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<\/a>RUSH: Well!<\/p>\nCALLER: — can\u2019t throw 15 million people out of this country. Come on.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Nobody\u2019s advocating that. I haven\u2019t seen a single person advocate that.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, but they\u2019re really down on them and they\u2019re Christians, too. We need more Christians in this country.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Who\u2019s down on them?<\/p>\n
CALLER: The Tea Party, and I align myself with the Tea Party. The Republicans. I mean, the base, you know, we got —<\/p>\n
RUSH: No, no. They\u2019re not down on these people. You\u2019ve got to know better than that.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Rush, I see it out here in California. They\u2019re great people.<\/p>\n
RUSH: What do you see?<\/p>\n
CALLER: What do I see? I see, well, basically, racism. Saying nasty things about \u2019em. And they work for us. They work beside us. They\u2019re good workers. They\u2019re Christians. Don\u2019t get me wrong. I\u2019m not somebody on the left. I\u2019m conservative.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right. I can tell.<\/p>\n
CALLER: You still there?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. Yeah. I\u2019m here.<\/p>\n
CALLER: But I just think we need to do something to help these people, the ones that are good —<\/p>\n
RUSH: What do you want to do?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Get rid of ones that cause problems and get \u2019em outta here.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, well, fine, what do you want to do?<\/p>\n
CALLER: We can\u2019t win that right now.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, it\u2019s easy to say, what do you want to do for \u2019em?<\/p>\n
CALLER: What do I want to do for \u2019em? Well, let\u2019s start, let \u2019em apply to become citizens.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I know a lot of people think it\u2019s not fair. My parents waited five, six years to come to this country, five years to become citizens themselves, and it\u2019s not fair to people that are in line.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You sound like Mitt Romney, you want to swallow hard.<\/p>\n
CALLER: No.<\/p>\n
RUSH: How are you gonna find the malcontents to get rid of \u2019em?<\/p>\n
CALLER: A lot of people want to throw them out, they\u2019d like to just round \u2019em up, and we can\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: But you\u2019re the one saying to do it, keep the good ones, throw the bad ones out.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right. Check their records, see if they got —<\/p>\n
RUSH: They\u2019re in the shadows. We don\u2019t know who they are.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, the last caller that we had, there\u2019s one thing that he said, and it\u2019s a no-win. It\u2019s a no-win. Here\u2019s guy who\u2019s a conservative who\u2019s claiming the Tea Party\u2019s racist and doesn\u2019t like these people \u2019cause he\u2019s heard the racist comments out in California about the illegal immigrants. It\u2019s time that we turned Christian, realized that there are a lot of Christians and welcomed \u2019em in. They\u2019re already doing grunt work for us and this, that, and the other thing.<\/p>\n
It dawned on me yet again that people do not understand principled opposition to amnesty. There\u2019s nothing personal about it. It has nothing to do with these particular 15 or 20 million people. It has nothing to do with that. It has everything to do with borders. It has everything to do with preserving the country as we know it with a distinct and proud of it, damn it, American culture, which is why every immigrant in the past has wanted to come here.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s not a person I know that wants to deport, try to round up 15 or 20 million people and send \u2019em packing. It isn\u2019t practical. It isn\u2019t going to happen. What everybody wants is the border secured with active limits on the amount of immigration so that the flow is two things: economically acceptable and productive, and that something that used to happen automatically begins to happen again; that\u2019s assimilation.<\/p>\n
Every time I tell people that there was no immigration in this country for over 40 years, from the 1920s to the 1960s, seventies, they\u2019re shocked. You\u2019d be amazed at the number of people that do not know we totally closed the borders after the wave of European immigration in the 1920s. And we did it for one reason. That mass arrival of immigrants needed to be assimilated.<\/p>\n
