{"id":385389,"date":"2021-03-09T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=385389"},"modified":"2021-03-10T16:08:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T21:08:40","slug":"elections-have-consequences-open-borders-in-a-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/03\/09\/elections-have-consequences-open-borders-in-a-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Elections Have Consequences: Open Borders in a Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

TODD: So often as we\u2019ve looked back through Rush\u2019s life and as we compare him to how he might cover today\u2019s news, the range is… It\u2019s not just conservatism. It\u2019s not governmentism. It\u2019s not Americanism. It\u2019s so many aspects of life including career — including ingenuity, including working hard, including family relationships — that Rush has talked to us about.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll get to a lot of his wisdom this hour. But there is just prime in the news, it is just one more indicator the Democrat Party\u2019s obsession. You can look at it in a couple different ways. A charitable view of this is that Democrats believe that the United States simply must be the sponge for any and all displaced peoples. Mathematically that\u2019s an interesting thing.<\/p>\n

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We are 5% of the world\u2019s population and we have taken in 20% of the world\u2019s displaced peoples. We are the top provider of foreign aid on an official and unofficial capacity, the unofficial being the hearts of the American people who love preceding a gift to others, official being foreign aid, which Donald Trump, the president, did a great job of cleaning up and not funding countries that hate us.<\/p>\n

A less charitable view is that the Democrats simply want to import new voters. I think that\u2019s true. I think it\u2019s unassailably true. A far less charitable view to all of these things is the Cloward-Piven view, which is hard-core leftists want to flood the American system with people who need immediate assistance and are coming here for immediate assistance.<\/p>\n

Not to pursue life, liberty, and happiness, but to pursue a government check. And there are people who do that. What\u2019s the mix? I don\u2019t know. But we have a right to control our borders. Otherwise, we don\u2019t control our society. Rush spoke so often about this. But he also looked at it from a different perspective. During the time when COVID had hit — and we were legitimately trying to figure this out.<\/p>\n

What is this, and how bad is it? Two or three weeks into that we should have, you know, seen the data, et cetera, to understand it\u2019s age stratified, et cetera. I can rathole on the COVID. I\u2019m obsessed with it. But during that period of time, the border became an issue, and last December Rush had a conversation with a doctor in California that just highlighted the seriousness of this issue.<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Randy in San Luis Obispo, California. Great to have you with us. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good morning, Rush. Blessings and prayers to you. You\u2019re the first person that\u2019s been willing to have the wherewithal to go against the political correctness. You know, I\u2019m a physician about 200 miles north of Los Angeles. I was born and raised in LA. I trained in LA hospitals, the county hospitals down there. And I\u2019ve been dismayed to see that no one seems to be connecting the dots with regard to immigration, illegal immigration and the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n

I follow the sites, the Los Angeles County sites as far as hospitalizations and have been doing it ever since March, and, you know, 72% of the hospitalizations in Los Angeles are Hispanics. Seventy-one percent of the ICU hospitalizations are Hispanics. And that\u2019s from March 1st to December 19th.<\/p>\n

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I want to make it real clear right at the start here: My wife is Hispanic. I have no problem, nothing against Hispanic people. So I just want to make that real clear. But they are the large, large majority of people that are being hospitalized in Los Angeles, which means they\u2019re basically a reservoir — if not the main reservoir — for passing the COVID virus around.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s because they can\u2019t work distantly. They can\u2019t work remotely. The vast majority are boots-on-the-ground agriculture — you know, domestics, chefs in restaurants and cafeterias — and they also tend to live in very dense homes where you can pass viruses around very quickly and easily. And if anybody in one of those households is illegal, it\u2019s probably unlikely that any of them are likely to go in to seek care until they\u2019re very, very sick.<\/p>\n

The interesting thing was back in I think it was March or April I started thinking about this, and I looked into it. The Pew Research showed the large majority of illegal immigration was along the entire southern border of the United States. California, Texas, and Florida were the highest numbers, but it was pretty much all the southern states.<\/p>\n

As you\u2019ve watched over the course of time, that has kind of, you know, gone up to all the states, throughout the United States. And that\u2019s obviously because of migration and then, of course, the passage of the virus. So, you know, I kept waiting for somebody to make this point, and I\u2019ve never heard anybody make this point, and to me it seems very obvious.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s particularly scary when I saw last night on the news them showing these caravans ramping up down in Central America kind of waiting for Biden to take office and thinking that they can start coming across the border again. I mean, if we are already overwhelmed — which we are — I mean, that\u2019s gonna be the final deluge.<\/p>\n

You know, these people coming across are… A lot of them have the virus or will be in situations where they\u2019ll pass the virus around. So I just… I\u2019m glad I had a chance to bring this forward to you because it\u2019s extremely worrisome to me if the borders start opening up for them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, let me… While I have you here, I have the stories that you\u2019re talking about involving Biden, and I\u2019ve got one from the New York Post and one from TheHill.com. The first one: “Biden Says Fast Immigration Changes Could Cause a Rush at the Border.” Now, this was during his press briefing yesterday, and he said that “restoring the U.S. immigration system would be an overwhelming priority.” Folks — and I know, Randy, you\u2019ll agree with me. By “restoring our immigration system,” he means he will no longer enforce immigration law. That\u2019s what he means.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m afraid so.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He means he\u2019s going to go back to the Democrat Party interpretation of immigration, and that is there\u2019s no limits on it. But Biden also said — and I\u2019m paraphrasing here — that he\u2019s not gonna be able to do away with the southern border on his first day in office (he was sending a signal to leftists), because doing that might cause “a rush of two million people coming across the border.”<\/p>\n

But he said that he\u2019ll get it done within the next six months, and he says it\u2019s gonna cost a lot of money to not enforce the immigration law. Now, all of these illegal aliens, will they be tested for COVID before they\u2019re allowed to enter the United States or are they just gonna be given priority to get a vaccine? What do you think?<\/p>\n

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CALLER: Well, of course, that\u2019s a very big and important question. You know, they\u2019ve been prioritizing it to first front-line caregivers. In fact, I\u2019m scheduled to get my vaccine next week, and then kind of down the line — and they talk about essential workers. I hope essential workers means the people that I\u2019m talking about. But I really think if you were gonna aim at one particular source, you want to get the source that is passing this around most frequently.<\/p>\n

That, of course, is the illegal immigrants and the people who have to work in person, and they can\u2019t do it from home. So I would hope that they would start immunizing those people. Because it\u2019s actually very much akin to, you know, back in the early 1900s when they tried to get control of yellow fever. You know, what they found…<\/p>\n

When they finally realized it was a mosquito that was passing this, they started putting anti-mosquito agents into all the ponds and lakes and the places where they breed, and that is how they finally got control over yellow fever. This is kind of a similar thing, and I don\u2019t mean to be in any way degrading people and saying they\u2019re like mosquitoes.<\/p>\n

But just like the mosquitos that were the reservoir for the disease, in this same situation the people that are the reservoir for the disease are the groups that should be, I think, approached most aggressively and, you know, in the very forefront of this.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, one thing is — and I could be wrong about this. My perception is that in all discussions of COVID and reading where it\u2019s the United States is the epicenter now. More people are dying from it here than anywhere else per capita. More people are contracting it here than anywhere else in the world per capita. But in all of this, we never hear about why and how.<\/p>\n

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