¡Adios, America!

by Ann Coulter

  4.The rapist’s name would not be found in a phonebook from the 1960s;

  5.Newspapers informatively refer to the rapist in their headlines as: “Man.”

  But those telltale signs allow only an educated guess that the perpetrator is an immigrant. To confirm it, one must search for words such as “ICE” or “translator.” In a way, we’re lucky immigrants don’t bother learning English, or the “translator” search wouldn’t work.

  “THEY WERE UNSURE OF HIS IMMIGRATION STATUS”

  A case out of Seattle had all the main ingredients of an immigrant crime story. First, the crime consisted of the repeated rapes of five little girls between the ages of four and ten. Second, the rapist’s lack of remorse led to gasps in the courtroom. Third, the rapes went on for at least four years without the intervention of the victims’ mother, even though the rapist was her boyfriend. Fourth, the rapist’s name was “Salvador Aleman Cruz.” And finally, the Seattle Times—the only newspaper to cover the case—headlined the article on his conviction “Man Convicted on 7 Counts in Child-Rape Case.”6

  While not the gripping page-turner of a stripper falsely accusing Duke lacrosse players of rape, the Cruz case did have some newsworthy aspects. A twenty-one-year-old girl whom Cruz had begun raping when she was four years old went to the top of the courthouse and threatened to jump, rather than face him in court, where he was acting as his own lawyer in order to taunt and intimidate his victims. She was excused from testifying, which wasn’t a problem since there were so many other victims.

  There are exactly six news stories on Cruz’s case in the entire Nexis archive, all from the Seattle Times—plus an Associated Press report that no newspaper seems to have picked up. The only clue about Cruz’s immigration status was this, from the Seattle Times: “After the assaults . . . Cruz fled to Mexico, prosecutors said. They were unsure of his immigration status.”7

  They were “unsure of his immigration status”? Did anyone ask?

  In the case of a blindingly false allegation of rape against Duke lacrosse players, reporters pursued details about the accused men like starved bloodhounds. We were told the men’s grades, their classes, their professors’ impressions of them, the value of their parents’ homes, their private e-mails, their every encounter with the police—and on and on.8 But a child rapist named “Salvador Aleman Cruz” needs a Spanish translator in court and flees to Mexico after raping at least five little girls—and both the government and media say, Oh yeah, we don’t know his immigration status. Why do you ask?

  People who want cheap maids will tell you: Of course Salvador Aleman Cruz isn’t the kind of immigrant we want to legalize! But what are they doing to stop it? They’re happy to take the cheap labor and never trouble themselves with figuring out how to keep the Salvador Aleman Cruzes out.

  Another hardworking illegal immigrant from Mexico is Palemon Vargas Reyes. He would already be a legal resident, on his way to citizenship, if the American public hadn’t stopped House Speaker John Boehner from taking up Marco Rubio’s “comprehensive immigration reform.” (The media learned their lesson: Henceforth, they will not inform us when Congress is considering an amnesty bill.) Reyes owned a construction business! He’s a married father of five! In April 2014—about a year after the U.S. Senate passed Rubio’s bill—Reyes was arrested for serially raping a fourteen-year-old girl. One of the rapes took place at a job site, so he really is a hard worker. The headline on this story was: “Columbus Resident Charged with Molestation.”9

  ONE FOR THE “NOT OUR PROBLEM” FILE

  The defendant in a story the Chattanooga Times Free Press headlined “Smuggling Case Nets 15-Year Sentence”10 was “man”—as he was called in another Free Press headline—thirty-six-year-old German Rolando Vicente-Sapon, an illegal alien from Guatemala. He had persuaded his sixteen-year-old first cousin, Yuria Vicente-Calel, to join him in the United States, where he immediately began raping her, got her pregnant, and then began sexually abusing their infant daughter.11

  So the good news is: They have an anchor baby!

  What are the odds an American woman could be held as a sex slave by her cousin in a foreign country without her parents ever mentioning anything? But Yuria continued to be raped by Vicente-Sapon for five years with no complaint from her parents. And now, with Yuria’s incest anchor baby, they can come to the United States and get free healthcare, food stamps, and Social Security. You don’t want to break up families, do you?

