{"id":12217,"date":"2013-06-11T18:04:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T18:04:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-06-11T18:04:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T18:04:23","slug":"a_dose_of_reality_on_immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/06\/11\/a_dose_of_reality_on_immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dose of Reality on Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Get this, folks. This story just cleared the Washington Examiner. The Senate\u2019s comprehensive immigration bill is set for a procedural vote later today, the cloture vote. And “lawmakers still have not resolved a thorny problem under which the bill –” get ready for this “– would effectively encourage employers to hire newly legalized immigrants over American citizens as a way of avoiding Obamacare\u00c2\u2019s taxes.”<\/p>\n

Now, you say, well, how can that be? That doesn\u2019t makes sense. Let me ‘splain it to you. Provisional illegal immigrants can get preference in employment over full American citizens. Here\u2019s why. As provisional citizens, they are not qualified to get Obamacare. So they can be hired and there are no fines to pay because they\u2019re not qualified. So my question, is this an intended consequence or indented? Here\u2019s the relevant pull quote from the story. <\/p>\n

“Under the existing Senate immigration bill, immigrants who have been in the United States illegally can obtain a provisional legal status after paying fines and meeting certain preconditions. But this population would have to wait at least 13 years to be able to obtain full citizenship, and it isn\u00c2\u2019t until then that they could qualify for government benefits such as Obamacare.” <\/p>\n

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Therefore, it would make far more sense for an employer to hire one of these newly provisional, formally illegal immigrants, because he doesn\u2019t have to give \u2019em health care. They\u2019re not entitled to it. So he doesn\u2019t have to buy it for \u2019em. And he wouldn\u2019t have to pay a fine. I\u2019m not making this up. It\u2019s in the Senate bill that\u2019s gonna be voted on today, procedural vote, cloture vote. <\/p>\n

Now, here\u2019s the little dose of reality. This 13-year business, you know and I know that that isn\u2019t gonna hold up. That\u2019s just in there to have some chance of this bill being passed. Cause I\u2019ll tell you exactly what\u2019s gonna happen. If this happens to get passed with this 13-year waiting period, within six hours of Obama signing the bill, Chuck Schumer is gonna find the nearest camera and microphone, and he\u2019s going to start wailing and moaning about how unfair that provision is. Thirteen years to be able to be a full fledged citizen, after we have just made them legal? Thirteen years? That\u2019s inhumane. That\u2019s unfair. We may as well allow them to become citizens and vote tomorrow. <\/p>\n

I guarantee you that\u2019s the design. I guarantee you that is an unspoken objective or goal. This business of having these newly legal provisionally legal immigrants wait 13 years for all the goodies of citizenship, you have to be born on a turnip truck to think that that\u2019s gonna hold up. This is another reason why it won\u2019t hold up. Six hours, maybe fewer than six hours, maybe six minutes. I mean, Chuck Schumer will leave the signing ceremony at the White House, and he\u2019ll find the nearest camera outside the driveway, and he\u2019ll start talking about how unfair this 13 years is and he doesn\u2019t know how it ended up in the bill. But it\u2019s unfair. It\u2019s unjust. It\u2019s un-American. It\u2019s discriminatory — all of these things that they know now that they\u2019re gonna say. And then public pressure will be put on \u2019cause the Democrats are gonna want these people to vote in 2014<\/a>, folks. <\/p>\n

