{"id":304581,"date":"2019-03-29T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=304581"},"modified":"2019-04-01T14:24:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T18:24:30","slug":"trump-threatens-to-shut-down-the-southern-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/03\/29\/trump-threatens-to-shut-down-the-southern-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Threatens to Shut Down the Southern Border"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Okay. Last night I was on the Hannity show. I was on Bret Baier, Special Report with Bret Baier<\/a>, for two segments: Eight minutes, commercial break, and then four minutes. I was on Hannity for a little longer, and the last commercial break, Hannity said (summarized exchange), “I need to hold you over. Can I hold you over for one more break?” I said, “I had planned to smoke a cigar by now.”<\/p>\n

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He said, “Well, you can wait a while.” I said, “No, I\u2019m not gonna wait. I\u2019m gonna light it up during a commercial break.” He said, “Okay. I\u2019m sure it\u2019s American.” I didn\u2019t say anything. He came back from the commercial break and Hannity<\/a> said, “You say we have to defeat them in 2020. Well, 2020 is right around the corner. How, Rush? How do we beat them?”<\/p>\n

BEGIN ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think the president should shut the border. If he shuts the border and builds the wall, there is nobody, Sean, that can beat him in 2020. It remains the issue for the vast majority of freedom-loving, Constitution-loving, American-loving citizens. If it doesn\u2019t happen, the country that we know and love\u2026 There\u2019s always gonna be an America, but it\u2019s not gonna remain a constitutional republic as founded if we don\u2019t get a handle on this.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s nothing about these people that makes them bad. It\u2019s the rule of law. Once you allow people to break the law, once you signal lawlessness is okay, then where does it stop? These people are not being conditioned to assimilate. The Democrats don\u2019t want \u2019em to assimilate! The Democrats want to keep them poor, want to keep them dependent so they will always vote Democrat. The Democrats are not compassionate people.<\/p>\n

The Democrats need a permanent underclass. They want these people to come in here, remain in power, remain in need. If they\u2019re gonna be here, let\u2019s turn them into productive people that can help this country grow. But right now, we\u2019ve got to stop the flow \u2014 and if Trump does that, Sean, with a wall or shutting the border for a little while to make sure we get a handle on those who are in the country now, nobody can beat him.<\/p>\n

END ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n

RUSH: Just moments ago, while the president was touring Lake Okeechobee with Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida… They were taking a tour around the aging Herbert Hoover Dike. Did you know there was a dike at Lake Okeechobee named after Herbert Hoover? Well, there is, and they were taking a tour around it \u2019cause it\u2019s aging out there, and this is what President Trump said about the crisis at the southern border.<\/p>\n

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THE PRESIDENT: Mexico\u2019s tough. They can stop \u2019em but they chose not to. Now they\u2019re gonna stop \u2019em. And if they don\u2019t stop \u2019em, we\u2019re closing the border, close it, and we\u2019ll keep it closed for a long time. I\u2019m not playing games.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well! Well! So the president said mere moments ago that he\u2019s gonna close the border and he\u2019s not playing games. I mentioned this both on Bret Baier\u2019s show and Hannity\u2019s last night, and I\u2019m amazed that every time I mention it the number of people who are surprised and don\u2019t know it, and it\u2019s why I continue to mention it.<\/p>\n

We as a nation stopped, we shut down legal immigration, all immigration from the early 1920s through 1965. We just shut it down. Now, people got in. I mean there are people that applied on special exemption purposes. It was not zero admissions, but, I mean, we actively shut down immigration as a policy for 40 plus years. The reason for it was that there had been so many people emigrate legally in the late 1800s through the early 1900s when Ellis Island was going bananas. The reason we did was to assimilate all of those people.<\/p>\n

Those people came to this country desirous of becoming Americans. But they were from all over the world. They knew they wanted to come here, they had dreams of coming here, they knew about America, but they had to learn it being here. And they wanted to become citizens. There are things that you have to be able to learn and pass on a test to become citizens.<\/p>\n

They did not sacrifice their origins and they, in many cases in the big cities, set up neighborhoods based on their nationality. Irish neighborhoods, Italian neighborhoods, Polish neighborhoods, you name it. But they wanted to become Americans. They wanted to escape whatever poverty, unfairness, totalitarianism, whatever you want to call it, they wanted freedom. And if you\u2019ve never had freedom, it\u2019s a shock to your system. Requires a lot of self-reliance, self-determination. And assimilating people in any country if you move anywhere and want to become part of that country, assimilation is part of it.<\/p>\n

The purpose of immigration is to make immigrants, in our case, Americans. We don\u2019t want them coming here and Balkanizing and separating themselves from Americans and having their own neighborhoods, not learning the language. If they don\u2019t learn the language they\u2019re never gonna get a job, they\u2019re never gonna get an education. All of these things have to happen. We shut down immigration for 40 years to handle the load that had come in and to assimilate them.<\/p>\n

Now, it\u2019s interesting. In 1965, it was Senator Kennedy and the Democrats who made the move to reopen immigration. And from the moment they did, it always had a political objective, not a national objective, not a patriotic objective, but a political one. And we opened the floodgates in 1965 and illegal immigration soon began thereafter.<\/p>\n

It was not that it wasn\u2019t happening, but excusing it and allowing it and then accommodating it began in earnest. And by the time 1986 came around, there were by count three point-some-odd-million illegal immigrants. And it was roiling our culture then like it is now.<\/p>\n

\"\"So Alan Simpson and a counterpart in the House, Democrat named Mazzoli came up with a piece of legislation called Simpson-Mazzoli, and it was an amnesty bill. It granted amnesty to what at the time were said to be 3.1 or 3.6 million illegal immigrants. And everybody promised back in 1986, they promised Ronaldus Magnus, if you sign this, then this ends it. We\u2019re gonna control the border and we\u2019re gonna stop illegal immigration. But amnesty is the only way to deal with the ones who are here now.<\/p>\n

Everybody went along with it, and we see what happened. Now we\u2019re talking about a minimum of 11 million illegals plus the chain migration plus the kids that are born here that automatically become Americans when their parents are not. So it\u2019s so far beyond 11 million. A million and a half illegals came in last year. Apparently the largest caravan of the last five years is forming and is to soon be making its way to the United States.<\/p>\n

It is entirely possible to shut the border. We\u2019ve done it. We did it for 40 years. It\u2019s not mean. It\u2019s not inhumane. It\u2019s not separating mommies from their children. It\u2019s none of that. And the key to this, as far as the left is concerned, is to never use the word illegal. It\u2019s always immigrants. And we are a nation of immigrants. The backbone of our nation is immigrants. Not illegal ones.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t emphasize enough that once you allow lawlessness at such a scale as is happening with this issue, then what good is the law anywhere? Once you go down the slope of not enforcing it on such a massive scale like this, then it\u2019s Katie, bar the doors for illegality.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how we get sanctuary cities. It\u2019s how we get any number of other adjuncts to this. Trump was elected on this issue, and if they\u2019re not gonna build a wall or help, then something has to be done because the very existence of American culture, the distinct American culture that gives us American exceptionalism is what is at stake here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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