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RUSH: “Immigration Bill to Bring in at Least 33 Million People, Says Group.” This is Neil Munro, the White House correspondent forced to run for his life after asking Obama a question at an outdoor Rose Garden event. This is the Daily Caller. <\/p>\n

“The pending Senate immigration bill would bring a minimum of 33 million people into the country during its first decade of operation, according to an analysis by NumbersUSA, a group that wants to slow the current immigration rate. By 2024, the inflow would include an estimated 9.2 million illegal immigrants, plus 2.5 million illegals who arrived as children — dubbed \u00c2\u2018Dreamers\u00c2\u2019 — plus roughly 3.4 million company-sponsored employees with university degrees, said the unreleased analysis.”<\/p>\n

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The number that everybody\u2019s hearing is 11 million. Now, you know, this is interesting, too, by the way. In 2007 and 2008, 2009, whenever this subject came up, amnesty, pathway to citizenship, immigration, the numbers were always 12 to 20 million. Remember that? And in some cases higher. But routinely the numbers used by the Drive-Bys, the numbers used by members of Congress, 20 million. And I remember at those times, 2007, 2008, 2009, if they\u2019re admitting 20 million, it\u2019s probably gotta be more than that. Remember, this is since 1986 and the amnesty bill then was supposed to give us border control and shut it down. <\/p>\n

So the number of illegals since 1986 is what we\u2019re talking about here. Now, all of a sudden when the Gang of Eight bill comes up, the number is 11 million? And I\u2019m sorry, I shoulda mentioned this at the beginning when I first heard this, because it didn\u2019t make sense to me. I\u2019d never heard a number that low when discussing amnesty, how many illegals are here and how many we\u2019re talking about. The number\u2019s always been between 12 and 20 million, and now all of a sudden it\u2019s just 11? I say “just 11” by virtue of comparison. But maybe we\u2019re being snowed on that number, too, just like we were snowed on the number of homeless. Three million homeless, it was 500,000 back in the late eighties, early nineties, when that was a big issue. The homeless census, find out 500,000 Americans were homeless, not three million. <\/p>\n

Well, this illegal number, 11 million, that\u2019s the smallest number anybody\u2019s ever been using. And obviously 11 million\u2019s a little more palatable than 20 million, making it easier to sell. But now this group, NumbersUSA, says over a 10-year period. We\u2019re talking about 33 million people. So right there, if that number is right, we\u2019re talking, according to polling data that exists today, out of 33 million people over 10 years, 25 million of them would be Democrats, and eight million would be Republicans. According to polling data today. <\/line><\/p>\n

So if you want to look at it that way, over 10 years, 25 million new Democrats? It\u2019s like The Politico said last week, folks, that\u2019s the end of the Republican Party. That wipes it out for a generation. The Politico wrote that story, the end of the Republican Party, grab sound bite number three. Senator McCain yesterday in Washington — this was at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast — Senator McCain talking about immigration reform.<\/p>\n

MCCAIN: I believe if we pass this legislation, it won\u2019t gain us a single Hispanic vote, but what it will do, it will put us on a playing field where we can compete. Right now we cannot compete. It is a demographic certainty that if we are — condemn ourselves to 15, 20, 25% of the Hispanic vote, we will not win elections. It will put us on a playing field where we can make an argument for a smaller government, lower taxes, less regulation, pro-life, pro-defense —<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a second.<\/p>\n

MCCAIN: — that\u2019s the argument that I think we can make to gain Hispanic support.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, all good and well, but why don\u2019t you do that now? Why do we have to wait to make those arguments until amnesty has occurred. Why can\u2019t we start talking about lowering taxes right now. We\u2019ve got the perfect opportunity for it with this Internet sales tax bill. Why not talk about less regulation now? Why not be pro-life now? Why not be pro-defense now? Why wait until amnesty for all that? Seriously. Then he says, “If we pass the legislation, we\u2019re not gonna gain a single Hispanic vote, but it will make us able to.”<\/p>\n

Does Senator McCain not know what he\u2019s doing here? Does he not know what this sounds like? Senator McCain is buying hook, line, and sinker — the only reason to do amnesty is that Hispanics don\u2019t like us, but if we do amnesty they will, and then once they like us we at least have a chance to make our case to them. But until we legalize the people who are here illegally, we can\u2019t make our case to them. Sorry. Once again, I, El Rushbo, don\u2019t get it. I do not understand this. Well, no, I do, but I mean this is all being done because McCain and the boys are being told by whoever that Hispanics hate them, because they\u2019re Republicans. And Hispanics hate them because they\u2019re Republicans, because they somehow don\u2019t want to let people skirt the law. <\/p>\n

So if we are front and center on an immigration bill which basically does pathway to citizenship, amnesty, whatever, they\u2019ll like us. And then we\u2019ll have a shot at \u2019em. But we don\u2019t even have a shot at \u2019em now because they don\u2019t even like us. You know, I came in here, I was actually feeling up and good today, and as this goes on, folks, I don\u2019t know, I\u2019m starting to lose —<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, something to point out here on amnesty, pathway to citizenship. According to the Investor\u2019s Business Daily — and we trust those guys — they point out that 40% of 12 million illegal immigrants the bill gives amnesty to are not from Mexico. They\u2019re not just Mexicans. They are foreign nationals who have overstayed their visas. And that would include tens of thousands of people. Saudis, people from Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia. And Europeans, too. Not just Mexicans that we\u2019re talking about here. The pro-amnesty people say all this is gonna make us safer. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Albert in San Jose, California. You\u2019re next on Open Line Friday. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. I had two questions regarding the immigration bill. I haven\u2019t heard a lot of people talk about it, but I know you will know the answer. Specifically, what do you think the reaction of the GOP base will be if the immigration bill is passed, and then the second question is, if they do sit out like they did the last election, what do you think the reaction of the GOP leaders will be? Thanks, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, the first question, just so you know, Ted Cruz is right. The amnesty bill, the piece of legislation that\u2019s sponsored by the Gang of Eight is not supposed to pass right now. What\u2019s supposed to happen is, it\u2019s supposed to sail through the Democrat House, then reach the Republican controlled House and be voted down, at which time Obama and the Democrats begin campaigning for the House in 2014 by claiming the Republicans hate Mexicans, hate Hispanics, hate freedom. They\u2019re mean-spirited, racist, sexist, all this kind of stuff. That was also supposed to happen with the gun control bill. <\/p>\n

The gun control bill is supposed to sail through the Senate, and then the Republicans in the House were supposed to defeat it so the Democrats could say the Republicans love guns, they love murder, they love people getting killed, they love the NRA, blah, blah. But the Democrats confounded them. Now, if amnesty were to be passed — and, by the way, Albert, who cares about the GOP base anyway? If people cared about the GOP base, this wouldn\u2019t even be up for discussion. Because if amnesty passes, there will be no GOP. That\u2019s it. The base will disintegrate, in terms of support for the Republican Party. And, even if the base doesn\u2019t, you\u2019ve got millions of new Democrat voters. It\u2019s Republican Party suicide. I don\u2019t understand any of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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