By hook or by crook they\u2019re gonna find a way to make that happen if this bill passes. I imagine there\u2019s some Republicans in the Senate and the House listening or staff members listening, “No, no, no, you\u2019re wrong, Rush, please don\u2019t say that! That is not gonna happen, 13 years is hard and fast.” All right, I\u2019ll allow that you believe that and that that\u2019s what\u2019s intended. But I know Democrats. I know what the purpose of this amnesty bill is and there isn\u2019t one element of it that is geared toward compassion. That\u2019s a selling point, but what they\u2019re really after is votes.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll say it again. If you want to throw this bill up into total disarray, have a Republican, Jeff Sessions, somebody with instant credibility, say, “I\u2019ll support this, but they can\u2019t vote for 25 years,” and then see what happens to this bill. Then listen to the catcalls and the reaction to that. Don\u2019t make it 20, make it ten years, can\u2019t vote for 10 years and see what happens. Expose the purpose of this. Speaking of which grab sound bite number 20. Obama, again, took advantage of all the focus here on Edward Snowden, thereby taking the IRS scandal off the front page, taking Benghazi off the front page, and taking the Verizon, the metadata sweeping data off the front page. Obama had a big ceremony today leading up to the procedural vote in the Senate on immigration. This is pretty explanatory. We have three bites. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll play all three, but here\u2019s the first one.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Right now our immigration system keeps families apart for years at a time.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See?<\/p>\n

OBAMA: People who came here legally, who are ready to give it their all to earn their place in America end up waiting for years to join their loved ones here in the United States. It\u2019s not right, but that\u2019s the broken system we have today. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, it is.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Yes, they broke the rules. They didn\u2019t wait their turn. They shouldn\u2019t be let off easy, they shouldn\u2019t be allowed to game the system, but at the same time the vast majority of these individuals —<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Wait, hold it, hold it, hold it, stop the tape. Whatever comes after “but” doesn\u2019t matter. Whatever happens, whatever he said after “but” doesn\u2019t matter. Because what it means is what came before “but” is irrelevant. If you\u2019re gonna say, “Look, right now the system\u2019s broken, keeps families apart. They came here illegally, ready to give it their all to earn their place in America, end up waiting for years to join their loved ones, it isn\u2019t right, but that\u2019s the broken system we have today. Yeah, they broke the rules. They didn\u2019t wait their turn. They shouldn\u2019t be let off easy. They shouldn\u2019t be allowed to game the system, but we\u2019re gonna let it all happen anyway.” <\/p>\n

When you throw a “but” in after all that you are just canceling out everything that came before the “but.” I\u2019m not gonna waste time playing the bite, what he said after the “but” was, “But, at the same time, the vast majority of these individuals aren\u2019t looking for any trouble. They\u2019re just looking to provide for their families, contribute to their communities,” and who the hell are we to say they can\u2019t do it? Yeah, they came here illegally but, so what, yeah, they broke the rules, but so what? Yeah, they didn\u2019t wait their turn, but so what? Yeah, they shouldn\u2019t let off easy, but so what? They\u2019re not looking for trouble. They just want to contribute to their communities. <\/p>\n

You don\u2019t think after this bill gets passed, if it does, that that 13 years isn\u2019t gonna hold up? He-he. The same speech. Okay, we\u2019ve signed immigration into law, amnesty is the law of the land, but they gotta wait 13 years. Obama goes up, “Our immigration system is still broken.” Even after this comprehensive immigration reform, our system is still broken. We just made people who have been here illegally for years legal, and now we\u2019ve told them that they can\u2019t really be legal for another 13 years. <\/p>\n

All they want to do is be part of their communities. All they want to do is look to provide for their families, and how can they do that if they have to wait 13 more years? Our system is still broken. But if the 13 years holds up, employers will be motivated to hire these people because in the 13 years they\u2019re not eligible for Obamacare benefits and they\u2019re not eligible, ostensibly, for other safety net benefits. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a joke, an insult to our intelligence to say that that\u2019s gonna be held up. But the point is, I don\u2019t know if this is an intended consequence or unintended, but how do you feel and what do you think when you hear that illegal aliens, immigrants, whatever, will be given hiring preference over you because they will be cheaper? They won\u2019t qualify for health care. The employer, therefore, won\u2019t have to pay it, and the employer won\u2019t have to pay a fine because they don\u2019t have it. So the employer saves a whole lot of money. The employer doesn\u2019t have to spend all the money that Obamacare demands be spent because these people aren\u2019t eligible to receive it. Intended or unintended consequence, you decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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