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<\/p>\nRUSH: This is Luba. Luba is in Rochester, New York. You know, I once had an anesthesiologist named Luba.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, really?<\/p>\n
RUSH: You remember a name like that.<\/p>\n
CALLER: She must have been Ukrainian. (chuckling)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. You remember a name like Luba, and she was very, very nice; very professional. I\u2019ve never forgotten her because of the name. So it\u2019s great to have you here. You\u2019re in Rochester, New York, right?<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Yes, I am. I want to tell you real quick, “Luba means love,” but the love I am sending your way today is I thank you and I thank President Trump for giving us the truth. And I hate the left. I think they are mentally ill. They really have some mental issues going on, and I sure wouldn\u2019t want any of them to be guiding our country.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, I know. I share your frustration at that and how to deal with it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: And I\u2019ll tell you, I love you very much. I\u2019ve been listening to you for a long time. I\u2019ll give you my story: The green card deal that\u2019s going on now? I truly believe in that. In 1960, my parents and I and my sister flew in from Sao Paulo, Brazil.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Let me jump in for a minute just to tell people what you\u2019re talking about. She\u2019s talking about the public charge bill. The president announced yesterday that green cards are only gonna be given to people who can take care of themselves. We\u2019re not gonna let massive cases of welfare dependency into the country. Of course, the left is fit to be tied over this because that\u2019s what they need.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: They want those kinds of people here. It\u2019s mind-boggling. So Luba here is calling, I\u2019m sure, to express her disagreement with what the Democrats want to do. You\u2019re in favor of what the president is doing, right?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Absolutely, and it goes beyond that. Rush, I\u2019ll tell you, in 1960 when we came, we had to be sponsored by a family in the U.S. before we came. The family had to be legally responsible for us — financially, food, housing, and everything — and it took a long time to go through the process. My parents spent a lot of money coming here, and within the time they came here, both of my parents — who did not speak English, nor did I. They got jobs within three weeks. My mother worked as Benks Clothing as a seamstress and my dad was a welder. We never took public assistance. The immigrants of yesterday are much different than immigrants now. You don\u2019t just walk into the United States. I came here legally. I got my citizenship. When I got my citizenship, Rush, I swear to you, I cried like a baby.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I understand.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I was so proud. And I love our country. I love it. And I think Donald Trump is the best. And he\u2019s doing everything to clean up a lot of filth, even off the sidewalks.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Does his tweeting bother you at all out there, Luba?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Pardon me?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Does his tweeting bother you at all?<\/p>\n
CALLER: (pause) No, not really, because you\u2019re a lot like him. You tell things like they are. You don\u2019t have to wonder what he\u2019s thinking or what\u2019s behind his statement. He\u2019s a very honest person.<\/p>\n
RUSH: All right. Now, I asked that question for a reason, folks.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes?<\/p>\n
RUSH: I want to explain it to you. Here\u2019s a woman who came here legally. By the way, 1960. Her arrival predates the current phase of immigration law. Ted Kennedy. She came here in 1960 when we had effectively shut down immigration. You heard how she had to do it. She had to have a family sponsor her. She had to go through all kinds of hoops to get here. It was not easy. You just didn\u2019t show up. We had shut down legal immigration for the most part. There were exceptions. It\u2019s never been a flat-out zero. But from the 1920s to 1965 there was none, for all intents and purposes.<\/p>\n
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The modern immigration law that we\u2019re dealing with today dates to 1965, when Ted Kennedy realized what was happening. There weren\u2019t enough replacement Democrats coming into the country via immigration. So we got it ginned up again. The reason we stopped immigration for those 40 years was to allow the immigrants who had come prior to assimilate and to become Americans. It was not a pejorative back then to become Americans. So here\u2019s Luba, and she comes during this period, and it means the world to her that she came here.<\/p>\n
She takes it seriously to this day. It\u2019s one of the standout moments of her life to become a resident and citizen of the United States. She loves Donald Trump. She, to me, is probably the epitome of your average American Donald Trump voter. She\u2019s an average American going through the day living life as an American and keeping track of the things that matter. So she\u2019s in the middle of her spiel here, and I asked her if Trump\u2019s tweets bother her.<\/p>\n