  If you were wondering how an illegal alien was able to rape his cousin for five years before finally catching the eye of our immigration officials, the answer is: Lots of people who are subsidized by the taxpayer conspired to bring them to this country, and turn them into public charges. In order to get Yuria across the border to be his sex slave, Vicente-Sapon had hired human smugglers suggested to him by a tax-exempt Hispanic church in East Ridge, Tennessee. (He’s a churchgoer!) After he began sexually abusing his anchor baby infant daughter, publicly supported lawyers helped Yuria obtain a restraining order against him. Government officials with the Hamilton County Department of Children’s Services issued the order, but none of them contacted immigration authorities. They didn’t notice that neither Yuria nor her pedophile cousin spoke English?

  Throughout Vicente-Sapon’s criminal proceedings—and appeals!—American taxpayers paid for Spanish translators, child services employees, investigators, judges’ salaries, court costs, and so on. Now taxpayers will be on the hook for his room and board in a state penitentiary. All this, for a case that should have gone into a file labeled “Not Our Problem.” We have our own underclass that needs help. We don’t need other countries’ underclasses moving in, too.

  The Chattanooga Times Free Press’s story on Vicente-Sapon’s conviction was headlined “Illegal Alien Arrested for Incest, Child Rape, Kidnapping, and Sex Slavery.” Just kidding! It was: “Man Guilty in Case of Human Smuggling.”12 Oh, it was a MAN. How fascinating. The Free Press never mentioned that the human smuggler was an illegal alien. That information was available only in the federal district court opinion dismissing Vicente-Sapon’s motion to exclude his statements to the police on the grounds that the Spanish translator misunderstood him. But at least the Free Press reported the story. According to Nexis, it was the only news outlet to do so.

  ANOTHER ADVANTAGE OF NOT SPEAKING ENGLISH

  Vicente-Sapon wasn’t the first immigrant criminal to game the system by claiming “translation” problems. In 2010, Annie Ling, a child-abusing Malaysian immigrant, got a new trial—thanks, American Civil Liberties Union!—after the Georgia Supreme Court held that criminal defendants who allege, after trial, that they are deficient in English are entitled to new trials with taxpayer-provided certified translators.13 In Annie’s case, in Mandarin.

  In 2011, the Arkansas Supreme Court overturned Jose Luis Mendez’s sixty-year sentence for rape and attempted murder on the grounds that the Spanish translator misunderstood his confession. This was despite the fact that the victim personally knew Mendez and testified in court that she had awoken to see Mendez on top of her, strangling her,14 and that the doctor who examined her immediately after the attack testified that her injuries showed that she had been strangled, beaten, and raped.15

  Even when police present the defendant with a tape recording and written document giving Miranda warnings in Spanish, that won’t prevent an appeal based on translation problems. That’s how Guillermo Paniagua Paniagua appealed his conviction for driving drunk on the wrong side of the road, running headlong into the chief of police of Needville, Texas, killing him, then fleeing the accident on foot.16

  So it’s kind of relevant when the defendant is an immigrant. Taxpayers are footing the bill for all those translators as well as the appeals denouncing the translators. With the amount of money an immigration moratorium would save U.S. taxpayers on court interpreters alone, we could build three border fences and revive NASA.

  But when it comes to immigrant criminals, all the media notice is that
the perp is a “man.”

  THERE SEEMS TO BE SOME INTEREST IN IMMIGRANT CHILD RAPISTS

  With the media aggressively hiding information about immigrant crime, citizens take to the internet to document the legions of Americans murdered, maimed, and raped by immigrants. In 2012, Malaysian immigrant Dwipin Thomas Maliackal was arrested after going to a meeting with an undercover cop who had posted on an “incest chatroom” as a father offering up his ten- and thirteen-year-old daughters for sex.17 Maliackal, posting under the name “Horny_Indian,”18 had told the undercover “dad” that he “would love to get [the ten-year-old] pregnant, if you’re OK with that.” He detailed various sex practices he wanted to perform on the girls—which the Orlando Sentinel decorously refused to print. He also admitted to having already had sex with other children, including a five-year-old neighbor. Horny_Indian was convicted and sentenced to prison for fourteen years.

  On the website Libertarian Republican, Eric Dondero posted a story about Horny_Indian, and howled about the silence from the American media:

  A mystery. The distinguished and hugely popular worldwide London Daily Mail has a feature story on alleged child rapist Dwipin Thomas Maliackal; yet no national media in the U.S. has deemed it newsworthy. Only local coverage in the Orlando Sentinel and Tampa Bay Tribune.

