by Ann Coulter
While international organizations are constantly having to ask other nations to please take rape seriously,54 Americans have been taking rape seriously since the first settlers arrived, four centuries ago. But our post-1965 immigration policy is creating an America more like the rest of the world. We aren’t helping the women of the Third World by bringing millions of them here. As Tocqueville also said, “Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.”
This is where numbers make a difference. We’re not changing the immigrants, they’re changing us. The rape of little girls isn’t even considered a crime in Latino culture—and that culture is becoming our culture. Gloria Trevi, the international pop star known as “the Mexican Madonna,” nonchalantly told a reporter for the New York Times that sex with a child is acceptable in Mexico. “In the United States, a minor is a minor, and that’s a crime,” but in Mexico, she said, if the girl is over twelve, “it’s not a violation, and you can’t say anything.”55 In fact, in thirty-one of thirty-two states in Mexico, the age of consent for sex is twelve. Only in Mexico State is it fourteen.56 Credible accusations that Trevi had pimped twelve-year-old girls to her manager, Sergio Andrade, a man three times their age, only increased her popularity in Mexico.57
A book about police rape investigations reports that American policemen are learning to “be understanding of cultural differences” and keep an “open mind” about child rape because “the Hispanic culture is more accepting of statutory rape.”58 Describing his experiences working in one Hispanic community, an American detective said, “I have a large group of Hispanic men in their thirties and forties who are having intercourse with young girls. I’m being told it’s a cultural thing.” Hospitals would alert him to babies born to thirteen-year-olds impregnated by much older men, and he’d show up at the girl’s home, expecting to find parents ready to string up the guy. Instead, he said, “the family will say it’s a blessing and we’re so happy. I’ll explain it’s illegal, they cut me right off. I get a lot of those too.”59
In 2005, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, was less than 10 percent Hispanic; more than half of all statutory rape victims were Hispanic.60 The county gave up on prosecuting child rape cases because, as the chairman of the health committee, Norman Mitchell, said, “I don’t want to waste the community’s time on one item when we have a lot of items before us.”61 Has the New York Times published anything about this? CNN? The Wall Street Journal? A 2010 U.S. government study of two thousand adult Latino women in America found that 8 percent of respondents said they had been victims of childhood sexual abuse—compared with a national rate of childhood sexual abuse of about 0.1 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.62
Transplanting millions of people, en masse, from the Third World to the United States won’t change their cultures any more than moving New Yorkers to Vermont made them flinty Republicans. Instead, Vermont became socialist. The idea that backward peasants will instantly acquire the characteristics of Americans is the kind of homeopathic magic New Guinea primitives would believe.
I know how we’ll get Third World people to give up child rape, slavery, animal sacrifice, and human dismemberment!
Bring them Christianity? Teach them to read? Give them economics textbooks?
No—I’ve noticed that successful middle-class people live in nice houses in American suburbs, so we’ll move illiterate peasants to American suburbs.
This is what Democrats and Marco Rubio are trying to do to our country: Bring in the depraved cultures of the Third World and pretend we’re changing them, rather than them changing us. Other countries are always welcome to adopt American ideas about equality before the law and Anglo-Saxon morality. They don’t need to leave home to do that. Instead, America is just bringing in a lot of rapists.
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KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL MULTICULTURAL
NO ONE SERIOUSLY BELIEVES THAT BRINGING IN HORDES OF THIRD WORLD people has no effect on the environment. Preserving natural resources is an idiosyncrasy of prosperous cultures: Mexico is still in the slash-and-burn stage of capitalism, about a hundred years away from caring about the environment. Our illegal alien population alone is the size of Peru. The Pew Research Center estimates that in thirty-five years the United States’ population will be 438 million, of whom 100 million will be immigrants and their children. Numbers like that cannot help but to degrade America’s national parks and wilderness areas.
