Republicans on amnesty: They are afraid of what people think. They are abandoning principle for what reason? Naiveté … or fear?
From the Rush Limbaugh Radio Show
Our immigration system isn’t “broken,” by the way. It isn’t broken. Do you know the United States has probably the most generous legal immigration laws in the world? Every year we, in the United States, admit more legal immigrants than all other countries in the world combined, by a wide margin. Legal. Europe has lost control.
Now, members of Congress keep running around and saying, “The impetus for this immigration reform is that we have a broken system.” We don’t. We have border that hasn’t been enforced and secured. That’s what’s broken. What else is broken is the American people have no trust in the people in Washington to do what they say they’re gonna do. In this case, they’re not even saying that they’re going to do it. ~Rush Limbaugh
Senator Ted Cruz on Immigration and amnesty
A lot of Republicans in Washington were scared. I gotta tell you, I think that political argument is complete nonsense. If you look at the last time we enacted amnesty in 1986, the next election was 1988, the Republican share of the Hispanic vote went down. It is not the case — Hispanics are not the single-issue, monolithic voters. ~Ted Cruz
RUSH: Senator, you’ve been, obviously, observing and commenting on political life in America for a long time. You’ve been in the Senate now for six months. Could you explain to me and people in this audience, why do the Democrats want this, and why do the Republicans who support this want it?
CRUZ: Well, the Democrats want this for pure politics. Chuck Schumer was very candid in the Senate Judiciary Committee when he said, “If there is no citizenship, there can be no reform.” This is all about their endeavor. They want to grant amnesty, and they hope to get a lot more Democratic voters, or they want this to be voted down and use it as a political issue in 2014 and 2016.
On the Republican side, sadly, a lot of the support of it is political as well. You know, after 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, “You’ve got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.” And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared. I gotta tell you, I think that political argument is complete nonsense. If you look at the last time we enacted amnesty in 1986, the next election was 1988, the Republican share of the Hispanic vote went down. It is not the case — Hispanics are not the single-issue, monolithic voters.
My dad was an immigrant from Cuba with nothing. And many Hispanics believe in rule of law, and you’ve got a bunch of Republican longtime officeholders in Washington who are scared and listening to the consultants. Let me tell you an interesting poll number. In Texas, Rush, we polled Hispanic voters in Texas and asked them, “Number one, do you support more border security?” Sixty-eight percent of Hispanic voters in Texas support more border security. But the second question is even more revealing. Hispanic voters we asked, “Do you support a pathway to citizenship or work permits that do not allow citizenship?” And a plurality, 46% of Hispanic voters in Texas supported a work permit without citizenship and only 35% supported a pathway to citizenship. This is a crock that is being sold to Republican politicians that they can just buy off Hispanics, and frankly it’s offensive, but it’s being sold as pure politics.
RUSH: And I think you’re right, the consultants are telling Republicans — you know, you can tell somebody anything. The fact they believe this is what’s frightening to me. Because where does this stop, Senator? If, for example, we gotta get back in the good graces of Hispanics, therefore we have to support amnesty and throw out what we believe, then what’s next for abortion? What’s next for gay marriage? What’s next for anything that we disagree with the Democrats on? Well, the gays don’t like you Republicans, and you’d better sign on to gay marriage or you’re never gonna get their support. I mean, it’s the same line of thinking and it has no end to it unless you play it all the way out and the Republican Party ceases to exist.
CRUZ: Rush, you’re exactly right. These same consultants advise on every one of those issues that Republicans give up our principles and become Democrats. You know, I’m always amused when the New York Times writes editorials trying to be helpful to Republicans and say, “This is the way Republicans can save themselves.” Look, the New York Times disagrees with us. They’re entitled to disagree with us, but it’s not like we should take their advice.
RUSH: Well, they don’t want to save us.
CRUZ: That’s exactly right. They want to destroy us.
I would urge every one of your listeners to do two things. Number one, come to a website we formed: SecureBordersNow.com, and sign a national petition.
RUSH: Okay, that website is now officially shut down for awhile.
CRUZ: Excellent. But number two, every one of your listeners, I would encourage them, pick up the phone and call your Senator and call your House member.
RUSH: Does that really work on something like this?
CRUZ: It works tremendously. It is amazing what hearing from the grassroots can do. The reason President Obama’s gun control proposals were killed, his proposals to undermine the Second Amendment, is because hundreds of thousands of Americans began slamming the phone lines, and all of the Senators that were leaning towards supporting it suddenly said, “Holy cow, the folks back home don’t like this.” I mean, Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard.
Republicans and Amnesty: It’s about money
Modern American, big money industry I don’t think really cares the political party that’s in the White House. They don’t care. What they care about is being in bed with whoever’s there. It used to be, not that long ago, the old axiom that big money American business, this sort of stuff, voted Republican because that stand for getting government out of people’s way and business wanted fewer obstacles.
Something else come along and replaced it now — and that is, corporate cronyism. If you can profit and profit big by being involved in the government, then you don’t need to worried about government as an obstacle; they’re your partner. What better partner to have than somebody got $3 trillion to spend every year? (interruption) I’m not talking about those businesses. Snerdley’s talking about Obamacare. Those businesses don’t care.
I’m telling you that the Republicans, big moneyed Republicans that are weighing in on immigration to elective Republicans are doing it for financial reasons. They want that pool of people in the country for business reasons. It is attractive to them. But the whole concept of corporate cronyism is not all that new, but it’s a relatively new phenomenon to the extent that it is taking place in the country now. You talk about Obamacare? Who was in bed with him right off the bat?
Hospitals and insurance companies.
Why?
They got a break!
If they helped fund Obama’s ads to sell it, they would not be ripped and criticized by the regime in ads as the bill was rolled out or written. You know that. You remember that. The American Hospital Association and the insurance companies helped fund Obamacare’s ads to sell it to the public. Well, now they’re all panicked. We knew they would be, because after a while they’re gonna be out of business. This is what we never understood: Why didn’t they see that they’re gonna eventually be out of business when this thing gets fully implemented? But another assumption that we make that’s always wrong is that exceedingly wealthy people must be really smarter than you and me.
I can tell you, that’s not the case.
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