Now, they wanted to be. They wanted to become Americans. They had to learn English. They learned American custom. They became acquainted with American holidays. They studied for citizenship. All of this they wanted. And it took that many years to assimilate. All the opposition to amnesty is not personal to these 15 million people. It is, A, rule of law. If we lose the rule of law, that\u2019s all we\u2019ve got. We are seeing how really precariously structured this country really is.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve got a document, the Constitution, that is the law of the land, and we\u2019ve now got a president who, when he doesn\u2019t like it, pretends it doesn\u2019t exist. There is no mechanism other than censure or impeachment to deal with that. And the Republicans have taken both off the table. So there\u2019s no signal that he must stop. If this continues, the United States is not gonna be what it was founded and the Constitution spells out. Somebody asked me on the phone recently, “Is it the honor system, Rush? Is that how it\u2019s worked for 200 plus years, the honor system?”<\/p>\n
What the caller meant was was it just high elected officials, presidents are just duty-bound to obey the Constitution? Well, partly, but it was respect for it, but it was also respect for the law. There was a reverence for it. Now, there\u2019s always been opposition to it. Since the days it was written there have been people opposed to it. I don\u2019t mean to present a Pollyannish picture here. But it is precariously balanced. If any given president or succession of presidents just decides to pretend it doesn\u2019t exist, and if the other two branches of government aren\u2019t gonna do anything about it, then it won\u2019t exist, and this country, there will always be an America, but it won\u2019t be what was founded. Who knows what it will be, but it won\u2019t be. That\u2019s what people are worried about.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re not worried about being overrun. It\u2019s nothing personal here. It\u2019s a desire to hold onto America and make it a beacon, keep it a beacon. Stand for something. We\u2019re losing our economic stature and status to the ChiComs now. There\u2019s a reason for this. And when you realize that amnesty and open borders is a weapon used by the anti-American left, that\u2019s reason enough to oppose \u2019em. When you realize who wants open borders, when you realize the political and ideological motivation behind it, you are duty bound, talk about the honor system, you\u2019re duty-bound, I would think, to stand up and oppose it.<\/p>\n
It isn\u2019t personal. It has nothing to do with ethnicity or race whatsoever. And, by the way, don\u2019t go crazy crediting all these amnesty people with love of humanity. They don\u2019t want these people to ever be self-reliant. They want these people to be voting as dependent incompetents. The political powers that be that are trying to make this happen see a wave of potential registered voters who are unskilled and uneducated and will never be self-reliant. Therefore they are always going to need support from government. They are seeking dutiful, respectful, appreciative dependents.<\/p>\n
The open-borders crowd has no love for these people. That\u2019s the thing that really bugs me. These people are pawns and there is no desire for these people to come here and become the best they can be. That\u2019s not gonna serve the purpose of the political class. The value of these people is as future voters. The Democrat Party needs a permanent underclass, and as people in the old days, not so much true right now, but in the old days as people worked hard and moved themselves out of the lower quintiles of poverty and up until the middle class and beyond, they became less and less dependent on government. The Democrats had to replace them. And so Ted Kennedy thought after 40 years of no immigration, well, let\u2019s open the borders.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what it was all about. It\u2019s inhuman if you ask me. And these people get away with getting all the credit for compassion and caring and big hearts. The people pushing this, in my mind, are the people who have the least real human concern. These are just pawns. It\u2019s offensive in every which way you can think of. That\u2019s why whenever you hear people talk seriously about this, border security is always the first thing required before anything else in a deal to take place, provable, demonstrable. That would mean years of border security before we do anything on amnesty.<\/p>\n
You can\u2019t just promise that you agree with securing the border and then we make \u2019em legal. You gotta show three years that you\u2019re serious about securing the border. Then we do it. There has to be some value attached to this or it all becomes meaningless. Which, sadly, way too much of what used to be important is now becoming meaningless as the political class corrupts as much as they can for their own power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RUSH: Walt in Garner Valley, California. Where is that, Walt? Where is Garner Valley, California? CALLER: Up above Palm Springs, Rush. Merry Christmas. RUSH: Ah, cool. CALLER: What I wanted to say is, you know, I align myself with the Tea Party, but they need to change their attitude towards illegal aliens. Don\u2019t get me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n