“also he just must not see how legal/illegal immigration is destroying this country.”
Rush was approached by important players in the Prop 187 fight way back in 1994. Prop 187 was a California bill to combat illegal immigration.
Rush wasn’t interested. Wouldn’t help at all. He wouldn’t even take calls from people concerned about the destructive impact of illegal immigration. He kept this up for a decade, being a loyal waterboy to No Borders Dubya.
In the last year Rush began speaking out on the disaster that mass immigration from the Third World has been for the country. I thought he had finally wised up. But his love fest for Marco Rubio says otherwise.
He knows about it perfectly well, he just doesn't care. Illegal immigration provides cheap labor for the constituency Rush represents, which is why amnesty and open borders have become a pillar of the GOP establishment and the RNC. Limbaugh represents a fake opposition to the establishment.
As to the costs: poverty, crime, lost jobs, cultural degradation etc, what are they to him? He and his friends are doing just fine in their gated communities, they never have to see the downside first-hand. Sometimes I think that the elites of both parties would much prefer to have a US that's more like Mexico or Central America, so that they don't have to deal with much of a pesky disgruntled middle class.