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RUSH: Anderson in Orlando, Florida, you\u2019re next, sir. Great to have you with us. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Blessed dittos from the heart of Florida, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: If they\u2019re polling these people and finding out that individually they\u2019re all happy, they must be including some illegal immigrants in that. But the reason I called is I\u2019m in the construction business here in Florida, and the people that work, the illegals that come here, I talk to them, and for one thing I\u2019ve got to disagree with some of your callers. Some of these guys aren\u2019t lowly paid. They\u2019re making 15$ an hour, sometimes they make money by the job, so they\u2019re making upwards of 20-something an hour. And when I talk to them, they\u2019re sending at least half of their money, sometimes more, back to Mexico. And I asked them about it, and it\u2019s not to support their families back there so much, it\u2019s to put it into savings so they can move back there and be one of the rich people in Mexico when they go home. And I just don\u2019t hear anybody talking about the fact that a lot of these people that are here don\u2019t want to stay here, don\u2019t want to become citizens.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, forgive me, because you may not be hearing a lot of people saying it, but I, El Rushbo, have said it, in this way. I have said everybody\u2019s missing the boat on this anyway because it\u2019s not an immigration issue. Everybody is looking at this in the context of immigration, but it\u2019s not an immigration issue. This is simply a bunch of people coming here for work. The idea that many of them don\u2019t want citizenship and will go home after they\u2019ve amassed some wealth here, probably true. Doesn\u2019t surprise me that some of them are not crazy about getting citizenship. Why would they want to go through the hassle if they\u2019re going to be made to play by the rules and so forth when it\u2019s not necessary in order to seek the primary benefit that they\u2019ve come here for, and that\u2019s a job. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re missing the boat on this in terms of the language and in terms of the way we\u2019re debating it and trying to set up policy on it. I\u2019ll tell you something that is just typical of Washington. Here we have a massive immigration reform bill debate going. We don\u2019t need any new<\/emphasize> laws. We\u2019ve got more laws in this country than you can shake a stick at. We\u2019ve got more laws than anybody in this country could possibly know. It is absurd. We had Simpson-Mazzoli in \u201986. Every 20 years we\u2019ve got to come up and reform immigration. That means we\u2019ve got to fix something that we screwed up 20 years ago. If you just used existing laws on the books in so many of these issues you wouldn\u2019t need all this rigmarole and gobbledygook.<\/p>\n

One of the things, along with all the other things, that bothers me about this is this silly notion that we can\u2019t solve these problems without government doing something and issuing some proclamation from on high. That\u2019s always been a big bugaboo of mine that people look to government. Now, in this case, it makes more sense to do that than anything else because this is something the government is specifically charged with under terms of the Constitution, and that\u2019s border security, and there isn\u2019t any. Well, it\u2019s not accurate to say there isn\u2019t any, but it\u2019s not being taken seriously. Immigration is when people come here to become Americans, and they go through a process, and they start out small, and they work their way up. It\u2019s the story of how people became successful in this country and established family legacies and so forth, a lot of people, not just recently, but from the founding days of the country. That\u2019s not what\u2019s happening here. Real immigrants come here, learn the language, they assimilate, they acculturate, they seek to become part of the distinct American culture that exists here. That\u2019s not what\u2019s happening with all of this. And for otherwise bright people to look at this and just consider it an immigration issue is to miss the point of what\u2019s really going on. <\/p>\n

So, if you\u2019re not willing or if you\u2019re unable to accurately define the problem before you set out to solve it, then you\u2019re not going to solve the problem. You\u2019re going to window dress it or you\u2019re going to paper it over or you\u2019re going to take action that\u2019s designed to mollify people for a while and punt it, only to have to come back and fix it later. Classic example of that? The Gang of 14 when it comes to judicial nominations. Because at some point the Democrats are going to filibuster a judge again, and this whole thing is going to have to be dealt with at some point, but they punted it with the Gang of 14. This is punting the issue. What they\u2019re doing here is punting the issue while making it worse, because they don\u2019t really understand what this is about. It\u2019s the job market being flooded, it\u2019s not about immigration, as our last caller\u2019s story indicates.<\/p>\n

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