by Ann Coulter
DOING THE WORK OUR MEDIA JUST WON’T DO: CLUES TO THE IMMIGRANT CRIME WAVE
With the government keeping that information locked in a steel casket at Fort Knox, one has to look at ancillary facts. The available data suggest that the crime rate among immigrants is astronomical. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), for example, inadvertently issued a report indicating that there are twice as many foreign-born criminals as the GAO’s estimate. In 2006, the DHS stated that 605,000 foreign-born criminals would be arrested by state and local law enforcement in 2007 alone. That’s double the number of illegal aliens for whom the states requested reimbursement in 2009.13 If the DHS’s estimate is correct, then nearly a third of the 2 million prisoners in state and local facilities that year14 were foreign born.
Piecing together state and federal reports, it appears that half the correctional population in California consists of illegal aliens. According to a state report, there were fewer than two hundred thousand inmates in the entire California prison population, including mental hospitals, in 2009.15 That year, 102,795 illegal aliens were incarcerated in California, costing the state more than $1 billion a year.16 Texas counts only illegal aliens who have already been fingerprinted by the Department of Homeland Security. Even with that limitation, Texas arrests more than thirty-two thousand criminal aliens a year.17
Then there is the explosion of America’s prison population since we began admitting millions of Third World immigrants in the 1970s. From 1925 until 1970, a steady 0.1 percent of the population was in state or federal prison. Thus, in 1925, when the U.S. population was 100 million, there were about one hundred thousand people in prison; and in 1970, when there were 200 million Americans, there were two hundred thousand in prison.18 Then, suddenly, just as a very different sort of immigrant began to be admitted under Teddy Kennedy’s 1965 immigration act, the prison population skyrocketed. If the incarceration rate had remained the same, there would only be about 310,000 people in prison today. Instead, there are more than 2 million prisoners in America. Since 1970, the U.S. population has increased by one-third, but the prison population has nearly sextupled. A lot of factors affect incarceration rates—liberal judges, destructive social programs, illegitimacy, and social decay. But those come and go. Immigration is forever.
ONE THOUSAND DOMINICANS—ONE DANE
The New York State Department of Corrections has collected information about the top ten nationalities in its prisons for years—a practice that will presumably end as soon as this book is published. Foreign inmates were 70 percent more likely to have committed a violent crime than American criminals. They were also twice as likely to have committed a class A felony, such as aggravated murder, kidnapping, and terrorism.19
In 2010, the top ten countries of the foreign-born inmates were:
Dominican Republic: 1,314
Jamaica: 849
Mexico: 523
Guyana: 289
El Salvador: 245
Cuba: 242
Trinidad and Tobago: 237
Haiti: 201
Ecuador: 189
Colombia: 16820
Most readers are agog at the number of Dominicans in New York prisons, having spent years reading New York Times articles about Dominicans’ “entrepreneurial zeal,”21 and “traditional immigrant virtues.”22 Even in an article about the Dominicans’ domination of the crack cocaine business, the Times praised their “savvy,” which had allowed them to become “highly successful” drug dealers, then hailed their drug-infested neighborhoods as the “embodiment of the American Dream—a vibrant, energetic urban melting pot.”23
Between 1996 and 2010, the only change in New York’s foreign inmate population was that El Salvador and Ecuador edged out China and Panama on the “Top Ten” list, and the number of Mexicans doubled. Mexicans have been in the top ten nationalities of foreign-born inmates in New York for decades. In 2010, there were more Mexicans in New York state prisons—523—than there were inmates from the entire continent of Europe—353.24
In 2007—the last year the New York Department of Corrections bothered to list European inmates by country, the representation of the following countries in state prisons was:
Denmark: 1
Czechoslovakia: 2
Netherlands: 2
Switzerland: 2
Ireland: 4
Poland: 27
Germany: 46
England: 4925
Of course, on account of Europe’s own insane immigration policies, most of the “European” criminals are probably Muslims.26 In Denmark, actual Danes come in tenth in criminals’ nationality, after Moroccans, Lebanese, Yugoslavians, Somalis, Iranians, Pakistanis, Turks, Iraqis, and Vietnamese.27
We do not know how many prisoners from “England” were like this one, featured in the Orlando Sentinel in 2014: “Brit Gets Ten Years for Seeking Child Sex for Incest Fantasy.” The name of the “Brit” was: Shuhel Mahboob Ali.28 He had flown from London to Florida in order to rape the thirteen-year-old daughter of a man he met through an online ad. Instead, the forty-year-old Ali was arrested by undercover FBI agents who had placed the ad. In his months of chatting with the fake dad, Mr. Ali provided graphic details of how he planned to create a “daughters only” incest family. He said he would “breed” with the thirteen-year-old girl, then immediately begin sexually abusing their babies, to indoctrinate them into the incest “lifestyle.” “When you start with very, very, very young,” he boasted, “you can mold them to believe anything and do anything you [say].”29 Shuhel Mahboob Ali is now one of the “British” inmates in our federal prisons.