  Is it because it doesn’t quite fit the template? The alleged perpetrator is a South Asian from an immigrant family. He is the immediate past president of his college fraternity. He went to a college, University of South Florida, notorious for hard-left politics, multiculturalism and vicious Republican-bashing. Maliackal was an aspiring journalist. And a Bob Costa wannabee sportscaster. Minority. Went to the right school. Good chosen career path. He was a walking talking poster boy for the liberal media.

  But it turns out, he is also an alleged child molester.19

  The comments section was boiling with rage—except for one commenter, who made the important point that Dondero was a racist for noticing that the child molester was an immigrant:

  Apparently every time a Muslim gets charged with a sex offense it’s supposed to be national news. Because Eric is a racist coward.

  That a man had admitted to having sex with a five-year-old could wait. The important point was that it was “racist” to notice that a sexual predator against American children was an immigrant. (Dondero hadn’t mentioned that the pedophile was a Muslim, but that’s good to know if I’m ever on Jeopardy and the category is “Immigrant Child Rapists.”)

  IF IT BLEEDS, IT LEADS—UNLESS THE PERP IS AN IMMIGRANT

  Stories like this are never broken by the mainstream media. It’s always some right-wing blog that publicizes immigrant crimes. Journalists love to claim they only print what the public wants to know. But for as long as there has been news, people have been interested in crime stories. That’s why we have the cliché: “If it bleeds, it leads.” Quite obviously, there’s an enormous interest in stories about immigrant crime. But no amount of the public wanting to know will end the media blockade on negative information about immigrants.

  Jorge Juarez-Lopez, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, began raping his illegal alien girlfriend’s illegal alien daughters, ages eleven and thirteen—or possibly nine and eleven20—on a drive from Sacramento, California, to North Carolina. He continued raping the girls over the next couple of years, while living with them as their father. At first Juarez-Lopez would wait for their mother to leave for work, and sneak up on the girls saying: “I have a surprise for you!” But soon he was forcing the girls to perform oral sex on him even when Mom was home, as he watched for her to come up the stairs. When Juarez was caught, he shrugged and told the police—in Spanish, of course—“I belong to the government now,” a thrill, I’m sure, for North Carolina taxpayers.

  Showing little anguish for what he had done, Juarez kept writing to the girls’ mother from prison, asking her “to weigh how we have lived, everything I’ve given you.” In addition to supporting Juarez in prison for the next thirty-six to fifty-three years, taxpayers will be the ones giving things to the mother, now. She also doesn’t speak English. All this so that the farming and meatpacking industries in North Carolina can refuse to mechanize their operations for a few more years, and the Democrats have a shot at turning the state blue.

  Although he made quite a splash on the internet websites covering illegal alien crime, Juarez-Lopez appears in only one document on Nexis: Indyweek, an alternative newspaper out of Durham covering mostly music and culture. Yes, the same newspapers that had blanketed the state with daily updates about a (nonexistent) rape by the Duke lacrosse team had no interest in a real child rape case going on for years right under their noses.

  Even when an illegal alien child molester is arrested in an exciting caper just a block from the New York Times building, they won’t report it. In 2012, illegal alien Ricardo Martinez-Gomez, who had already been deported three times, reappeared in Granville, New York, and sexually molested an eight-year-old girl at a sleepover with his girlfriend’s daughter. The little girl reported the abuse to Martinez-Gomez’s girlfriend, but she told no one, giving her boyfriend time to escape. By the time the victim told her mother, and she contacted the police, Martinez-Gomez was on a bus from Albany to New York City. Notified by the Granville police to be on the lookout, Penn Station police were waiting for Martinez-Gomez’s bus, but he somehow slipped past them. As the cops headed back to an office to review videotapes of the departing passengers, Detective Warren K. Davis happened to be walking through the station on his lunch break and spotted the accused child molester. Officer Davis asked Martinez-Gomez for identification, saw “Gerardo Cruz” on the man’s Social Security card, and recognizing it as the suspect’s alias, arrested him.21

