{"id":222086,"date":"2017-02-17T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=222086"},"modified":"2021-09-27T11:00:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T15:00:35","slug":"we-lost-california-because-of-the-1986-immigration-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/02\/17\/we-lost-california-because-of-the-1986-immigration-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1986 Immigration Bill Flipped California"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: This is Bob in Merced, California. Great to have you with us, sir. What\u2019s shaking? What\u2019s happening? What\u2019s up?<\/p>\n

CALLER: God bless you, Mr. Limbaugh. I wanted to say mega dittos from Merced, California, a steadfast and unmovable deplorable.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, there are a bunch of them there. I happen to know.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, I just wanted to thank you for the influence that you\u2019ve had over our family. My dad turned me on to you back in the nineties. I was in my twenties, and I knew that I was a Reagan Republican, but my dad said, “No, son. We\u2019re conservatives. And if you want to understand what it means to be a conservative, you need to listen to this man Rush Limbaugh out of Sacramento.” So I started listening, and it took me a little while to understand you, being in my twenties, because of my age and so forth. But I finally did, and then I was hooked, and so you have shaped my life. My dad, myself, my three children are all now very dedicated conservatives, and now they\u2019re having children of their own, and we\u2019re believing that a fourth generation will be shaped by the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. So I want to thank you for that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s just a beautiful thing. That\u2019s wonderful. I can\u2019t thank you enough.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>CALLER: Well, my granddaughter will be reading the Rush Revere books<\/a>; I can assure you that. And I can\u2019t wait \u2019til she\u2019s old enough. She\u2019s only two. Got another one on the way. She\u2019s in the making. She\u2019ll be here in May. But anyway, I can\u2019t wait to read those books to them and shape them. But the reason I called was I was wondering if you, you know, having seen these states that have previously voted Democrat come on board with Trump, those of us in California who thought in 2012 that we had lost the country and that it was over and that there was no hope, having seen this turnaround now, even people like us here in California have some renewed hope and vigor, and I was wondering if you could offer a strategy, some advice to us here in California to maybe inspire some hope that maybe we can effect change here in California. You might even have to unfetter that other side of your brain to answer this one.<\/p>\n

RUSH: California is a huge challenge. It\u2019s easier to explain what happened to California than it is to tell you what to do to fix it. When I lived in California, 1984 to \u201987, it was a Republican state. Sacramento where I lived was 73% Democrat voter registration, when I got there. It was in the sixties when I left. We had amazing success in converting Democrats in Sacramento. But Pete Wilson, Ronald Reagan, all people elected governors and so forth, it\u2019s only been with the advent of the 1986 immigration bill that we lost California, if I might say, and now it\u2019s just gone so far left they\u2019re seriously talking about seceding. Seriously.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: We just had a call from Merced, California, a guy wanted to know ultimately what he could do, what anybody could do, what we could do to flip California, because it was just in the 1980s and prior that the Republican Party literally owned that state. Well, that\u2019s a bit far. The Democrats had the state assembly a lot of those years. But, you know, Reagan was a two-term governor, George Deukmejian, there was Pete Wilson, and even Schwarzenegger was a Republican in name, as far as party identification.<\/p>\n

\"\"You want to trace California\u2019s move to the far left, you go back to the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli bill. Simpson-Mazzoli was where we granted amnesty to, at the time, what was three and a half million illegal aliens. And that\u2019s it. We were told that would be it. We would start being strict about guarding the borders and making sure that there wasn\u2019t any more illegal immigration, but that didn\u2019t happen. That was the design. Ted Kennedy, Simpson-Mazzoli, it was their idea here and it\u2019s worked out magnificently for them to this extent.<\/p>\n

This is a Breitbart story that just was published yesterday. You ready for this headline? “Mexican Presidential Candidate Holds Anti-Trump Rally in Los Angeles.” What more needs to be said? A guy running for the presidency of Mexico, Wendy, is campaigning in Los Angeles. I\u2019m sure he\u2019s also campaigning in Mexico City, he\u2019s campaigning in Guadalajara, he\u2019s campaigning at the night of the iguana, he\u2019s campaigning at Cabo, but he\u2019s also campaigning in Los Angeles. And I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll stop in San Diego on the way back.<\/p>\n

If that doesn\u2019t say it all. And we\u2019re talking here about illegal. You know what the left has succeeded in doing, they have succeeded, in terms of the vernacular, the lexicon, they\u2019ve redefined the word “immigration” and to tell everyone we\u2019re anti-immigrant. That\u2019s one of the whole thrusts of the existence of the Democrat Party and the left, that people like you and me are anti-immigrant, as though that wall means nobody gets in, as though we don\u2019t want anybody that\u2019s not like us in here, and that\u2019s not at all the truth.<\/p>\n

