got a government in Washington that can\u2019t quite seem to get the job done. When I talk to people all across this country, people all across America are fed up with Washington. And I feel your pain. I\u2019m fed up with Washington, too. We were told by Republican leaders during the campaigns last year that we just needed a Republican Senate to be elected to repeal Obamacare. Well, here we sit. Both chambers of the United States Congress have been controlled since January by Republicans, and yet there\u2019s not a bill in the president\u2019s desk to repeal Obamacare. I want to be perfectly clear: Americans want more than just campaign promises. They want results. Actions speak louder than words.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, do you know what this means or represents? This is Scott Walker joining Ted Cruz. What is starting to happen here — and we\u2019re going to note it as it happens. Right now, it\u2019s just barely a trickle. But what is beginning to happen here is that you have Trump over here doing what he\u2019s doing, and you\u2019ve got Cruz here doing what he\u2019s doing next to Trump.<\/line><\/p>\n

And now you\u2019re starting to see other members of the pack from the remaining 14 try to distance themselves from the pack and get closer to what Trump and Cruz are doing. I call it the me-too phase, but it is… It is… Well, I\u2019m trying to be very guarded here. I asked yesterday. You know, you have all these people complaining about Trump and whatever his plan is, I mean, immigration, take the issue he talks about. <\/p>\n

Where are the…? I know there is a reluctance on the part of people to speak out against Trump, which is indicative of things itself, and that\u2019s because he\u2019s so popular. I mean, the only people willing to speak out against Trump (chuckles) is the Washington establishment. These candidates are not doing it because they don\u2019t want to insult Trump\u2019s voters. They want Trump\u2019s voters! I\u2019ve been wondering, well, where is…<\/p>\n

Where are these other candidates actually joining Trump on this field, say, on whatever. Immigration. “My plan\u2019s better. I like what Trump\u2019s doing if they do it, but my plan\u2019s better.” Where is that? Well, we\u2019re starting to see that now. We will see if this continues. This to me is a potentially explosive time and portion of this entire Republican primary here, and this is two days in a row here that Scott Walker has attempted to move away from the pack, distance himself from the pack. <\/p>\n

Yesterday it was, “Hey, you know what? I have a lot of things I agree with Trump on this immigration stuff.” Today, he\u2019s joining Cruz in the criticism of the Republican leadership in Washington and Congress. So this is beginning to take place. Now, Jeb Bush is never gonna do that. Jeb Bush is never gonna leave the pack. He\u2019s gonna try to remain the one guy in the pack after everybody else leaves it. <\/p>\n

The strategy in the establishment here is to have all these so-called conservatives out there divvying up the vote with Jeb Bush left standing as the moderate inheritor of the fractured vote and winner of the primary, so he can say that he won the nomination without pandering to the base. That\u2019s his objective. <\/p>\n

The Jeb Bush objective is to have the base vote split so much by all these other candidates that he\u2019s left standing alone in the pack, and he can then say, “Hey, I was true to my word! I told you I was gonna win this nomination without the base.” That\u2019s what he\u2019s trying to do. So we go to a Charleston, South Carolina, campaign event. Here\u2019s Jeb Bush speaking about immigration reform and Trump.<\/p>\n

JEB: This is not about the big personality in the room. This is about, “How do you fix problems that are broken?” We need to start solving the problems instead of just saying how bad things are. And so, um, I — I appreciate the fact that Mr. Trump now has a plan, if — if that\u2019s what it\u2019s called. But I think the better approach is to deal with the 11 million people here illegally in a — in a way that is, uh, realistic, and to have border security that is done in the right way to lessen the number of people crossing our border.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. All well and good. This border security business, though, I have to tell you something. Of course it\u2019s the right thing to do, but we\u2019ve had nothing but lip service on it. You know what? If we really had border security, if we were able to stop what I think is an invasion… Folks, I\u2019m gonna open up here for a minute. I don\u2019t even think we\u2019re talking about immigration here. This isn\u2019t immigration, what\u2019s happening in this country. It\u2019s not even illegal immigration. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re being invaded!<\/p>\n

These are refugees from either poverty-stricken or war-torn parts of the Western Hemisphere, Southern hemisphere, whatever. It\u2019s happening in Europe. European nations are facing the same influx from people in Third World countries that are having to leave because of poverty and war, what have you. But this is not illegal immigration, what\u2019s happening here. I mean, it is, when you have solutions that call for them to eventually become citizens. But what\u2019s actually happening here, to me, is not immigration. <\/p>\n

We don\u2019t have an immigration system that permits this. <\/p>\n

This is happening in violation of the immigration laws, which is the whole point. To call these people “illegal immigrants” is to give them a status that I don\u2019t think is valid. Even though they may say, “No, we\u2019re coming here; we want to become citizens.” Well, yeah, of course that\u2019s what you\u2019re gonna say. You want asylum. But that\u2019s not what this is. “Immigration” is when what happens is legal. There are people who fill out forms. They apply. They go through the process.<\/p>\n