Now, if you listen to the Drive-By Media and if you listen to Anthony Scaramucci, if you listen to all the Republicans, they (sobbing), “Oh, my God. These tweets are gonna embarrass us! Oh, my God. The president (mewling).” She\u2019s unfazed by \u2019em. But she didn\u2019t give a blanket, “No way! I support the president.” She paused. “Well, I don\u2019t know,” and she came down on the side of Trump is serious. Se believes what Trump is saying, she knows how he speaks, and she\u2019s not offended by it. But it was a knee-jerk, blanket support of statement for Trump.<\/p>\n
It was something she considered when I hit her with that out of the blue — purposely, because I think there is such a disconnect between people in this country over Trump\u2019s presidential tweeting and his behavior versus the people in Washington and professional politics who are just… (sigh) They\u2019re just driven insane by it, and they think it\u2019s so bad and it\u2019s bad for America and it\u2019s bad for the presidency. Here\u2019s a woman to whom being an American is not something she takes for granted. It took a lot of effort.<\/p>\n
She has an ongoing, daily appreciation for it. So Luba, thank you, and I\u2019m honored that you\u2019re in the audience and that people like you are out there. Now, on this public charge business. We talked about this yesterday at great length. What Trump is doing is changing the public charge immigration rule that has been on the books. Public charge has been part of U.S. immigration law for more than 100 years. Do you know this? You probably don\u2019t know this! So I am happy to be the one who imparts this to you!<\/p>\n
Public charge has been part of U.S. immigration law for more than a century as a ground for admissibility and deportation. To get into this country, you had to be able to stand on your own two feet. You had to be able to demonstrate that you could provide for yourself — and, consequently, you could be deported if you ever failed to be able to do so! We used to have these strict regulations. Do you know why they were this way? Because this is a special place! It\u2019s made up of a special kind of attitude and culture.<\/p>\n
Back when people were unified about this, there was an effort to maintain it. It was not pejorative to be able to take care of yourself. It was not insulting. It was not an attempt to demean those who couldn\u2019t. It was simply a standard, it was a requirement, because it was part of the definition of a great country. It made all the common sense in the world. But today, that\u2019s out the window, and it\u2019s been replaced by endless sympathy and compassion for the opposite, for people that can\u2019t take care of themselves. But that would be okay if we had a program designed to help them escape that!<\/p>\n
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Which is what the public charge bill or the public charge aspect of the law also was. We were to help people become self-reliant. It was crucial to human dignity! It was crucial to human prosperity. It\u2019s always been crucial to human dignity and prosperity, being able to take care of yourself. There\u2019s nothing wrong with it! There\u2019s nothing sinful about it. There\u2019s nothing demeaning to other people about it. It\u2019s not a zero sum. Because you take care of yourself, that means somebody else can\u2019t?<\/p>\n
That doesn\u2019t fly, either. But we\u2019ve gone so far the wrong way now that our compassion extends to people who can\u2019t and who won\u2019t, and we bring \u2019em in and let them live that way rather than try to help them elevate themselves! Because the Democrat Party doesn\u2019t need people elevating themselves. It doesn\u2019t help them. So we\u2019ve had a totally redefined notion of compassion. We have set out now and claimed that the old America that demanded self-reliance, productivity? “That was a mean America! That was a discriminating America. That was a racist America.<\/p>\n
“That was a bigoted America. That was an America that didn\u2019t account for all of the suffer and misery in the world brought about by America,” which is the cockamamie place we occupy today. So long story short, Trump is refocusing on the public charge immigration rule. Under the new rule, Trump is going to deny green cards to anybody who has gotten welfare benefits for more than 12 months in three years. That is a huge change from Obama.<\/p>\n
Obama exempted any and all welfare benefits as spelled out in a fact sheet from the Immigration and Naturalization Service website. It was hideous! The Obama administration practically sent the signal, “If you can take care of yourself, come on in. If you don\u2019t want to take care of yourself, come on in. If you don\u2019t know how to rely on yourself, come on. We understand it. It\u2019s probably our fault.” Trump is changing this. It comes under the gigantic umbrella of Make America Great Again. But what it\u2019s really focused on is human dignity!<\/p>\n
Human dignity, human achievement, human self-respect. These all used to be common, everyday virtues that everybody sought and aspired to. Today they are racist and bigoted and homophobic and whatever the hell else pea brains like Fredo Cuomo can accuse it of being. So Luba here was calling to vouch for the notion that refocusing on public charge — making sure people can take care of themselves — is exactly right. It\u2019s what she had to do. It\u2019s what she and her family had to do to get into the country. Brief time-out. Thank you again, Luba!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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