ARKRIN TAECHARATANAPRASERT OF THE BACK BAY TAECHARATANAPRASERTS
Other hints about immigrant crime come from the “Most Wanted” lists. Here is the Los Angeles Police Department’s list of “Most Wanted” criminals, as of January 1, 2015:
Jesse Enrique Monarrez (murder),
Cesar Augusto Nistal (child molestation),
Jose A. Padilla (murder),
Demecio Carlos Perez (murder),
Ramon Reyes (robbery and murder),
Victor Vargas (murder),
Ruben Villa (murder),30
Antonio Villaraigosa (gross incompetence and mismanagement of funds).
Ninety percent of the names on the U.S. Marshals’ list of most wanted criminals31 would not have been recognizable as names fifty years ago—unless “Arkrin Taecharatanaprasert” or “Florin Filipescu” were little-remembered early-twentieth-century Americans. But it’s nice to know that the Nguyen family has a hobby they all enjoy. (From the Marshals’ list: Hieu Nguyen, Jimmy Nguyen, and Nancy Nguyen.)
Half the names on the Marshals’ list are Hispanic.
The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office in Minnesota openly applies affirmative action to its “Most Wanted” lists, in order to show a “cross section” of the community, rather than telling us, as the title suggests, who actually are the “most wanted.”32 But even in a compilation of criminals front-loaded with Americans, a pattern emerges:
Krysta Ellen MacCourt, 34: Wanted on charge of felony escape from custody and sentencing guideline violations on DWI convictions.
Hannah Jeanette Myhre, 31: Wanted on charge of sentencing guideline violations on first-degree aggravated robbery conviction.
Edward Francis Bates, 38: Wanted on charge of first-degree criminal sexual conduct in connection with a Brooklyn Center rape.
Jose Guadalupe Gutierrez-Sanchez, 40: Wanted on charge of first-degree criminal sexual conduct in connection with the abuse of a girl.
Abdihakim Mohamed Isse, 40: Wanted on charges of first- and third-degree criminal sexual conduct in connection with a sexual assault.
Mohamud Mohamed Omar, 32: Wanted on charge of fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle.
Julian Alcaide Lopez, 37: Wanted on charge of criminal sexual conduct in connection with a sexual assault.
Steven Allen Ableman Jr., 29: Wanted on charges of DWI and domestic assaults.
Abdikani Moha
med Ahmed, 26: Wanted on charge of degree aggravated robbery in connection with an armed robbery.
Fanuel Andies Tesfatsion, 24: Wanted on charge of prohibited person in possession of firearm.
Instead of searching law enforcement bulletins for clues, it would be terrific if our constitutionally protected guardians of liberty in the press ferreted out the truth. Judging by the interest on the internet, the public is absolutely fascinated with the immigration status of criminals.
IT’S RUDE TO ASK ABOUT THE IMMIGRATION STATUS OF THE SUSPECT
On the rare occasions when a reporter asks if a criminal is an immigrant, government officials summarily dismiss the question as if it would be racist to discuss the defendant’s nation of birth. Ricardo DeLeon Flores killed a teenaged girl in Kansas after speeding through a stop sign and crashing into two cars. “When asked whether Flores was a U.S. citizen,” the local Kansas newspaper reported, “Deborah Owens of the Leavenworth County Attorney’s Office said she had no knowledge of his citizenship status.”33
Was the Spanish translator a hint? The ICE officials showing up in court? His Oakland Raiders T-shirt? Two families’ lives were forever changed by the reckless behavior of someone who should not have been in this country, but the prosecutor refused to tell a reporter that Flores was an illegal immigrant. Owens must have felt a warm rush of self-righteousness, thinking how much better she is than all those blood-and-soil types who want to know when foreigners kill Americans.
