Posted on 01/31/2005 5:17:39 PM PST by ovrtaxt
WASHINGTON – Rush Limbaugh, the radio talk-show giant with more than 20 million listeners, is poised to add his considerable voice to those calling on President Bush to heed popular opinion on issues of tightening border security and enforcing immigration laws, WorldNetDaily has learned.
"We cannot maintain our sovereignty without securing and protecting our borders in an era when terrorists around the world seek entry to this country," he said Friday in a private gathering in Florida.
Limbaugh has not been an outspoken critic of the president on this issue in the past. Neither has he focused much of his broadcast attention on the border and immigration issues during his nearly two-decade career as a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host. Instead, Limbaugh is perceived as a champion of many Bush policies.
But, clearly, Limbaugh sees Bush as out of step with the public in his continued calls for implementation of a guest worker program that has been characterized by critics as an amnesty plan for as many as 20 million illegal aliens already in the country,
Limbaugh said he was particularly disturbed by statements Friday by Mexico's Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez threatening to appeal to international courts a new Arizona law barring illegal aliens from collecting some public benefits.
Proposition 200, approved overwhelmingly by voters in that state Nov. 2, has already survived critical legal tests in state and U.S. courts.
Bush already is facing mounting opposition to his guest worker plan in the House Republican caucus. A year ago, Rep. Tom Tancredo was a lonely voice of opposition to the plan. Today, he says, there are at least 180 Republican votes against the plan. House Speaker Dennis Hastert is on record as saying the plan will not move forward in the House without majority Republican support.
"Rush has 20 million listeners a week, so if he decides to attack President Bush's plan to regularize immigration flows through a guest-worker program, he could help kill the idea," said Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund.
In a White House news conference last week, Bush continued to promote his ideas about immigration reform: "I know there's a compassionate, humane way to deal with this issue. I want to remind people that family values do not stop at the Rio Grande River. People are coming to our country to do jobs that Americans won't do, to be able to feed their families. And I think there's a humane way to recognize that, at the same time protect our borders, and at the same way to make sure that we don't disadvantage those who have stood in line for years to become a legal citizen. And I'm looking forward to working with people of both parties on the issue."
Meanwhile, a leading member of his own party last week announced sweeping measures aimed at cracking down on the ability of terrorists to travel within the United States.
The Real ID Act, introduced by Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., looks to deny drivers licenses to illegal aliens, tighten the political asylum system abused by terrorists, plug a three-mile hole in the border fence between California and Mexico near San Diego, and strengthen deportation laws to more quickly oust foreign terrorists dwelling in the U.S.
"American citizens have the right to know who is in their country, that people are who they say they are, and that the name on a driver's license is the holder's real name, not some alias," said Sensenbrenner, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee.
"The 9-11 hijackers could have used their passports to board the planes, but only one did. Why? Those murderers chose our driver's licenses and state IDs as their forms of identification because these documents allowed them to blend in and not raise suspicion or concern. Mohammed Atta received a six-month visa to stay in the U.S. yet received a Florida driver's license good for six years!"
He says the act, which has 115 cosponsors in the House, would establish a uniform rule that temporary driver's licenses for foreign visitors expire when their visa terms expire, and create tough rules for confirming identity before temporary driver's licenses are issued.
Earlier stories:
Battle over illegals: Bush vs. Congress
Mexico threatens Arizona over anti-illegals measure
Revolt begins for Bush push for illegals
Now how can I be a liar when all I did was clip and paste a couple of sentences from the article you just posted the link to?
Click on your link, look down the page about 2/3rds the way. See the image of Michelle Malkins's book on the right side? Now get your mommy to read to you the text on the left side. That is the part that I cut and pasted in post #79.
Now please explain why you call me a liar for posting exactly what Rush said?
By the way, how old are you?
"Furthermore, our own County Executive, (D)Doug Duncan has given the police department clear orders NOT to cooperate with the US Immigration."
Sounds like business-as-usual in Montgomery County to me. Didn't they try to implement a "living wage" there?
even little old ladies are corrupt in Mexico. You'd have to brainwash and re-program the whole country to get rid of the corruption. It permeates every level of their society.
