https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2017/09/05/the-limbaugh-compromise-build-the-wall-keep-the-dreamers/The Limbaugh Compromise: Build the Wall, Keep the DREAMers
Sep 5, 2017
RUSH: Now, on the DACA business, you know, let’s go back here to this audio sound bite number 1, February 22nd on this program, I talked about a — by the way, do you think everybody knows what this is? I mean, they call it the DREAMer act, the DACA act, and a lot of people — I’m not even sure — let’s run through what this is, folks, because it is the unique and distinct creation by Barack Hussein Obama.
DACA or the DREAM Act is not part of existing immigration, or it wasn’t when Obama enacted it. It is a creation of Obama. He unilaterally implemented it after failing to pass comprehensive immigration reform with Congress, meaning amnesty. It was an end run around the constitutional process for passing laws. Now, in practice, what DACA is, a temporary executive branch amnesty for certain illegal aliens who claim to have entered the country unlawfully as minors.
“They’re children, we can’t punish the children. Oh, my God, we can’t, it’s not their fault they had to come with their parents.” No, they weren’t coming with their parents. If you recall, folks, these were the kids that were on the mule trains and the railroads that were coming in from Central America without their parents. You remember this? They were being settled by the federal government in various neighborhoods in southern California. They weren’t even being fully processed. They were arriving and then they were being placed by the Obama Department of Homeland Security with families all over the country. Remember this?
Remember, it was a never-ending stream of children unaccompanied by their parents. And of course the reaction we were to have was one of great compassion and sympathy, and what we were told was it’s so bad where they’re coming from, Guatemala, El Salvador, these other places, it’s so bad that their parents are sending these kids out alone. That’s how bad it is, less of a risk to put them on the trains or with the coyotes than it is to leave them here.
Now, the plan is all along for once the children get here, well, that’s step one in having their parents admitted, because who can keep families apart, ladies and gentlemen? What kind of society would we be that would keep families apart? So little Johnny DREAMer DACA kid gets in the country, and then his mom and dad want to come in later. This is essentially what the program was. Executive branch amnesty for illegal children, minors, who had entered the country illegally.
With a pen and a phone Obama tried to unilaterally change the immigration status of untold numbers of people. DACA gives illegal immigrants who were under 31 years old as of June 15th, 2007, number one, protection from deportation, and, number two, a work permit. So that’s essentially what we’re talking about.
Now, we can go back, and we can air audio sound bites of Obama claiming he didn’t have this power. He was on Univision. He did a town hall meeting on Google Hangouts, and he had people saying, “Why don’t you just let ’em in? Why don’t you just open the borders and let anybody who wants to come in, why don’t you just do this?” And Obama would say (paraphrasing), “Well, you know, I’m not a king. We have laws here, and I just can’t.” But he went ahead and behaved like a king.
So the amnesty crowd now is saying, essentially, that the United States is responsible for so much suffering in the world that we owe the world a free trip to our country. Anybody that wants to improve their lives, we should let them in.
So here comes Trump, and he’s remembering his base. The reason Donald Trump got elected — and there are many — but one of the reasons, the biggest reason at the top of the list is his position on illegal immigration, closing the borders. So Trump was true to his base in his announcement that he was gonna end the program but in a six-month period of time. The reason for that is because the existing law really isn’t a law. It’s executive action that Obama took that’s outside the Constitution.
Trump is throwing it back to Congress and saying, “Deal with it. We’ve got to have an actual legislative and statutory solution to this problem. We cannot continue to go on this way.” Well, the problem is that the Congress has been all over the ballpark on this. Paul Ryan, prior to Trump coming along, was dead set against this. Now that Trump is in the White House, Paul Ryan doesn’t think that we should change DACA. And he’s not alone.
There are many Republicans in Congress who, when Obama was president, criticized it, thought it was untoward, thought it was unconstitutional, thought it was improper. Now that Trump is in the White House, they don’t want to change it. Because this is what the Chamber of Commerce wants. This is what donors want. This is one of the many phases or stages, if you will, that gets us to full-fledged amnesty, comprehensive immigration reform.
So Jeff Sessions went out and announced the administration position this morning. We will have that. Now, I advanced an idea on this way, way back in February, and it’s amazing how this idea has caught on. It’s got a lot of people supporting it. It’s got a lot of people afraid of it. The Democrats are routinely attacking it, which means it’s a great idea.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: It’s the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals. That’s what DACA is or DACA, however you wish to pronounce it, the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals. Now, let’s go back, February 22nd, 2017, on this program. I discussed a possible compromise for the DREAMers staying in the country, ’cause they’re children, of course, and you know the sentiments that exist toward the children. I mean, nobody wants to kick a bunch of kids out of the country, right? I don’t care if they’re budding little Al Capones. People just don’t want to do it. It’s the children, you know, the people the Republicans starve with school lunch program cuts and such. Nobody wants to do that. So I came up with a compromise.