Will that wake up the bought-off environmentalists? They used to care about gridlock, overcrowding, loss of parkland, and exhaustion of natural resources. Not anymore. Today’s environmentalists turn a blind eye as 25 million people tramp through delicate ecosystems, set fire to national parks, kill livestock, dump tons of soiled diapers and Pepsi bottles in the desert, and deface ancient Native American sites. Political correctness demands that no one notice immigrants’ toll on the environment.
ACCUSATIONS OF BIGOTRY GO UP IN SMOKE—ALONG WITH OUR NATIONAL PARKS
In 2011, after a series of devastating wildfires raged through Arizona, burning half a million acres of land, Senator John McCain said something uncharacteristically sensible: “There is substantial evidence that some of these fires have been caused by people who have crossed our border illegally. The answer to that part of the problem is to get a secure border.”1
Instantly, McCain was attacked as a nativist xenophobe. We have no idea who set the fires. It was probably a camper. Illegal alien activist Randy Parraz sneered of McCain: “It’s easier to fan the flames of intolerance, especially in Arizona,”2 and the pro–illegal alien Washington Post ran this bracingly original headline: “John McCain Fans the Fires of Immigration Intolerance in Arizona.”3 La Raza’s Daniel Ortega accused McCain of spreading “fear and hate.” Representative Raul Grijalva, also from Arizona, put out a press release the day after McCain’s remarks accusing him of provoking “an extreme anti-immigrant and anti-Latino atmosphere in Arizona.”4
Five months later, the Government Accountability Office released its investigative report on Arizona wildfires: They’re mostly caused by illegal aliens.5
When McCain first made his remarks about illegal aliens being behind most of the Arizona wildfires, Forest Service spokesman Tom Berglund stridently denied that illegals had caused one specific fire,6 neglecting to mention that illegals were the single largest cause of all of Arizona’s wildfires. The Environmental Protection Agency issues regulations demanding that pesticides be purer than dirt in the ground, but then the government deliberately lies to us about illegal immigrants burning down our national parks.
Of the seventy-seven human-caused fires on federal or tribal land in Arizona between 2006 and 2010 investigated by the GAO, a cause could be determined in sixty cases. Fully half of those were caused by illegal aliens. Only five were caused by campers neglecting to fully extinguish a campfire, and the rest were freak accidents.7 One of the reasons the GAO was able to review only seventy-seven fires was that the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service couldn’t spare any agents for investigations. They were too busy protecting “firefighters and their equipment from illegal aliens.”
Apparently, when illegals see border patrol agents, they try to distract them by throwing lighted matches in the brush to start fires. Not only do illegal immigrants intentionally set wildfires, but they violently attack firefighters trying to extinguish the blazes. Fires are allowed to rage, because fire crews are forced to wait for law enforcement protection. Arizona’s first major fire of 2009 occurred in Hog Canyon in the Peloncillo Mountains. With no law enforcement available to provide nighttime support, firefighters had to abandon their efforts at dusk. Overnight, the fire spread from three hundred acres to three thousand acres, eventually consuming seventeen thousand acres of parkland.
Illegal aliens also prevent firefighters from using their radios. As the Forest Service blandly states: “[F]irefighters are instructed not to use radios when they e
ncounter illegal border crossers because illegal border crossers may believe that firefighters are reporting their location to law enforcement and react violently.”8 I wonder if it would help if firefighters didn’t have to worry about being attacked by illegal aliens. And wouldn’t it be a big help if there were half as many wildfires? Calculating only the cost of fires on national parks, a fence on the border is a bargain.
AMERICANS BEGIN A LIFETIME OF SERVICE TO FOREIGN LAWBREAKERS
The Forest Service had once gamely suggested trying to identify “the group most likely to start fires,” but once the evidence was in, they buried it. To blame illegal aliens would be playing the old “blame the perpetrator” game.
Despite the evidence adduced by the GAO showing that illegal immigrants are both the single largest cause of wildfires and also the biggest impediment to extinguishing them, the government report dared not suggest building a fence. We can’t do that because fences don’t work! Diversity is a strength! Instead, our government decided that 100 percent of the price of illegal aliens’ fire setting should be paid by Americans. Let’s teach Americans about fire prevention.
