Rush Limbaugh surprised a lot of people with his take on amnesty today:
.@rushlimbaugh says his solution to immigration reform and #DACA is to grant permanent citizenship if, as part of the deal, immigrants can’t vote for 15 years…”if they agree to that, I’ll give them amnesty.”
— FoxNewsSunday (@FoxNewsSunday) February 18, 2018
.@rushlimbaugh on @FoxNewsSunday : “I would be willing right here to support an effort to grant permanent citizenship to whatever number of illegal immigrants there are in the country, tomorrow, if you will make as part of the deal they can’t vote for 15-25 years.” @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/25hQpkA7aZ
— Pat Ward (@WardDPatrick) February 18, 2018
I’ve actually not heard this idea before, but I see what he’s aiming at.
Democrats would not have the direct benefit of a bunch of amnesty recipients voting for them… which let’s face it, is their MAIN objective.
Maybe in 15-25 years they’d see how PATHETIC the dems are and how little they ACTUALLY care about those they claim to fight for…
And they’d join the right team?
Maybe.
If these people couldn’t vote for a quarter of a century… would the Democrats even keep fighting for amnesty? Probably not.
According to the Washington Examiner:
Conservative radio show host Rush Limbaugh said that he would be in favor of granting amnesty to every illegal immigrant, with a major catch.
“I would be willing right here to support an effort to grant permanent citizenship for whatever number if you make part of the deal they can’t vote for 15-25 years,” Limbaugh said on Fox News Sunday.
Limbaugh’s comments cap a week where the Senate defeated four immigration bills that included a proposal from President Trump to shield 1.4 million illegal immigrants known as “Dreamers” that entered the country as children. The proposal was voted down due to other cuts to legal immigration that included termination of a diversity visa lottery program.
A bipartisan bill that protected around 800,000 Dreamers from deportation and kept in the lottery program also failed.
The defeats leave Congress facing another stalemate on Dreamers. Trump rolled back protections for them starting on March 5.
Limbaugh accused Democrats of not really wanting to solve the problem since Trump gave them “pretty much what they want.”
The left is already revealing that it really just comes down to WANTING VOTES:
What a totally frank and blunt, racist and partisan, admission. Sorry, Rush, this citizenship thing just doesn’t work that way.
— zz (@kachelme1) February 18, 2018
How bizzare. Thanks for admitting that this false narrative the alt right has spread about immigrants taking our jobs isn’t the real fear.
Rush is just afraid that more Dems will be elected.— Serenity (@serenityatsea) February 18, 2018
Reeeeally, because if your main concern is securing their lives here in America, why would THIS be the sticking point for you?
In the great Republican tradition of vote suppression, gerrymandering, support for Russian meddling, and stolen Supreme Court seats. They can only win by rigging the system.
— Bonnie Resnick (@srslybonnie) February 18, 2018
It’s not really voting suppression when they’re not supposed to legally vote in the first place… ya dolt.
Anyway…. I dunno about all of this… I don’t feel that breaking our laws should be rewarded with permanent citizenship under any circumstances….
What’s your thought?