RUSH ARCHIVE: In order for the DREAMer thing to be acceptable, the rest of this stuff has to be by the book. No amnesty for anybody other than the DREAMers. We enforce existing law. We turn the Border Patrol agents loose to find people they already know exist and they already know where they are and deport them. People that have committed crimes, people that have been accused of crimes, they’re subject to deportation. People who’ve been convicted of committing crimes.
These are all people that are not citizens. They’re illegally here in the first place, and deporting them is exactly according to existing law. If that happens, and if they move on the wall, if they move on strict border control, then the DREAMer thing is a worthwhile compromise. You’re looking at me like you’re incredulous. He thinks I’ve set off an earthquake here.
I don’t know what the politics are of rounding up a bunch of kids. I know. I know each of these DREAMers has two parents, and if you have 750,000 DREAMers, that’s the number, then you gotta multiply it by two or three. I understand that. But even after you do that, we’re not talking 11, 12, 15, 20 million here. We’re not talking comprehensive immigration reform.
No, I’m just saying that the DREAMers, if they’re properly defined, if you properly define DREAMers and leave it at that, it’s a small price to pay to get the problem under control. And there’s gonna be have to be some price to pay for getting it under control.
RUSH: I caught flak from all sides back then on February 22nd, but I caught a lot of support too. Folks, there’s nothing that tells me that in the end we’re going to round up a bunch of crumb crunchers and put ’em back on the train and send ’em out. There needs to be something gotten for it. There needs to be a price, and it would be a great thing, couple this, say with building the wall. I mean, you go all-in on border enforcement. Now, Trump has decided to end it, but there’s a six-month waiting period before it is initiated. And that ostensibly is to give Congress time to actually come up with a legislative solution. They don’t want to touch it, other than to go full bore amnesty for everybody because that’s what donors to both parties want.
And I’ll tell you, folks, what Trump did today via Sessions, it’s almost along the same lines as pulling out of the Paris accords. It’s rocked ’em. They didn’t think it would ever happen. “Trump is not this callous. Trump is not this cold-hearted.” But Trump knows his base, and he knows the impact all of this has had on the American economy and American jobs. And he’s following through on one of his most predominant campaign commitments.
Now, this morning on the Today show, Matt Lauer spoke with White House correspondent Kristen Welker of NBC about the idea that Trump is gonna end the program. Matt Lauer said, “What’s the likelihood members of Congress can come up with a fix for this?”
WELKER: In the words of one top Republican who I spoke to, the fight over DACA will either unite the Republican Party or tear it apart. You have establishment Republicans who want to find a fix, but for many on the far right, they just think DACA goes against the rule of law and think it should be scrapped altogether. But there’s some buzz about a potential compromise that could bring both sides together, legislation that would, for example, fund the border wall. That’s critical to Trump’s base while also preserving DACA.
RUSH: See? See? All the way back on February 22nd, I, El Rushbo, laid the groundwork here, and now people are starting to say, okay, that’s a good compromise here. Now, she’s wrong here. The Republican Party’s being torn apart long before this thing came along today, long before the whole subject of DACA came up. The Republican Party is being torn apart by itself. The Republican Party is tearing itself apart because it doesn’t have, at least on Capitol Hill, it doesn’t have the wherewithal to get behind the president. For some reason they just can’t do it. Well, you know why. We’ve been through it every which way from Sunday.
Thomas “Loopy” Friedman of the New York Times on Squawk Box on CNBC today, question: “Weigh in on this DREAMer situation, Loopy. A lot of companies have come out over the weekend against what they think Trump’s gonna do, i.e., cancel the program. Is there a way to thread the needle here,” O brilliant one?
FRIEDMAN: We need a strategic immigration policy. By the way, I’d happily give Trump his wall. My view on immigration is I’m for a very high wall. I believe a country has to control its borders. I’m for a high wall with a big gate. So assure Americans that you can control the border and then have a rational immigration policy that can attract the high-IQ risk-takers that have made this country, and Silicon Valley in particular, what it is. And also the high energy, lower skill workers, and do it in a rational way. We need a compromise.
RUSH: Wait a minute. Did I just hear Thomas L. Friedman of the New York Times say he’s for a very high wall? Did I just hear that? You just heard that. I was unaware that Thomas L. Friedman was in favor of a wall. That puts him on the same side of an issue with Trump.
Now, this high-IQ immigrant thing that he’s talking about, see, everybody’s focused on Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley is where all the brilliance is. Silicon Valley, they’re all in favor of open borders immigration, ’cause that’s where they need to get the big IQ talent. Folks, you know as well as I do what they’re talking about there is the H-1B visa, and you know what that is.
The H-1B visa is a way to bring in similarly educated, brilliant people from overseas and have them replace existing brilliant employees at much less pay. At the Disney corporation existing employees had to train their H-1B replacements who were gonna be paid half what they were being paid. So this is not as clean cut and simple as everybody would have you think.
