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It comes as no surprise to anyone that Rush Limbaugh is anti-immigrant. However, a recent quote has left me in tailspin. Apparently he believes that immigration to the United States is Mexican president Vicente Fox’s way of eliminating a criminal element in Mexico — by exportation. And if that weren’t enough (hold on to your horses) he says that the immigrants that come to the U.S. are “unwilling to work”.

LIMBAUGH: One of the puzzling things about this to me, since President Bush has been in office, is his — you know, he had a very close relationship with [Mexican President] Vicente Fox, and I don’t –

CALLER: Right.

LIMBAUGH: I don’t — I — I think the opposite of what you suggest is actually what’s been happening. But look at it from Vicente Fox’s point of view. I mean if — if you had a — a — a renegade, potential criminal element that was poor and unwilling to work, and you had a chance to get rid of 500,000 every year, would you do it?

I guess that explains the endless lines of workers lined up in Home Depot parking lots in Atlanta or all those guys I see waiting outside of my local hardware store in San Francisco.

Whatever your politics, you have to be an idiot to think that immigrants entering this country illegally are here to do anything other than work. What good are they to their families unless they earn money to send back? Don’t you think the “criminal element” would just as soon stay in Mexico and be lazy than risk their lives crossing the border? Think about it.

Via / Media Matters