{"id":12650,"date":"2013-04-18T17:53:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T17:53:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-04-18T17:53:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T17:53:34","slug":"this_immigration_bill_just_makes_no_sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/04\/18\/this_immigration_bill_just_makes_no_sense\/","title":{"rendered":"This Immigration Bill Just Makes No Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Marco Rubio. I know a lot of people are hammering Senator Rubio<\/a>, understandably so. People are hammering Senator Rubio because they think the bill wouldn\u2019t go anywhere without a Republican in this Gang of Eight propelling it. There are some who say that this bill wouldn\u2019t have a prayer if, for example, the front man were Senator Schumer — and therefore, Senator Schumer isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

This is Rich Lowry\u2019s theory today in Politico, that Senator Schumer has pulled a masterful maneuver here by securing a Republican to go get what he wants (i.e., in this immigration bill). I happen to like Senator Rubio very much. He\u2019s a force of nature. He\u2019s a force of energy. Folks, he is a genuine conservative and full-throatedly, full-heartedly, wholeheartedly believes in it. He really does. The bill itself, however? I\u2019m never gonna understand it. I\u2019m never gonna understand the thinking here.<\/p>\n

He says that he\u2019s not motivated politically, and that\u2019s fine. But (chuckles) most of the Republican Party is motivated totally, only by politics. They\u2019re buying hook, line, and sinker — from the Democrats and the media — “You guys better reach out to Hispanics or you\u2019re never gonna win anything! You better make the Hispanics like you.” So they\u2019re doing that. Well, okay. If you do that, if everything you do is “outreach” to Hispanics, how do you ever tell \u2019em no?<\/p>\n

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If the objective is to make Hispanics like you and you turn yourself into Santa Claus, then how do you turn yourself into Scrooge someday when you have to? You can\u2019t. Also, the idea that the 11 million or whatever the number is will be quote\/unquote legalized, but they won\u2019t be able to vote for a while? We all know what Senator Schumer and the Democrats are going to do. Let\u2019s say that this happens exactly as Senator Rubio spells it out.<\/p>\n

Within two months, Senator Schumer and the Democrats are gonna run to the microphones and cameras and they\u2019re gonna start tugging at people\u2019s heartstrings by saying, “How in the world can we be so cruel as to not let them vote? We\u2019ve just legalized them. We\u2019ve just welcomed them to our country. We\u2019ve just created a pathway to citizenship for them. They are paying taxes, and they\u2019re working. It\u2019s unconscionable that they can\u2019t vote.” And — voila! — they\u2019ll be able to vote.<\/p>\n

Then, the fact that 70% of them vote Democrat becomes relevant. The fact that after the \u201986 amnesty… There\u2019s no doubt. There\u2019s a correlation. We passed the \u201986 amnesty, and the Republican Party lost California. Some of you are not old enough to recall it. The Republican Party used to own California. The Republican Party used to define it. Politically they used to own it, very close to it. The \u201986 amnesty was the beginning of the end, and it\u2019s gone now. It\u2019s literally gone.<\/p>\n

Republicans are simply outnumbered. It can be birth, it can be any number of things, but regardless. They lost, and there are legitimate fears that the same thing is gonna happen to the country, that Republicans\/conservatives are gonna end up just be outnumbered. Regardless the birthrate, it\u2019s mathematics. It\u2019s not even ideology or politics. It\u2019s just mathematics, and there are people scratching their heads and looking at the Republican leadership and asking, “Why in the world…?”<\/p>\n

It goes to the thing I was asking him about. When Democrats propose something, why do we have to accept it and then offer alternatives? Why can\u2019t we just say, no? Why can\u2019t we just opposed it? What would have happened if we\u2019d really tried to oppose Obamacare? I mean, we opposed their gun control efforts. The NRA does that, not the Republican Party. The NRA does that. But we get to the point that, after all the efforts they make, only 4% of the American people support Obama and Obama wants.<\/p>\n

Only 4% support immigration the way Obama wants. I mean, the Republican Party is sitting on two gold mines here. They\u2019re sitting on two great, tremendous opportunities. Ninety-five to 96% of the American people oppose “path to citizenship,” amnesty, or what have you. The Republican Party is sitting on a golden opportunity to define itself, to demark itself, to contrast itself with the Democrat Party — with 96% of the people already on their side before they do anything!<\/p>\n

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All they\u2019ve gotta do is agree with what 96% of the people already think. Instead, the Republican leadership has bought into the idea — and, by the way, this is not an anti-Hispanic point of view at all. People that vote Democrat, I don\u2019t care who they are, they vote Democrat. Why in the world do you think you\u2019re gonna…? Chuck Schumer wants something. He wants it so bad he can taste it. So why should we? I don\u2019t get it. I\u2019ve never agreed with Chuck Schumer on anything. Why should I on this?<\/p>\n

The Democrats are salivating over this, just like they\u2019re salivating on gun control. The answer is, as I was told Tuesday night, “We\u2019re never gonna win unless we reach out to Hispanics! We\u2019re never gonna win another election if we don\u2019t reach out to the Hispanics!” Well, they\u2019re 7% of the electorate. “Yeah, but that\u2019s gonna grow, Rush! That number\u2019s gonna grow.” Well, but they\u2019re only 7% now, so people just don\u2019t understand. They look at the Republican leadership and do not understand.<\/p>\n

“Sen. Jeff Sessions warns that passing the Senate immigration reform bill would have devastating effects on the US job market and fiscal outlook.” Senator Sessions, a Republican from Alabama, says that the immigration reform bill “opens up citizenship to recent arrivals and, remarkably, millions who overstayed their visas. It even opens up citizenship to those who have been deported from the country,” meaning they can qualify.<\/p>\n

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Because of that, because of the opening up of citizenship, “The bill would, thus, increase the unfunded liability of Obamacare by $2 trillion and of Medicare\/Social Security by $2.5 trillion,” because all of these people will qualify as being covered by Obamacare. Senator Rubio said, “We would never keep somebody who could throw the baseball 99 miles an hour out of the country.” True. The New York Yankees would be the first team trying to get whoever that would be.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not who we\u2019re talking about here.<\/p>\n

That kind of immigration we do need to increase.<\/p>\n

Our immigration system is so whacked, those are the people who are limited. What is that, the H-1B visa or what it is? The visas for the equivalent of the guy that can throw a 99-mile-an-hour fastball or the high-tech geniuses, the high-tech grads, those are the people having trouble getting in. That\u2019s where the relaxation needs to be taking place. But you can\u2019t discount the role of Big Business. Big Business is seeing a huge pool of unskilled and therefore cheap labor in bad, questionable economic times.<\/p>\n

So there are a number of different forces arrayed here, and the forces arrayed to oppose this on ideological grounds seem to be vastly outnumbered and overwhelmed. The fact that what happened to California could happen to the country doesn\u2019t seem to matter to a lot of people. “Who cares if they\u2019re Republicans or Democrats? I don\u2019t care what they are. What\u2019s the difference anyway? We just need these low-skill workers,” or whatever is the reason they support it.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s outreach to Hispanics so they don\u2019t hate us, so they don\u2019t dislike us.”<\/p>\n

The Republican Party\u2019s made up of a lot of people who think that way as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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