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RUSH: I have a question here. How many of the illegals actually to want become citizens versus how many of them just want to become legal? Well, it\u2019s important to know, ladies and gentlemen. We\u2019ll delve into this as soon as we play the Star-Spangled Banner, the Star Spanglish Banner actually we call it here. This is by Jos&eacute; and the Illegals. Not required that you stand. <\/p>\n

(Playing of Star Spanglish Banner.) <\/p>\n

The Star Spanglish Banner there, a cappella version by Jos&eacute; and the Illegals. All right. (Laughing.) <\/p>\n

How many illegals want to become citizens, how many of them just want to become legal? It\u2019s important to know, and it\u2019s the question nobody asks about illegal immigration. How many of them want to become citizens versus just want to become legal? Senator Kennedy, you\u2019re the expert on immigration. Perhaps you could tell us? Senator McCain, you know more about the issue than F-ing anyone else. Maybe you could tell us. How many illegals want to become citizens and how many just want to become legal? And, by the way, round numbers. We don\u2019t have to make this that specific. I\u2019ll tell you why I ask this, because it shows there are quite a few questions we should ask and quite a few answers we should have before we dive headlong into what they are calling immigration reform. And, by the way, I said dive headlong rather than rush headlong because I don\u2019t want my name to become an issue in this, folks. I know it\u2019s rush headlong. I put dive, keep me out of this. How many illegals want to become legal? We don\u2019t know the breakdown so let\u2019s use the wisdom of Solomon. Let\u2019s split the illegals in half. Let\u2019s say half of them want to become citizens and half want to become only legal. What does this new bipartisan bill propose? Well, it proposes a new ID card, the Z visa. It makes illegals legal overnight, something that very few people are talking about. The $5,000 fine, that\u2019s only applicable if the illegals seek citizenship. But if they don\u2019t seek citizenship there\u2019s no $5,000 fine, there\u2019s no heading back to the home country to get back in line. <\/p>\n

So if this bill becomes law as written, yesterday illegal, today legal, shazam. There\u2019s no so-called road to citizenship here, no alleged eight- to 13-year wait, there\u2019s no steep fine, whether it\u2019s 5,000 or $500 does not affect them. There\u2019s no touchback, meaning heading to the back of the line. There is no line because they\u2019re legal! I know I\u2019ve been making this point for the past week, but I wanted to illustrate it in this fashion. What does citizenship mean? Citizenship is irrelevant to this. While the Drive-By Media focused on a distracting debate — is it amnesty or is not amnesty, is it anti-immigration or is it xenophobia — the reality is that all illegals become legal whether they opt for citizenship or not. The question we have to ask now, do Senator Kennedy and Senator McCain know this? Was Senator Kennedy wrong for the ninth time in 42 years on this issue? Yet he\u2019s held up as the elite expert, the lion who\u2019s making sure his final days are being put to the best use possible, for the goodness of America. He\u2019s been wrong on this nine times. Was Senator McCain outfoxed like he was with campaign finance reform? <\/p>\n

Now, if you are for this alleged reform, the least you could do to make your case is to say that these uneducated, unskilled illegals are one heck of a lot smarter than some of our best and brightest senators. Maybe our guys should jump the border, pick up some street smarts on the other side, and then come back. Who\u2019s outfoxing who here? You might be saying, ‘Well, Rush, what\u2019s it matter? What\u2019s the big deal, path to citizenship?\u2019 Well, path to citizenship means that you want to become an American. It means that you\u2019re interested in assimilating in the great American culture, becoming part of it and expanding it, passing it on to your own family, your kids and so forth. If you just want to become legal, then there\u2019s no assimilation, there\u2019s no desire to, quote, unquote, become Americans, be here legal so you don\u2019t have the sigma of being illegal. This whole business of the rule of law, people are trying to pooh-pooh this illegal — ah, the Drive-Bys and the elites, politicians are all saying, ‘We\u2019re not going to deport 12 million people, gotta fix this somehow. Illegal, that\u2019s a bad way to look at it.\u2019 No, it\u2019s not. No, it\u2019s not. <\/p>\n

When you grant 12, 20 million, whatever the number, a virtual exemption from American law in one regard, then you are just telling them that they\u2019re exempt from a number of other laws that they might break down the road, which Heather Mac Donald has documented to be taking place in Maywood, California, 96% Latino. Let me read this. George Will. I\u2019ll just read this to you again. ‘Affirming the rule of law is, however, where to begin because when a large and somewhat cohesive cohort succeeds in living in defiance of the law, the scofflaw spirit can have myriad manifestations. Writing in last summer\u2019s City Journal, Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute gave a sobering example: ‘Protecting one form of lawbreaking may require protecting others as well. The city of Maywood in Los Angeles County declared itself a sanctuary zone for illegal aliens this year. Then it got rid of its drunk-driving checkpoints, because they were nabbing too many illegal aliens. Next, this 96 percent Latino city, almost half of whose adult population lacks a ninth-grade education, disbanded its police traffic division entirely, so that illegals wouldn\u2019t need to worry about having their cars towed for being unlicensed.”<\/p>\n

So if you\u2019re going to say they\u2019re illegal and you\u2019re going to make \u2019em legal and you\u2019re doing this on the basis that these are God\u2019s people, these are salt of the earth people, these people the future of the American economy, well, if you\u2019ve granted them legal status and they continue to break the law, you can\u2019t have that because at some point you may have to send them back. I mean, they\u2019ve become felons. So you gotta exempt them from all other laws. In the meantime, other Americans are being held to these very laws that the Latinos are being exempt from here in Maywood, California, and a lot of other places. Drunk driving checkpoints disbanded, no police traffic division so they don\u2019t have to worry about their cars being towed for being unlicensed. Meanwhile, other people are being picked up and charged and put in jail for similar offenses. And you think that\u2019s going to go down? You think the American people are going to put up with that? If you think the fireworks on this are hot and heavy now — and they are — wait until if this thing actually gets signed into law, then you\u2019re going to see what a powder keg erupting nationwide looks like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I have a question here. How many of the illegals actually to want become citizens versus how many of them just want to become legal? Well, it\u2019s important to know, ladies and gentlemen. We\u2019ll delve into this as soon as we play the Star-Spangled Banner, the Star Spanglish Banner actually we call it here. 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