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CALLER: Well, I heard, I think it was a congressman say that Trump can\u2019t rewrite the laws. Congress passed these laws, and so apparently there\u2019s a law that contradicts what I thought was — what I understood from —<\/p>\nRUSH: To College Station, Texas. This is Tim. You\u2019re next, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. How are you?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Good. Thank you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I was wondering if you could straighten me out and straighten your audience out on something. I heard yesterday when you said that people seeking asylum in the U.S. and entering through Mexico\u2019s southern border have to apply for asylum in Mexico first before they can apply for U.S. asylum. But today in other reporting on NPR and a couple of other places I\u2019ve heard people saying something different. And I was wondering if you could straighten us out on what —<\/p>\n
RUSH: What have you heard them saying?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, I heard, I think it was a congressman say that Trump can\u2019t rewrite the laws. Congress passed these laws, and so apparently there\u2019s a law that contradicts what I thought was — what I understood from —<\/p>\n
RUSH: There\u2019s a loophole in a law that allows illegal immigrants, if they come here from a noncontiguous country, so if they come here from someplace other than Mexico, that they are allowed, I think, under this loophole to either apply for asylum or to petition for legal residence and so forth. It was a law intended to make it more difficult to apply for asylum if you were from Mexico. ‘Cause applying for asylum became the work around to coming into the country illegally. \u201cNo, no, no. I\u2019m not here illegally. I\u2019m seeking asylum.\u201d<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, right. Has that all bubbled up in the last year or few years as a result of crackdowns at the border —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. For the most part.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — people work around?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, for the most part. As the crackdowns on illegal immigration have popped up, then so have the efforts to get in and seek asylum. You have to go to a port of entry to do it. But that\u2019s even being watered down and not being enforced.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes. One other thing. You mentioned today or yesterday — and you said don\u2019t doubt me on this. I love it when you say that \u2018cause that\u2019s like Jesus said, “Verily I tell you,” you know. I mean, to me, that\u2019s the truth, when you say “don\u2019t doubt me.” But you said that there are concerted efforts, well funded efforts from U.S. people to assemble these caravans and send them on their way north, so it\u2019s a concerted effort. And I wondered if there\u2019s anything documenting that?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, there is, or otherwise I wouldn\u2019t have said it. I don\u2019t make this stuff up. My memory is there are three different funding organizations with U.S. dollars and U.S. organizations that are behind the assemblage of these caravans, including the drug cartels and human traffickers who are attempting to participate in this swarming and flooding of the border. But the overall point is that all of these people, at this point in time…<\/p>\n
After Donald Trump gets into the White House, these massive caravans of people and trainloads of people getting on trains, and kids being put there by their parents… My point is that this is a part of a political objective. There is a political objective here. This is not just a bunch of bedraggled, poor people deciding at the same time — coincidentally en masse — to join caravans. They\u2019re being solicited. These are being promoted as a way you can get here. I think it\u2019s a political objective that propels many of these people trying to get here.<\/p>\n
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Not them individually. I mean, they\u2019re just pawns. But the money to pay for this. I mean, look. You put a caravan of people together from El Salvador, Guatemala, and they\u2019re gonna make it by any way they can. You know, come by train, by truck, by bus, what have you. Some of them are gonna walk it. All across Mexico! Who is paying for this? Where are they being fed? Where are the Porta-Pottys? You know, where are all of the basic human needs to accommodate this many people?<\/p>\n
Somebody is having to arrange this and take care of it, and when you know that the Democrat Party openly supports flooding the border like this… They\u2019re not doing anything. They\u2019re not lifting a finger to try to stop it at any point, just beyond lip service now and then. But we\u2019ll get you the documentation for this claim — it\u2019s actually not a claim, it\u2019s a repeat about something — about the funding sources for this being domestic ASAP. Thanks for the call, Tim.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. Updated news for our last caller. The asylum loophole was, quote-unquote, “discovered” by Barack Hussein Obama, and Obama publicized it, which is why we got the flood of illegals from the Northern Triangle countries starting in about 2009-2010. Remember all of these busloads of people showing up and relocated in cities outside detention centers? This was an Obama-sponsored program. The Trump administration has just changed the asylum law to require that anybody seeking asylum has to ask for asylum in at least one of the countries they pass through on their way to the U.S.<\/p>\n
It is new today.<\/p>\n
The loophole was that if you were from a noncontiguous country, you could apply for asylum. This was a loophole that Obama exploited. You could apply for asylum in the United States if you were from El Salvador, Guatemala. You didn\u2019t have to apply in Mexico. The Trump administration is now changing this, requiring that anybody seeking asylum has to ask for asylum in one of the countries they pass through on the way to the U.S. Now, the documentation on the funding of the caravans. Mexico itself announced that they were shutting down the bank accounts of the organizations that were funding the caravans.<\/p>\n
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