\"\"We\u2019re all big believers in immigration. They think they\u2019ve got a monopoly on this silly idea that we are a nation of immigrants, America\u2019s greatness is traceable to its immigrants. I\u2019m sorry. I don\u2019t buy that as a stand-alone idea anyway because really what they\u2019re trying to say with that is that America\u2019s greatness is due to America\u2019s diversity, and that has not a thing to do with it. American Greatness is because of the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and our country.<\/p>\n

Greatness has nothing to do with diversity, skin color, race, ethnicity, nothing to do with it. And that\u2019s not a cut. The people that say diversity is the reason for the greatness are purposely assaulting the United States as founded. They want you to believe that America was only great for a few people as founded, because, as founded, America was gigantically discriminating against the poor and against people of color and against transgenders. Yeah, I\u2019ve read the Federalist Papers, you know. James Madison, he wasn\u2019t popular with the transgender group back then. Did you know that? You won\u2019t find the word. It was not a factor, the way they have attempted to modernize things here today. It\u2019s just lies.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a distinct American culture that evolved from the United States founding, and that is what made America great, is what allowed the human being to become. The United States of America was the first place on earth where average people had the opportunity to become the greatest among all people. It was the first time in human history where people were allowed to pursue the best of their abilities to whatever desire they wanted, because it was a nation founded under the concept of human beings being born free.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t anything to do with immigration. It wasn\u2019t anything to do with ethnicity. It wasn\u2019t anything to do with diversity. Diversity for diversity\u2019s sake is nothing more than affirmative action and can make no claim to being part of America\u2019s greatness. And no company can say our country is great because of our diversity. They can say it but has nothing to do with it, literally nothing to do with it, how diverse you are. “Well, it just means that we don\u2019t discriminate. It means that we value all people.” Fine and dandy. But unless your company makes something or has a service and you have an atmosphere where people working for you can become the best they can be, it doesn\u2019t matter what your workforce looks like, dummkopf.<\/p>\n

Well, this is all the distortions that we have to face now, the things that we\u2019re supposed to accept. And chief among them is that immigration means anybody who wants to come in, and we don\u2019t even have to make them a citizen. If they want to come here and live it\u2019s not for you to say they can\u2019t. You\u2019re being a bigot and a homophobe and a racist or whatever if you say that. So to them, immigration is anybody who gets in, anybody who wants to come gets in. And that\u2019s not what immigration is. That\u2019s illegal immigration. And that\u2019s what is opposed.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Richard in Santa Cruz, California. Welcome to Open Line Friday. How are you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, it\u2019s an honor to speak to you, Mr. Limbaugh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: Titan of truth and technology you are. I was calling because here in Santa Cruz — liberal Santa Cruz — they did a sweep of the notorious Central American gang MS-13, and instead of the people in Watsonville being happy to get rid of gang members, they went to city council and protested that we cooperated with Homeland Security. And they also had a big protest where 7,600 students didn\u2019t go to school, I believe it was yesterday, which cost the city there $410,000 of loss because they weren\u2019t teaching anybody anything.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, actually be benefit.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Yeah, probably. It\u2019s really quite ridiculous out here. I mean, we had the whole taking away pretty much of the Second Amendment, and even the police were totally against all the proposals that were on the ballot, people still voted for it, and they\u2019ve pretty much cracked down on freedom in California. I\u2019m a really big fan of yours. I don\u2019t think people understand how difficult it is to do your job, to take three hours and make it so entertaining, and I really appreciate all the hard work that you do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you. I appreciate that. The situation… You live in Santa Cruz. That\u2019s just got to be frustrating as hell. I mean, here you have an effort to actually get rid of illegal immigrant gang members and even the cops protest it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. The police here are really, really good. I had a personal tragedy and got to know some of the detective sergeants in the sheriff department pretty well, and they are good people.<\/p>\n

RUSH: California just is so deeply left, particularly coastal. It just is.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So I went and looked at the Santa Cruz, the Mercury News<\/a>, the newspaper out there, the article. “Chanting ‘let us speak,\u2019 some 100 or more protesters drew a temporary halt to Tuesday\u2019s Santa Cruz City Council meeting. The group came together in an outcry at the previous day\u2019s U.S. Department of Homeland Security raids across the county. The federal operation, undertaken in collaboration with local law enforcement, resulted in a series of arrests at 12 sites and federal indictment of 10 men, ages 20 to 40, believed to be associated with Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, transnational gang. The men faced charges related to conspiracy to commit extortion and possess methamphetamine with intent to distribute, with some suspected of involvement in local homicides, according to police.”<\/p>\n

The caller\u2019s point, people are protesting the rounding up of these people. And he lives there. What are we gonna do? We got these bad actors in town, international gang members, and Homeland Security comes in to sweep \u2019em off and get \u2019em out of town and so forth and the town people, and even some police, protest the action. Now, I can explain it, except that I have so many times, and I want to move on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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