Mark Levin (38:09)
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number, 8773-8138-1187-7381-3819. You'll also notice, well, many of you won't because you don't bother with it. I don't blame you for mental health purposes, that a lot of these people who claim to be America first, they turn on the President on a dime. I went back and I looked at their attacks on the President, claiming this guy Rick or Rich Barris, for example, I know you don't know who he is. It doesn't really matter. But the point is, in the middle of the summer, he was trashing the President, warning him the MAGA was turning on him over Epstein. He pretty much regurgitates what Tucker Carlson says. But MAGA didn't turn on the president on Epstein. It's not even an issue that anybody cares about in MAGA or anywhere else. But these grifters, they're looking for these issues. But it doesn't help the country when they do what they do. And when they play along with the radical left in their media, it doesn't help the country at all. And you'll see them stab the President in the back when it comes to Venezuela. It's kind of starting. It's kind of a soft move, but nonetheless, you can start to see it. He's going against maga. He is Maga going against Mag. He's a hawk. He's a neocon. They don't even know what a neocon is, but it's a pejorative for Jew. That's how they use it because they're very stupid. Very simply, a neo conservative is a name that was applied to people who'd been like fdr, Democrats, but then came over more hawkish to the Republican Party sort in the 50s, but especially with Reagan. Gene Kirkpatrick is a perfect example. Tucker Carlson's father is another perfect example, was a very, very good man. And others. And so now anybody who supports our military, certain military action, having alliances and supporting our allies is a neocon. Especially if they are Jewish. It's crazy. That's not Trump. Trump is not an isolationist. There was never Charlie Kirk. How can it be? It's suicide. It's the suicide of the west when our enemies are on the move. China is not impressed. Until Iran was defeated by Israel and their nukes were taken out by us, our military, Iran was not impressed. Putin's not impressed. And how can you Be making excuses for all of our enemies. Almost going back to World War II and then claim your America first. That's not America first. That's a. That's a delusion. But sloganeering is very, very important to the propagandist. Very important because that's what they push. Slogan after slogan after slogan after slogan. You must be a fill in the blank. You must be part of the old guard. You must be a neo con. It means nothing. It's a. It's a triggering mechanism. It sort of. For what disliked. They don't have the guts to say full blown what they mean, but that's what they mean. That's who they are. Let's get into this immigration issue. Since I've been talking about this longer than most, since we here, you Levinites, we fought the Gang of Eight. Remember the Gang of Eight. McCain even back then, Rubio, some of the others, and then the Democrats too. Remember the Gang of Eight, in my view. In your view, Mr. And Mrs. America was all about massive amnesty. Our position has not changed. In fact, our principles are what they are, no matter what. Many years ago, I wrote probably one of the biggest selling conservative books in modern history, Liberty and Tyranny. As we were part of the Tea Party movement at the time, you may recall. I guess that's the old guard too. Neocons, no doubt. But many of you were and many of you are now maga. In fact, it's my theory that meant much of the Tea Party became maga. It's a very significant overlap of ideas. But in chapter nine on immigration, the statist's argument, the statistics argument, does this sound like old guard to you? For comprehensive immigration reform reduces to this America is a nation of immigrants. The founding and settling of the nation came about because of immigrants who braved dangers to come to this country, risked everything to build the prosperity we enjoy today. Certainly this is true as far as it goes. Of course, to say this is a nation of immigrants is to say every nation is a nation of immigrants. Mexico, the source of most immigrants to the United States today, is a nation of Spanish and other immigrants. The implication is, however, that both legal and illegal immigration, no matter how extensive, is another moral imperative justifying the transformation of this civil society. Not true. Once again, the Declaration, remember this was written 15, 16, 17 years ago. Once again, the Declaration of Independence provides guidance on the issue. Old guard, I guess. It states in relevant part that to secure these unalienable rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Moreover, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish the government and institute new government laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to reflect their safety and happiness. And so I asked, have the governed American citizens consented to the current state of legal and illegal immigration in this nation? Do current immigration policies and enforcement practices affect the safety and happiness of the people? And by the way, this is long before what Biden did to the country in one of the most heinous, outrageous acts of any president. Opening the borders. The status insists that in particular the 21st century immigrant in the United States is the spiritual heir of the immigrants who helped build the nation. His motives are said to be noble and his ambitions as honorable as those as the Founders deny him access to America's bounty and freedom displays an un American meanness, they say, meanness of character, and is a renunciation of America's heritage. Even worse, the status portrays the immigrant as universally more virtuous than the citizen. He said to aspire to and indeed achieve a higher position of worthiness than the citizen free is doing, quote, unquote, jobs Americans won't do, is a person of faith, unquote end quote a strong family man. The citizen is said to owe his sustenance to the immigrant who builds his home, maintains his property, harvests his food, raises his children, goes to war, etc. Therefore, even the illegal immigrant, they say, deserves a privileged status in society in the sense that his law breaking is said to be a personal necessity and societal value. Consequently, he must be urged out of the shadows and into the light. He must be celebrated as a role model, and his virtuousness must be rewarded with citizenship. Pretty much that. Was it right for the conserver that this is truly an odd formulation, since it demeans the citizen and his paramount role in American society. It is the community of citizens who consent to be governed and for whom the government exists. The principal responsibility of the government is to the citizen, otherwise the government ceases to be legitimate. To say that the citizen who is in fact primarily responsible for the nation's character and the culture to which the alien immigrates is less valuable to American society than the immigrating alien is nonsensical. No society can withstand the