In 2012, Gerardo Beltran Rodriquez, twenty-seven, Adolfo Guzman Lopez, thirty-one, and Irving Eduardo Rodriquez-Munguia, twenty, were caught with four pounds of heroin in their car during a traffic stop. (Hispanics should become better drivers if they plan to keep transporting large amounts of heroin.) None of the men spoke English. In another act of journalistic heroism, a local reporter in Gaston, North Carolina, asked if the men were illegal aliens. The highway patrolman who arrested them, W. R. Blanton, responded that he doesn’t deal with immigration.34
Essex County prosecutor Paula T. Dow refused to answer questions about her office’s release of Jose Carranza, twenty-eight, an illegal alien indicted for child rape who then went on to murder three teenagers. Brushing off the “uproar” about Carranza’s immigration status on CNN, Dow said those questions would have to “wait for another day.” The assistant prosecutor, Thomas McTigue, responded to media inquiries about the decision to release an illegal alien child rapist, saying, “Our focus hasn’t been his immigration status.”35 No kidding.
In this vale of ignorance, the New York Times’ David Leonhardt announced that he was quite sure how many immigrants are in prison: Very few. Not many, at all. A tiny number. Certainly less than anything TV personality Lou Dobbs says. In another classic example of the absence of facts being used to browbeat anyone whose figures the media don’t like, in 2007, Leonhardt snippily corrected Dobbs for claiming that one-third of federal prisoners “come from some other country.” Announcing that he would present “the facts,” Leonhardt wrote that the “percentage of non-citizens” in federal prison had fallen to 20 percent in 2005.36
First of all, Dobbs said “come from some other country”—not “non-citizens.” Half a million people who “come from some other country” become citizens every year.37 More than a million did in the year before Clinton’s 1996 reelection.38
In any event, Leonhardt wasn’t citing facts at all. He was citing one of several wild guesses by the government. The DOJ relies on immigrants’ self-reports to determine prisoners’ citizenship status. The GAO conducts its own analysis of Bureau of Prisons data. And the U.S. census simply guesses the immigration status of inmates.39 Clearly, the government hasn’t the first idea how many prisoners are noncitizens. But Leonhardt treated as gospel the Department of Justice’s estimate that 20 percent of federal prisoners were illegal immigrants. That same year, the GAO said it was 27 percent40—which is pretty close to Dobbs’s “one-third,” and the GAO was only counting illegals, not all foreign born.
Leonhardt might as well have chastised Dobbs for using an incorrect estimate of the number of fish in the ocean. The difference is: The number of foreigners in American prisons is easily ascertainable, if only the government would count them. Wouldn’t it be great if someone would just tell us how many immigrants have been convicted of committing crimes in America?
CRIMINAL CULTURES POURING IN TO AMERICA
America is helpless against the criminal cultures being foisted on us by immigration from the Third World. Identity theft, credit card scams, Medicare and food stamp fraud, tax rebate theft, and staged-crash insurance scams—these are not native American habits. Our criminals kill their spouses for the $30,000 life insurance policy after splashing their DNA all over the crime scene. Americans think only dumb people become criminals, but that’s not true in the Third World, where criminality transcends social class.
In Nigeria, every level of society is criminal, with the smart ones running internet scams, the mid-range ones running car-theft rings, and the stupid ones engaging in piracy and kidnapping. At the University of Lagos, you can major in credit card fraud. There were almost no Nigerians in the United States until the 1970s.41 Today, there are 380,000. We take more immigrants from Nigeria than we do from Britain.42 There are more Nigerians in the United States than any other country in the world besides Nigeria.43 But I’m sure our new Nigerian neighbors will have German-style rectitude about reporting ALL their income to the government.
In Mexico, every transaction between a citizen and a government official involves a cash bribe.
