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.”