After noticing that a lot of the wildland fires in California’s Cleveland National Forest were being set by illegal aliens, for example, the Border Agency Fire Council in Southern California decided the solution was to hire Americans to go into the areas trafficked by illegals and put their fires out for them. Maybe we could cook their food and give them space heaters, too! Not incidentally, the Fire Council is made up of forty-three U.S. and Mexican government agencies. Weirdly, it didn’t occur to them to stop the illegal activity leading to the fires. Instead of being made a laughingstock, the Fire Council’s approach was touted as an innovative approach by the GAO in its report to Congress.9
DRUG CARTELS IN OUR NATIONAL PARKS
Starting enormous conflagrations in our national parks may be the least of illegal immigrants’ attacks on this country’s natural beauty. Because of new border restrictions after 9/11—I guess it was possible to tighten the borders!—our dear friends in Mexico moved their drug cartel operations directly into America’s parks. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks—committed by immigrants—a lot of Americans decided to take their vacations here in the United States. If they went to one of our national parks, they might have been threatened with guns by other immigrants.10
One hunter in the Angeles National Forest was seized by illegal aliens and held at gunpoint for getting too close to their pot farm on American parkland. When law enforcement officers later approached the area, the cartel members shot an agent.11 “These guys shoot people,” a Forest Service agent told the New York Times, and “they do not distinguish between police, hunters or campers.”12 The Mexicans also protect their pot gardens with bear traps, trip wires rigged to shotguns, and razor blade–equipped booby traps.13
In 2003, a national parks spokesman confirmed that in this “new onslaught on the parks,” seizures of marijuana crops in some areas had shot up by 800 percent—“far greater than anything we’ve ever seen before.”14 At least we get absolute honesty from the government. One month after U.S. Park Rangers had arrested eight illegal aliens from Mexico tending a marijuana farm in the middle of Sequoia National Park, President Bush hailed Mexican immigrants for their contributions to the American economy.15
With little media attention and complete disregard by President Bush, Mexican organized crime continued its seizure of America’s national parks, undeterred. In 2010, there were three shootings in the Sonoran Desert National Monument. Two illegal alien drug smugglers were killed by other illegal alien drug smugglers and an Arizona County deputy sheriff was shot.16 In the Tucson sector, which includes the Coronado National Forest and the Sonoran Desert National Monument, federal land officials spend 75 to 97 percent of their time responding to threats from illegal aliens.
Armed illegal aliens were in control of our national parks, so government officials leapt to action by shutting down the parks. A majority of the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument was closed to U.S. citizens for more than a decade because it was too dangerous.17
Another bright idea of the government was to warn Americans not to enter federal lands where they might encounter armed illegal aliens:
DANGER—PUBLIC WARNING
TRAVEL NOT RECOMMENDED
Active Drug and Human Smuggling Area
Visitors May Encounter Armed Criminals and Smuggling Vehicles Traveling at High Rates of Speed
Stay Away From Trash, Clothing, Backpacks, and Abandoned Vehicles
If You See Suspicious Activity, Do Not Confront! Move Away and Call 911
BLM Encourages Visitors To Use Public Lands North of Interstate18
Americans are not allowed in certain parts of their own national parks because of possible clashes with illegal immigrants. How long was I unconscious?