All of the main immigrant groups to the United States commit a wildly disproportionate amount of crime compared with native-born Americans. Russians specialize in financial fraud, arms dealing, and drug smuggling; Albanians prefer ATM thefts, home invasions, gambling, and drugs; Chinese go in for human smuggling, drug trafficking, and gambling; and Arabs specialize in drug smuggling, human trafficking, and document fraud.44 According to the National Crime Prevention Council, Mexican gangs in Los Angeles use money from the sale of counterfeit products to fund their drug trafficking, human smuggling, and prostitution operations. Copyright theft alone costs the county nearly half a billion dollars in lost tax revenue and one hundred thousand lost jobs.45
We’ve built up no immunity to such complicated crimes, so America is like Disneyland to foreign criminals. To illustrate my point, I ran a Nexis search of the words “fraud, food stamp, Medicare and insurance.” Unfortunately, my computer exploded. A compilation of the perpetrators would produce enough comical foreign names to fill this entire book. It would be a bestseller, come out in paperback, be adapted for the big screen, win a Golden Globe—and you’d still be searching Nexis for one traditional American who bilked Medicare for $20 million. For brevity, here are some of the results from a single month, September 2014:
Sadiq Sadruddin Lakhani, convicted in fuel fraud case;46 Sathish Narayanappa Babu, convicted of Medicare fraud;47 Cruz Sonia Collado, sentenced for $6.5 million Medicare fraud;48 Andrew Jong Hack Park, Sang Jun Park, Jose Isabel Gomez Arreoloa, Xilin Chen, Chuang Feng Chen, Aixia Chen, Hersel Neman, Morad Neman, Mehran Khalili, and Alma Villalobos, arrested for laundering drug money;49 Taimur Khan, Javed Sunesra, Zuned Sunesra, and Bismilla Sunesra, convicted in illegal prescription-drug scam;50 Farid Fata, convicted in $225 million Medicare theft;51 Armen Bislamian, Khachatur Bislamyan, Sisak Saribekyan, Karlen Khatchatryan, and Hartunyun Grigoryan, charged with $2 million credit card scam;52 Estrella Perez, Solchys Perez, and Abigail Aguila, sentenced in $20 million Miami healthcare fraud;53 Dona Takushi, Jenny Nishida, and Nicole Cheung, convicted in credit union embezzlement;54 Armen Bislamian, Khachatur Bislamyan, Sisak Saribekyan, Karlen Khatchatryan, and Hartunyun Grigoryan, arrested in $2 million credit card theft;55 Akinola Afolabi, convicted in $1.5 million Medicare fraud case;56 Amir Rasheed, Karuna Mehta, Mashhod Afzal, Mustafa Al Kabouni, Mohamad Barbour, Mohammad Amir Al Kabouni, Muhammad Eid Al Kabouni, Waqif Qadir, Asra Qadir, Glenda Lopez, and Cristin
a Ramirez, convicted in $3.6 million food stamp fraud;57 Bahram Khandan, sentenced for selling $1.8 million stolen hospital supplies over the internet;58 Felix Maduka and Stella Maduka, convicted in $4.5 million healthcare fraud scheme;59 Moklasur Mukul, Mohamed Ali, Deshi Bazar, Ali Ahmed, Nazir Ahmed, Mustak Ahmed, Azizur Ullah, Mohammed Chadek, Mohammed Miah, Mohammed Amin, Dilshad Chowdhury, and Mohamed Ahmed arrested in food stamp fraud;60 Fowzi Naji Tareb, charged with $6 million food stamp fraud;61 Angel Mirabal, charged with $24 million Medicare scheme;62 Ricardo Parga and Alien Moya, accused of faking car accident in insurance scam;63 Dr. Vicha Janviriya, convicted in $1.3 million Medicare fraud;64 Annilet Dominguez, sentenced in $6 million Miami home healthcare fraud;65 Orelvis Olivera, indicted in $8 million Medicare fraud;66 Dr. Kutub Mesiwala, Jaweed Mohammed, Mohammad Zubair Khan, and Tousif Khan, indicted in $7 million healthcare fraud;67 Ernesto Fernandez, Dennis Hernandez, Jose Alvarez, Joel San Pedro, Alina Hernandez, and Juan Valdes, charged in $6 million Miami home healthcare fraud.68
By contrast, the typical American’s idea of an internet scam is to photoshop the head of Hillary Clinton onto the body of Kim Kardashian.
Our government seems pretty slow at detecting the Pakistani Medicare scams. I have my doubts that we have the manpower to catch them all. How much are foreigners’ elaborate frauds going to cost the taxpayer? How much are we paying to incarcerate people who have no right to be here? How much of the American economy will be devoted to the police officers, lawyers, and judges necessary to keep foreign criminals behind bars? What is the cost in murder victims, rape survivors, facial reconstruction surgeries, drug overdoses, ruined lives, stolen property, and destroyed neighborhoods? We haven’t the first idea, but on the bright side, the government can tell us the precise number of Samoans without battery-powered radios.