  If Martinez-Gomez had made it out of Penn Station and strolled one block south, he might have walked right into the New York Times building. The Times would have given him sanctuary, called in La Raza attorneys, and never written a word about the case—unless it was to describe Martinez-Gomez as a hardworking immigrant with a “shy smile.” Only one news outlet wrote about the illegal alien child molester’s arrest within shouting distance of the New York Times building: Manchester Newspapers. It’s not even clear if the story ran in any of Manchester’s actual newspapers, or just online. When Martinez-Gomez was sentenced, only the Schenectady Daily Gazette reported it, in a small news blotter item.22

  Flimsy rape accusations against college athletes will be pursued to the ends of the earth. But as soon as a rape suspect is determined to be an immigrant, all news interest vanishes. On August 22, 2014, a local Milwaukee TV station posted a short item: “Illinois Fugitive Is One of Wisconsin’s Most Wanted, He’s Armando Romero-Gutierrez.”23 Armando was a thirty-six-year-old Mexican wanted for sexually assaulting an eleven-year-old family member. U.S. Marshals believed he was either with a brother in Wisconsin—or back in Mexico.24 But then the media trail goes cold. It’s been almost a year. Have they found Armando?

  IT MIGHT BE WORTH PAYING MORE FOR YOUR YARD WORK

  Then there was the child rape case illustrating the perils of cheap lawn care. In 2012, immigrant Francisco Marquez Martinez, thirty-eight, raped a twelve-year-old girl after coming to mow her family’s lawn a day early when the girl and her nine-year-old sister were home alone. He asked to come inside when it began to rain, but she refused, so Marquez forced his way in, chased the girl to her parents’ bedroom, then to the bathroom, where he raped her in the bathtub.

  The internet was ablaze with the news that a thirty-eight-year-old landscaper had raped a client’s twelve-year-old girl. But not one newspaper stated that Marquez was an immigrant, much less an illegal immigrant. The truth first emerged when Marquez’s lawyer argued that his client had confessed only because he didn’t speak English. Still, somehow, Marquez managed to convey through his government-provided translator, in the alternative: He didn’t do it; he did it, but the girl seduced him; the sex was consensual; he thought she was seventeen; and, on final thought, he
didn’t have sex with her at all since he’s a married man who preached at his church.

  These were the headlines about the case from the only newspaper on Nexis that covered the story, at all, the Winston-Salem Journal:

  “Girl Says Man Hired by Family to Mow Lawn Raped Her”

  “Man Accused of Raping Girl Told Police He Thought She Was Older”

  “Man Accused of Raping Girl, 12, Tells Different Version of Incident”

  “Man Gets 25 Years for Rape of Girl, 12”25

  So again, readers would know the child rapist was a “man.” The Winston-Salem Journal was absolutely clear on that point. It isn’t a space problem: The newspaper was capable of packing all sorts of information into its headlines, such as the fact that the rapist was hired to mow the lawn, that he claimed he thought she was older, and that he was sentenced to twenty-five years. What’s the matter with “Illegal Alien Gardener Convicted of Raping Girl, 12”?

  The Journal’s articles on the case religiously noted that the paper “does not identify victims of sexual assault or their families.” (Except when the accused is a Kennedy or a Clinton.) Why not add: “or information about rape suspects’ immigration status”? It’s perfectly obvious that rape victims aren’t being identified, but readers have no way of knowing that “man” means “immigrant.”

  SPOT THE IMMIGRANT!

  CASE NO. 2 | HOMECOMING DANCE

  IN 2009, A ONE-HUNDRED-POUND SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD WHITE GIRL WAS GANG-RAPED by about a dozen men outside her homecoming dance at Richmond High School in San Francisco’s Bay Area. She had gotten bored with the dance and gone outside to call her father for a ride home when a boy she’d known since the seventh grade invited her to drink brandy with his friends in the courtyard.

  BRUTAL ATTACK

  The men got her drunk, at one point forcing brandy down her throat. Over the next few hours, the girl, an English honors student, was savagely beaten, gang-raped, sodomized, raped with a foreign object, and dragged over the concrete by her feet to the dumpster. The men even urinated on her.1 The attack was so brutal, one of the suspects tried to help his case by immediately admitting to the police, “I’ll be straight up with you, all I did was pee on her and take her ring.”2 When the ringleader was arrested, he shouted that it wasn’t rape because she was so drunk, “she didn’t even know what was going on.” In the alternative, he said, “She wanted it—she wanted all of us.”3