Expect it to get even worse now that Bank of America has removed money transfer fees to its partner bank in Mexico, Santander Serfin. The illegals can get an account at B of A with just a matricula consular as ID, the family in Mexico gets an account with Santander and starts receiving the payments. There are entire regions of Mexico that are dependent on these remittances. Western Union is going to lose big because of this development, and more money is going to be sent south.
the Tijuana newspaper Frontera reported in December that 22 new smuggling routes had been established in Tijuana, and that there are now a total of 72 routes in Tijuana. There's plenty of crossing happening in the Tijuana - Tecate area.
Do all the male dem's have "bushons" when they're bashing the President? If they are displaying them in public, they should be arrested. /sarcasm
Right now I KNOW that my Hispanic flyerboy will be there tomorrow, calling in for work...in freezing temperatures with or without snow.
You're asking me to take out Pedro Martinez in the 3rd inning and replace him with Donnie Moore.
They are dependable. They give an honest day's work. They're respectful. And they love their mothers.
We don't raise them like that...at least not on the Coasts.
Furthermore, our own County Executive, (D)Doug Duncan has given the police department clear orders NOT to cooperate with the US Immigration.
"They need me on that wall. They WANT me on that wall..."
Como???
Como???
It's a line spoken by Jack Nicholson in A FEW GOOD MEN.
that would indicate a failure on our side of the border.
i know that area well. some of it is very difficult to hike in, but to bring unexperienced, out of shape people thru', would be difficult. when it rains in san diego, it snows in these mountains. there's been a lot of rain and snow this year.
of course, in places the 1-8 is only miles away from the border. thus, people can be picked up. but one would think that our bp would be watching this. i've seen their vehicles parked in the mountains at night.
an indicator that would prove this true would be reports of coyotes driving on the wrong side of the freeways. there was always a correlation between those incidents and the volume of illegals coming through the mountains.
Times haven't changed, we can always count on hearing about roll-overs and injured illegals on the 8 every month or two. We've even had Mexican consular officials enter the hospitals and sneak the injured illegals out so they won't be deported.
"We've even had Mexican consular officials enter the hospitals and sneak the injured illegals out so they won't be deported."
amazing.
Really? Why are so many of them in jail?
If they're paid on Friday; and still have $$$ on Monday; they won't be at work; they'll be drinking beer somewhere...
Your experiences sure are very different from ours.
You still have pretty beaches; even tho you can't see the islands anymore...cuz some guys from L.A. remodeled the house between you and the beach; now its a "Three-Story Eye Sore".
Is it possible you meant "Port Hueneme"? Mandalay Bay area? Its a "bit too high-dollar" now.
Just fortunate to find junior and senior high school aged, soccer loving, non-gang member kids. They're great.
there were new condos being built then, god that's 20 years ago, on the beaches within oxnard, but south towards the navy base.
i liked the area.
mogu's further south.
whatta nightmare. now it's a mess.
Rush: "When that happens, our whole rule of law is undermined; the respect for the law and the authority of the very Congress and White House that passed and signed these laws, all these things are undermined. A nation that cannot control its borders cannot control its sovereignty. Now, both political parties have determined that it is in their political best interests to pander to illegal immigrants, and that's exactly what they're doing. Both sides are pandering to illegal immigrants for votes."You are correct about the liar. I listened to this whole discussion by Rush. It was clear he does not favor granting amnesty to illegals.
"Without a large supply of illegal (lacking legal status) workers, the farm economies of California, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Florida and most of the Southeast would collapse. It's not that Americans won't do the jobs that illegals do--we just won't do them for $2 an hour."
Then pay the workers more and hire Americans. Why should we the taxpayers subsidize businesses who want to hire cheap labor, by having to shoulder the costs for all of the social services we shell out to illegal aliens? Any money that might be made off the backs of illegals is dwarfed by the expense of them via welfare and other social benefits, including their overwhelming many of our school districts, those schools having to dealing with bi-lingual education problems, their swamping our hospitals, and then having to deal with the actuality of babies born by their border-hopping mothers just so the kids will be U.S. citizens. Of course, then there are the jails that are stuffed with illegal immigrant criminals. Yeah, but we must make sure to benefit those business people who illegally hire the illegal immigrants just so they can maximize their profits at our country as a whole's expense. Good deal for them, bad deal for our country.
Yeah, he wasn't even worth a response. It's pathetic.
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