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RUSH: I\u2019ve got a couple immigration things but I want to mention one thing that\u2019s brewing out there. Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson from Georgia, both Republicans, Chambliss who, by the way, was in the original wave of Republicans supporting Ted Kennedy and others on the bill, the immigration bill, sort of did a 180 yesterday, put out a press release saying they talked to their constituents in Georgia and said the real concern is border security. They urged the president to put up an emergency supplemental to get something done on the border and a lot of people are telling the president this now, and we have to be very careful here, folks. I want to put out the possibility here that that might happen. There might actually be a bill, because they want this. Your elected officials, the White House, want this bill, and they want amnesty. <\/p>\n

All you have to do is look at this bill to understand that. There\u2019s really no effort to stem the flow, and particularly the Democrat Party, the purpose of this is to have a never-ending flow of low skilled, uneducated, poor people pouring into the country for the express purpose of providing cheap labor and potentially new union members. The second thing is all these new voters who are going to become controllable and totally dependent, the Democrats running out of victims. So the idea that they\u2019re going to fix the amnesty portion of this is something I don\u2019t think is going to happen, but somebody may come up with an idea here: ‘Okay, we can stem some of the tide out there; we can alleviate some of the anger; we can buy some time here if we just come up with a supplemental bill that says we\u2019re going to build a fence, or really enhance border security somehow.\u2019 That might happen. I\u2019m not going to predict it for certain here, but I won\u2019t be surprised if it does come up with some bill, an emergency supplemental spending total claiming to enhance security, thinking that this will buy you off, and then follow it pretty closely with probably a new rewritten bill, but it will still be an amnesty bill. So the point is to be very careful here and continue to pay attention because it\u2019s obvious this is something they all want, and they\u2019re busy now trying to figure out how they can get it done in the face of all this opposition. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Lawrenceburg, North Carolina, and Mark. You\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. It\u2019s an honor to speak with you.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I just find it ironic that when we have these street demonstrations in favor of amnesty, we have 10,000 people show up with Mexican flags, that\u2019s characterized as a great grassroots movement. But when hundreds of thousands of phone calls and faxes flood Washington, that\u2019s a right-wing bigoted conspiracy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. You\u2019re referring to Senator Feinstein\u2019s comments?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m referring to everybody\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Senator Feinstein on Sunday said she has never received more racist, hate-filled phone calls and e-mails in her 15 years in the Senate from opponents of the immigration bill. What you observed is easily understood. These people that you see in the tens of thousands waving Mexican flags, why, they fit the prism. When Democrats look through the prism, everybody like that\u2019s a victim, they\u2019re just trying to come out of the shadows, all they want is a shot at a decent life. We ought to be honored they\u2019ve chosen our country, blah, blah, blah. On the other side, when Feinstein goes out and tries to characterize the opponents of this as racists and bigots and people filled with rage, I\u2019m telling you that\u2019s just to give cover for the next time the bill comes up. Because they know the same number of phone calls are going to come in, maybe more, and they know they\u2019re going to be passionate, and so the Feinstein comment is to allow other senators to say, ‘Well, yeah, we\u2019re getting a lot of phone calls, of course we are, but you ought to hear them, a bunch of racists and nativists and bigots. Not a majority of the country, small group of people calling 25 and 30 time each. We don\u2019t have to listen to these people. We know that the majority of the people are with us on this.\u2019 That\u2019s all her comment is about. It\u2019s setting it up the next time to be able to disregard all of you who plan on calling and continue to e-mail as chump change, wackos, fanatics, not worth listening to.<\/p>\n

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To Cliff in New York City, great to have you with us, sir. Thank you for waiting.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, I am black; I\u2019m an immigrant; and I am conservative. <\/p>\n

RUSH: (applauding)<\/p>\n

CALLER: I agree with your position entirely on this immigration bill, but there\u2019s also, to me, a racial component to this thing, because I personally know of several people, legal immigrants, who committed crimes. Some of them were white-collar crimes, and they were deported. Their green card status was rescinded, and they were sent back to their own country. So I\u2019m trying to figure out how is it that they are allowing so many immigrants here who have criminal records. It seems to me the fact that they\u2019re —<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s not ‘allow.\u2019 It\u2019s ‘want.\u2019 Look, that may sound harsh but I\u2019m going to tell you why I say that. A senator proposed — Who was it? <\/p>\n

CALLER: The senator from Texas, yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes. He proposed an amendment to deport those who are here with criminal backgrounds, and the Senate defeated it! It was the Cornyn amendment, and they defeated it!<\/p>\n

CALLER: But there already is a law, and based on that law, they have deported several black people that I know, all black.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, look, I happen to agree with you on this. I think for Feinstein to run around and talk about how there are racists and bigots and nativists and restrictionists and all this in the anti-amnesty crowd, the fact is that there is a clear racial preference on the part of this immigration bill for Mexicans, for Hispanics.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely!<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s no question about it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, thanks, Rush. That\u2019s my point.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, Cliff, you made it well, and I as a good host amplified it, thereby cementing it in the minds of the audience.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I appreciate it, Rush.<\/p>\n

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