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RUSH: Here\u2019s Mike in Longmont, Colorado<\/a>. You\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/line>CALLER: Hi, Rush. Glad to speak with you. Look, it\u2019s sort of like our legislators have declared war on us, and us being the people who basically are supposed to be the bosses of the country — ha-ha — but in the meantime, try this one on for size. No immigration without assimilation, because that covers all the bases and that\u2019s the big issue right now. These folks want to come here, use, abuse, drain until it turns pale white this country and send their monies back to Mexico, et cetera. I have no problem with legal immigration. I have no problem with legal immigrants. They come to this country and make a contribution. They become citizens, assimilation. That isn\u2019t what these people are after. And what they\u2019re after is more than illegal. It\u2019s immoral because it\u2019s designed to destroy our country.<\/line> RUSH: Hang on just a second. Just a second. I need to find something here, you\u2019ve just reminded me, and I want to do it live rather than go get the tape. The morning update that ran today, I brought it up with me from Florida somewhere here. I have to find it. I\u2019ll locate it during the break, and again I want to do it live. I\u2019ll not tell you right now what it was that you triggered in me that leads to this. I want to respond to something else that you said in your call. You said, “No immigration without assimilation.” Let me repeat again, just so nobody misunderstands. There are two groups of Hispanic immigrants that we are talking about. There\u2019s the group that\u2019s following the legal pathway, and then there\u2019s the illegal group. The illegal group is what we are all concerned about here, and the lack of any attention or concern to it. Number one, it represents a huge problem border security-wise. There doesn\u2019t seem to be any focus on securing and shoring up the border. But beyond that, that second group has no intention of assimilating. That\u2019s the point. <\/line><\/p>\n

Politicians in Washington don\u2019t care. That\u2019s not at all what they\u2019re concerned about. They only see masses and masses of new voters down the road, both parties are looking at it that way, and they\u2019re looking at it as if they\u2019re afraid to offend any of these people or their counterparts anywhere else for fear that it will be taken against them, taken out on them at the polls. This business of assimilation, when you talk about the legal pathway to immigration and the traditional stories we all know from Europe, eastern and western Europe, southern Europe, China and the Asian community, Pacific Rim. Mexico is different in this regard. All those people that left far-away lands knew full well they were coming to America, they wanted to become Americans, and that\u2019s what immigration required of them. They learned the language. We did not have to change any language laws in order accommodate them. They came and became Americans. Well, Mexico is just, depending on where you are, a couple feet away. It\u2019s not like there is a long journey and you\u2019re giving up a culture and abandoning it. You\u2019re just dropping across the border for a job. You\u2019re coming here for work because your own country is so pathetic, that they have a policy that believes in a permanent underclass of low-paid workers as a means of supporting the elite, and they\u2019re never going to change that. <\/line>So you have the illegal community, not even immigrants, that\u2019s the thing nobody\u2019s facing here, particularly in Washington. This is not an immigration problem. This is a flood America with low, uneducated job applicants from one particular country, Mexico, and maybe other Latin-American countries have a percentage of it, but there\u2019s no attempt to assimilate. That\u2019s not why they\u2019re here. They\u2019re not here to become Americans. They\u2019re here looking for jobs. I\u2019m sure many of them think at some point they\u2019re going to go back home. When they get here they find out, “Wow, this is place is even better than we heard,” and they don\u2019t leave. Now, when I say this, I\u2019m not commenting on the character of these people when I talk about they\u2019re not here to assimilate. I am not saying that as a group that they are deficient in character or anything else, but they are who they are. They\u2019re uneducated, they\u2019re not immigrants, and they\u2019re not trying to become Americans.<\/line><\/p>\n

They are simply coming here looking for work. They do it illegally. They have just had their behavior sanctioned, just had it approved. In fact, they have become the primary focus of both political parties when it comes to outreach for voters. This is not about immigration. This is not about assimilation. It\u2019s not about them becoming part of our culture. Washington isn\u2019t looking at it that way; the president isn\u2019t looking at it that way; Karl Rove is not looking at it that way; Dingy Harry is not looking at it that way; Bill Frist isn\u2019t — nobody in Washington is looking at it that way. Well, when I say nobody, I\u2019m talking about the Senate right now. The House is a different ball of wax and you do have some hardball characters over there, Tom Tancredo. But this action today is — and I\u2019ve known this was coming, by the way, but it just confirms for me that this is not going to be solved. <\/line>The problem is not going to be solved. We have just sanctioned this. In fact, it\u2019s going to get worse. We think we\u2019ve got 11 to 12 million illegals now, this is going to be nothing by the time we get to 2036 or 2030. We\u2019re doing nothing to stem the tide. Doing just the opposite, <\/a> and a bunch of members of the Senate, many of whom aren\u2019t going to be around to reap the rewards of their action today, have that as a bit of solace. They don\u2019t have to worry about paying the price for this down the road at the polls, because they\u2019re not going to be around. Many of them are Jurassic Parks already anyway. It\u2019s cowardice, it\u2019s fear, it\u2019s selfish, and it is arrogance, and it\u2019s elitism. And when you add all this up and then you still hear those people call us nativists or racists or what have you — that and we\u2019re accused of being uncivil in the debate. <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>All right, immigration proposals under discussion. Let me add mine to the mix. I want to call this proposal the Limbaugh Laws. Here they are. First, if you immigrate to the United States of America, you must speak the native language. You have to be a professional or an investor. We are not going to take unskilled workers. You will not be allowed. There will be no special bilingual programs in the schools, no special ballots for elections, no government business will be conducted in your native language. Foreigners will not have the right to vote, I don\u2019t care how long they are here, nor will they ever be allowed to hold political office. According to the Limbaugh Laws, if you\u2019re in our country, you cannot be a burden to taxpayers. You are not entitled, ever, to welfare, to food stamps, or other government goodies. You can come if you invest here, but it must be an amount equal to 40,000 times the daily minimum wage. If you don\u2019t know have that amount of money, you can\u2019t come and invest. You have to stay home. If you do come and you want to buy land, okay, but we\u2019re going to restrict your options. You will not be allowed to buy waterfront property in the United States. That will be reserved for citizens naturally born in this country. <\/line><\/p>\n

In fact, as a foreigner, you must relinquish individual rights to property. These are the Limbaugh Laws. Another thing. You don\u2019t have the right to protest when you come here. You\u2019re allowed no demonstrations, you cannot wave a foreign flag, no political organizing, no bad-mouthing our president or his policies, or you get sent home. You\u2019re a foreigner. You shut your mouth or you get out, and if you come here illegally, you go straight to jail and we\u2019re going to hunt you down \u2019til we find you. <\/line>I can imagine many of you think that the Limbaugh Laws are pretty harsh. I imagine today some of you probably are going, “Yeah! Yeah!” Well, let me tell you this, folks. Every one of the laws I just mentioned are actual laws of Mexico, today. I just read you Mexican immigration law. That\u2019s how the Mexican government handles immigrants to their country. Yet Mexicans and others come here illegally, they protest in our streets, they get on our welfare program, and we have members of the United States Senate, both parties, doing handstands and back flips, going through every contortion possible to allow it to continue so that it doesn\u2019t make these people mad, resulting in votes against these linguini-spined populations. <\/line>This is more than a double standard. It is an indication of just how gutless people in charge in this country are to protect the identity of this country. They don\u2019t care about border security, I know the ports deal notwithstanding, they\u2019re not doing a thing to shore up the border, because that might make somebody mad. It\u2019s a good thing there are a whole lot of Arab voters in this country or the port deal would have gone through, too. <\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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