unconditional mass migration of aliens from every corner of the earth. The preservation of the nation's territorial sovereignty in the culture, language, mores, traditions and customs that make possible a harmonious community of citizens dictate that citizenship be granted only by the consent of the government, not by the unilateral actions or demands of the alien, and then only to aliens who will throw off their allegiance to their former nation and pledge allegiance to America. Claremont Institute, a great institute senior and I attended it. Senior fellow in California State University Professor Edward Ehler, reflecting Aristotle's observation, he was also old guard, writes, quote, a radical change in the character of the citizens would be tantamount to a regime change just as surely as a revolution in its political principles. The government therefore is not only justified but obligated to qualify immigration to those most likely to contribute to the well being of the civil society and to create the conditions in which aliens of differing backgrounds can be absorbed into the American culture. Yes, indeed. You know, the big push for what's happening today occurred 60 years ago during the Great Society. Before that, but especially 60 years ago, the late author Theodore White, who was no conservative, wrote that the Immigration act of 1965 changed all previous patterns and in so doing probably changed the future of America. Was noble, revolutionary and probably the most thoughtless of the many acts of the Great Society. In the 1960s, Cesar Chavez, one of the founders of the United Farm Workers Union, vehemently opposed illegal immigration, arguing it undermined his efforts to unionize farm workers and improve working conditions and wages for American citizen workers. The UFW even reported illegal immigrants to the Immigration and Naturalization service that preceded ICE 1969. Chavez himself led a march accompanied by Ralph Abernathy, President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the former lieutenant to Martin Luther King and Senator Walter Mondale, big lib Democrat along the border with Mexico, protesting the farmers use of illegal immigrants. Can you imagine that? Wow, it's changed a lot, hasn't it? Yes, the status tolerates the illegal aliens violations of working wage and environmental standards because the aliens babies born in America are under the current interpretation, the 14th Amendment treated as United States citizens and under the 1965 Hart Celler Act. That's what Theodore White was talking about. Upon turning 21 years of age, the child can sponsor additional family members for citizenship. Chain migration. So from the statist perspective, the pool of future administrative state constituents and sympathetic voters is bottomless. But does the 14th Amendment grant automatic citizenship to the children of illegal aliens? The relevant part of the amendment reads that again, this is way before people were even debating this issue. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States. Now this language requires more than birth within the United States. The amendment's purpose was to grant citizenship to the emancipated slaves who were born in the United States and owed sole allegiance to the United States. Native Americans who were also subject to tribal jurisdiction were excluded from citizenship. There is no legislative history supporting the absurd proposition that the 14th Amendment was intended to empower illegal alien parents to confer American citizenship on their own babies merely as a result of their birth in the United States. Foreign visitors and diplomats are not subject to American jurisdiction. Illegal aliens are subject to the jurisdiction of their home country. Are their children, whether they're born in our in their home country or in the United States. This is liberty and tyranny. I'm not going to read the whole book or even the whole chapter. I'm telling you this because for some reason, less than 20 years later, the idea has grown that if a foreigner wants to come into the United States, they have a right to come here. And if they come here illegally, they have a right to stay. They have a right to the welfare state. They have a right to basically anything that an American citizen has. Education, health care, housing, food stamps, and a right to vote and a right to be counted in the census. All of this in less than 20 years. Now, we spent a lot of time over the decades, you and me, Mr. And Mrs. America, condemning this. Condemning when the Republicans were buckling under the Gang of Eight, condemning George W. Bush, when he was pushing his agenda, you stopped it. You recall that, Mr. Producer? We had a massive campaign here. We lit up the board on Capitol Hill. You stopped it. You stopped the Gang of Eight Republican members on this committee. They would call me and ask me to tell you to stop two of them, especially one of whom you know well, and I won't get into it. You stopped them right here. You have stopped a lot of what the establishment Republicans have tried to do over the decades. We are activists here. We're on a mission here. We believe in ideas. We believe in arguments. We believe in substance. We believe in history. Most of all, we believe in this country. We are not foreign bots. We are not come and go grifters. We are here for the long term and we will always be here. It is not me. It will be somebody else. I want to dig into this Afghanistan issue again, as we had when Biden did what he did, but a little differently. We'll be right back. You know, in all the time I've been supporting Pure Talk, my wireless company, I can honestly say I've never seen an offer like this from them before. Listen to this. Unlimited talk, unlimited text and unlimited data with a 30 gig hotspot. Just $29.95 a month for life. Friends, this is Pure Talk's top tier plan. Normally $65 a month, now through December 7th. That's it. Just 2995amonth. You're saving over 50% a month, every month for life. Yes, that's on their crazy fast 5G network. But this offer is extremely short lived. Go to PureTalk.com Levin that's L, E V I N for PureTalk's best unlimited plan. Just 29.95amonth for life. 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And we got calls to our affiliates complaining about it. This is why history matters. This is why it's important to understand what has already taken place, to know what you need to do moving into the future. The world didn't begin today, certainly didn't begin with a couple of knucklehead pollsters or guys with a website or anything like that. It's much more complicated than that and it's broader than that. And these are basically sort of hemorrhoids in the body politic. What I'm talking about now is very, very serious. Open borders, massive numbers of people into this country who hate us. You have to believe, and now you should believe that people were sent into this country to do us no good. People coming into this country. There's an infrastructure now this is key. There is an infrastructure of Marxist Islamist violent radicals that are now in this country training people. 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