{"id":387800,"date":"2021-03-19T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=387800"},"modified":"2021-03-22T15:33:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T19:33:25","slug":"if-only-theyd-tried-the-limbaugh-amnesty-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/03\/19\/if-only-theyd-tried-the-limbaugh-amnesty-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"If Only They\u2019d Tried the Limbaugh Amnesty Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRETT: Let\u2019s take a look at what\u2019s going on in the border area of the United States, the southwestern, that vast expanse from San Diego to Brownsville. And by any account, by anybody\u2019s account, there is a crisis underway at that border. The decision by President Biden to come in and to sign the executive orders to essentially reopen the border, to encourage the migrants to start crossing, well, it has had a huge impact on the United States.<\/p>\n

In February alone a hundred thousand — a hundred thousand — migrants crossed the United States. There\u2019s an inspection that number is a floor and not a ceiling and that this is gonna continue to be a tremendous challenge. Now we have the House of Representatives voting to give millions of DREAMers and farm workers a path to citizenship.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right. It\u2019s amnesty or amnesty-like. No, it looks like amnesty at this point. Rush talked about the dangers of an amnesty plan when he said this.<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ve told Chuck Schumer, and I\u2019ve told Karl Rove, I\u2019ve told any number, look, I\u2019ll be on your team, I\u2019ll come out and I\u2019ll promote amnesty as a way of solving the problem with one proviso: Those granted amnesty are not granted citizenship for 10 or 15 years, meaning they can\u2019t register to vote for 10 or 15 years. And let\u2019s just see, let\u2019s just see what kind of support there is because the whole reason the Democrat Party wants this is they see 11 million new voters. They see a brand-new permanent underclass.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s another thing we could do. We could increase their tax rate as a penalty. Ha-ha-ha. How do you think that would fly? Can\u2019t vote for let\u2019s say 15 years and have to pay the full Medicare tax. Nah, let\u2019s not complicate this. Don\u2019t add to their tax rate. Just leave it alone. And I guarantee you I wouldn\u2019t have any takers. You might have some patient Democrats, “You say 10, 15 years, okay, all right, I\u2019ll go for that.” I\u2019m sure some would want to take it, but it would expose what this is all about.<\/p>\n

Really it\u2019s a law-and-order issue as much as it is anything else. I think the way the media goes after this, analyzes Trump, is not at all the way his supporters do. I don\u2019t think they\u2019re anywhere near this critically attentive to it. It\u2019s a broad-based issue to them, not macro. And that\u2019s how they hear Trump dealing with it. It\u2019s like everything. I think most Trump supporters think this isn\u2019t complicated, and the efforts to complicate it are how we have gotten into the mess.<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t complicated. We got a law that says you cannot be here illegally, it is illegal to come here and stay here, and we enforce the law and everything would be fine. But we don\u2019t enforce the law and that\u2019s why everybody\u2019s bent out of shape, and the rule of law goes by the wayside, what other glue is there to hold us together? It\u2019s really not that complicated, but people want to make it so, because the more complicated it is, the more simpleton-like they can make Trump out to be and his supporters. Don\u2019t doubt me.<\/p>\n

BRETT: Look, this is an absolutely top-line, vital issue to talk about. This idea of enforcing the law at the border is foundational. We all know the argument. If you do not have a functioning border, you do not have a nation — and if you want to have socialism and giveaways and free stuff for everybody, well, you can\u2019t do it with an open border.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll lose your country, and you\u2019ll go bankrupt at the same time. So what is so amazing about this development — this shocking ignorance or purposefully dodging by the Biden administration looking at the border condition and situation and refuse to call it a crisis, well, they\u2019ll send FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, in to handle it.<\/p>\n

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The fact that they will not call it a crisis; they\u2019ll call it a condition, a situation, any other odd comment. What it essentially does — and let\u2019s be clear about this, because I grew up on the border. I grew up in El Paso, Texas, and I have spent the majority of my life either in the Southwest or in the far west along the border with Mexico. What it says to the people who live at the border and in those areas is, “Your opinions don\u2019t really rate.<\/p>\n

“We talk about public safety. We talk about quality of life. We talk about all these things. But we in Washington, D.C., and in the New York City newsrooms and in Los Angeles and San Francisco where the power is concentrated and you have politicians acting as rulers, they don\u2019t much care for the you people crowd out there along the border.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s far away. It\u2019s hot. It\u2019s difficult to get to. We really don\u2019t have time to spend a lot on this. This is about justice. So if we can do an amnesty, if we can give support to farm workers, if we can do all that sort of stuff, well, that\u2019s a win for us because we want,” as Rush has said a number of times, “a permanent underclass that is dependent on the government, and that means the Democratic Party.”<\/p>\n

So as long as that happens, as long as that\u2019s going on, system\u2019s working fine except for the people that live along the border — and one only has to go back and look at the election results in 2020 to see the substantial uptick of support among Hispanic — Latin-American and people of Latin-American heritage and Hispanic heritage — alongside the southern border.<\/p>\n

Many of those people in Texas and New Mexico and Arizona and into California have been in the United States or in the territory that is now in the United States for the better part of six generations. They don\u2019t want people crossing their farmland, their frontier land. They don\u2019t want people suddenly showing up at bus stops dropped off by DHS.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t want to see people trafficked in horrible conditions, children in horrible conditions being trafficked into the interior of the United States. The border, if functioning properly, ought to be like any two-state border anywhere in the United States where you travel to and fro and return home at night.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how a functioning border works, whether it\u2019s in McAllen or Laredo or in Brownsville or in El Paso or in Columbus, New Mexico, all the way out into Arizona and California. People should be able to engage in commerce and then return back to their lives.<\/p>\n

\"\"But when you put a premium on the lawlessness — you see at the border and the cartels are empowered and human traffickers are empowered, and human smugglers are empowered, and you have an administration in Washington made up predominantly of East Coast and West Coast elites that don\u2019t get to the border very much — you get horrible policy.<\/p>\n

“Oh, what do you mean there\u2019s something going on over there? Well, we\u2019ll certainly fix that.” The fix they\u2019re offering is the relocation of folks from that border area, crossing that border, crossing the frontier into the interest rate. We\u2019ll send them to Chicago. We\u2019ll send them to Charlotte. We\u2019ll send them to Denver. We\u2019ll send them to Dallas. Dallas, by the way, where they\u2019re about to house 3,000 young children and teenagers who had crossed the border.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re about to put them in the Dallas Convention Center.<\/p>\n

Can\u2019t have a convention, but you can use it as shelter. This is all partisan party politics, and it\u2019s about raw power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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