President Limbaugh Declares Immigration Reform As Voter Registration Campaign

Once a month or so I suck it up for you all and listen in to president Rush Limbaugh to make sure I am clear about the marching orders that he is prescribing for America.

While listening to the radio show today Limbaugh took a phone call from a young woman who's family run's a farm.  She declared to president Limbaugh that she is a conservative or that her family espoused conservatism, but she was calling in because she was torn.  She did not understand what she should do about the conservative ideology and the demand for migrant workers in her industry.  To promote a crack down on immigrants would be an attack on her own livelihood.

Rush has somehow evolved or devolved depending on your perspective into seeing immigration as a conspiracy of the democratic party.  Somehow he does not realize the drastic impact of NAFTA legislation on the Mexican farmer and the subsequent migration to where the farm work had gone.  Rush did not actually believe that farm work and many other low waged industries have become too low to pay the bills for most American families.  He doesn't quite realize that migrants will live in transitional housing or multiple family housing in order to offset the demand of paying bills with such low wages.  President Rush just doesn't get it.

In fact, he has now decided that the only reason that democrats are seeking to deal with immigration is because they are looking to add 20 million people to the voter registration logs under democrat. This same suspicion extends into the republican party, but the president feels that republicans only thought that they could add Catholic conservative Mexican's but never executed a real plan other than the Marco Rubio magnet.

I am  a little concerned that Rush Limbaugh, the face of Reagan republicanism is starting to show signs of.........something. After insisting that there are loads of alternatives to immigration amnesty, he struggled to share a couple of his own, but here is what he came up with.

Option 1 could be seasonal migration in which only the worker, not their family, comes to America for a season.  Apparently the migrant worker program existed in the past and the corporations would be responsible for bringing and deporting these migrant workers.  Who deals with the 20 million that are already here seemed to scream  out to me, but it took Rush a while to catch the noise.

When option 1 finally started to sound silly even to him, Rush presented option 2 in which we create farm or low waged work tax breaks in order to increase the wages of such work to attract Americans who have long since stopped doing this type of work.  Americans ran from this type of work in part due to the crappy nature of the jobs, but mostly because struggling farmers moved on to low waged labor in order to turn a profit too.  The mere notion of better wages for American workers is a great idea but I would love to see the process of moving immigrants out while you funnel in Americans into this type of work.  Who gets the increased wages in the interim?  Never mind, this idea isn't that great at all.

The truth is that there is no easy answer to immigration.  Even Rush resigned himself to the reality that if we were serious about immigration than we would prosecute the laws that are already on the books (option #3).  Yeah Rush, prosecute the laws and begin with the farmer who called into your show admitting that her family hires illegals all the time, because its the only way they can remain in the business of feeding America.