NYT: IT’S BETTER TO BE BROWN THAN GREEN
The environmental damage done to federal parkland by the Mexican pot growers is breathtaking. According to USA Today, the illegals “scar the landscape by crudely terracing hillsides that erode under winter rain. They spill pesticides, fertilizer and diesel fuel used to power generators that run extensive drip-irrigation systems. They dam creeks for water sources, plant salsa gardens, disfigure trees and leave behind tons of garbage, human waste and litter.”19 Park officers find deer carcasses hanging from trees, owls impaled on posts, and claws from grisly bears displayed as trophies.20
Except for one fully brainwashed government official, who said, “I don’t want to single out one group,”21 there was no mistaking who was dumping pesticides, chopping down trees, and threatening hikers in our parks. In 2005, James Parker, a senior narcotics agent with the Campaign Against Marijuana Planting, told USA Today: “In the last two or three years almost 100% of the gardens we’ve eradicated are Mexican drug cartel gardens.”22 Even the New York Times had to admit it was Mexican illegal aliens. “Ninety-nine percent of the people we arrest or investigate are from Mexico,” a SWAT team leader in Tulare County told the Times. Forest Service Special Agent Laura Mark said, “Ninety to 95 percent of the marijuana in California is now grown by Mexican nationals who work for the drug cartels.”23
Following this explosion of honesty in the Times, the paper mostly dropped the subject. The Times will instruct readers to put a two-liter soda bottle in their toilet tanks and to unplug DVRs for a “greener home.”24 But it hides information about illegal aliens destroying millions of acres of precious national parkland. That of course pales in comparison to the environmental damage wreaked by working toilets. Between 2001 and 2014, the Times ran only one other article mentioning the illegal immigrant marijuana farms in our national parks.25 Someone should tell the Times the Mexican pot growers are American loggers.
Although the pot farms are entirely Mexican operated, the Los Angeles Times reports that the cartels are working with Middle Eastern terrorist groups, including Hezbollah. That seems like a pretty big story to me. The New York Times never mentioned it. Times readers will be so busy rigging their toilet tanks to save water, they’ll never know that our national parks are being decimated in order to fund foreign terrorists.
DUMPING POLLUTANTS BY THE WORLD’S TALLEST TREE
In 2008, the National Park Service arrested five illegal aliens who had commandeered several acres of land in the Redwood National Park for a pot farm within six miles of the world’s tallest tree. The Mexicans had dumped pesticides, fertilizer, and trash in the middle of this international landmark, doing untold damage to the forest.26 Three of the five illegal aliens arrested at the site had already been deported once.
Like something out of Pravda, the New York Times not only neglected to report on the illegal aliens’ desecration of a redwood forest, but ten days after the pot farm was discovered, prattled about “dreadlocked hippies” in houses near Redwood National Park, “where marijuana is covertly grown.”27 In the Soviet era, the only way Russians knew there had been a plane crash was that the Soviet
press would suddenly be bristling with stories about American air disasters. Today, the only way for Times readers to know that Mexican illegal aliens are dumping pollutants next to irreplaceable sequoia trees is by reading about hippies with indoor grow-lights near a redwood forest.
The Mexican assault on America’s national parks goes well beyond what is absolutely necessary to cultivate marijuana crops. Reporters who have visited the sites gape in horror at the trash illegal aliens have left behind. Amid the plethora of two (2) New York Times stories on the pot farms, one said that law enforcement officers have found “elaborate tree-houses, makeshift showers and, invariably, trash and pesticides, much of which ends up in streams and creeks.”28 The Fresno Bee reported that the illegal immigrants leave behind “tons of trash” in addition to poaching deer and other park animals.29 The Los Angeles Times said of one camp: “Trash was strewn everywhere—empty cans, torn packets of noodles, a crusty leather rifle scabbard. A soggy sleeping bag was stuffed behind a tree.” The chief law enforcement officer at Sequoia National Park swept his hand toward the piles of trash, saying, “Nice, eh? Welcome to your national park.”30
LOOK AT MEXICO’S NATIONAL PARKS TO SEE OUR FUTURE
For a glimpse into America’s future, consider how Mexicans treat their own environment. In Mexico’s most famous national park, a ten-thousand-year-old evergreen forest designated by presidential decree as a biosphere reserve, illegal loggers chop down about seventy mature trees a day, or “a small forest a week,” according to the New York Times.31 While environmentalists from around the world send millions of dollars to Mexico to preserve the forest, local peasants indignantly announce that the land belongs to them and slaughter the trees.