They wait, they get visas, they follow the law. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s immigration. <\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t. <\/p>\n

This is something else. <\/p>\n

Now, you call it whatever you want, but I look at it as a bunch of refugees flooding the country, and Democrat Party and the Republican Party are not interested in stopping it, because they have uses for these people. The Democrats see them as voters. The Republicans see them as cheap labor, or at least their business donors do, and maybe some Republicans also see them as voters, or what have you. Whatever, it\u2019s a total mess. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the thing. If there were really border security, like there is at practically every other border, like you can\u2019t do this at the Canadian border. We guard it. We govern it. People don\u2019t even try. But on the Southern border, it\u2019s wide open. If that were shut down, and all these candidates give lip service to it but nothing is ever done. We build a fence and then we stop after 10 feet. A state then gets frustrated and tries to do something about it, they get sued by the Obama administration. <\/p>\n

All the state\u2019s doing — in this case, Arizona — was attempting to create state laws that were a mirror of federal law that is not being enforced. The administration sues them, saying you don\u2019t have jurisdiction, it\u2019s our issue. So people have rightly concluded the establishment\u2019s of both parties don\u2019t really want to stop it, because if you did, you wouldn\u2019t have to go do anything about anchor babies. There wouldn\u2019t be as many. You wouldn\u2019t have to propose changing the Fourth Amendment. You wouldn\u2019t have to propose getting rid of birthright citizenship because there wouldn\u2019t be very many, if you actually were enforcing the immigration law. <\/line><\/p>\n

But we\u2019re not. There\u2019s a reason why we\u2019re not. But that\u2019s not what this is, and it\u2019s a big mistake to even call it immigration, illegal or otherwise, because it isn\u2019t that. Real immigrants go through the process of following the law. They become citizens. They want to become Americans. They attempt to assimilate in the American culture. None of that is what\u2019s going on here and this is why people are outraged by it. People know full well what\u2019s going on. This nation is being flooded, and in the process the job market is being diluted, the wage scale is being destroyed, the welfare state is being expanded, all for the benefit of the political parties, with no benefit for the American people. <\/p>\n

And Jeb Bush, I\u2019m sorry, but this is not an act of love. This is a mass invasion of refugees and people aren\u2019t gonna accept that. They\u2019re not gonna fall for it. So here comes Trump saying what he\u2019s saying, and because people clearly realize what this is, they\u2019re standing and supporting it because they want somebody to. Now more and more people are starting to say, “My gosh, I mean, if you don\u2019t have borders, you don\u2019t have a country.” And it\u2019s true. <\/p>\n

But this isn\u2019t immigration. I don\u2019t mean to be redundant here, but I think we even get sidetracked calling it that and supposedly debating it as that because that isn\u2019t what it is, and the people behind this — and I\u2019m not talking about just the parties here. There are people outside the United States who are promoting this, say other governments, other countries that are not our friends that are promoting it, they know full well why they\u2019re promoting it and they know full well the impact it\u2019s gonna have in diluting the greatest country ever. <\/line><\/p>\n

People want to come here and become Americans, assimilate, become part of the greatest country on earth, we welcome \u2019em. We have all kinds of processes for people to follow and make it happen so that when they take that oath and they have their naturalization ceremony, they are Americans from that moment forward. None of that is going on with this, not even close. If there were border security, 90% of what Trump proposed wouldn\u2019t even be necessary, is the point. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: John Kasich on Trump\u2019s immigration plan.<\/p>\n

KASICH: I don\u2019t favor citizenship because, as I tell my daughters, you don\u2019t jump the line to go to a Taylor Swift concert, okay, you just don\u2019t do it. The idea that we would go out in cars and hunt people down, it\u2019s not doable, and secondly, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s right. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s humane.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So Kasich is saying, deport \u2019em, it isn\u2019t possible, we\u2019re not gonna do it, it\u2019s screwy, it\u2019s inhumane. Jeff Sessions, who helped Trump put together the plan, explains a little bit of it last night on Fox.<\/p>\n

SESSIONS: It\u00c2\u2019s just a mainstream plan to do what politicians have been promising to do for 30 years and haven\u2019t done. These are things like, you have — end the jobs magnet by not allowing people who are here legally to get jobs. You strengthen border enforcement. You stop the visa overstays of illegal entries into the United States of people who come on visas and overstay. These are things that he talks about in his plan that are bread and butter. Basic. And need to be done. And if we do them, we\u2019ll be surprised how dramatically we can reduce the illegality.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jeff Sessions, Alabama, helped Trump put together the plan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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