by Ann Coulter
The point of this exercise is to ask: Why didn’t you know that, reader? Why—to this day—do so many conservatives tout Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz as “bold colors, no pastels” Republicans—especially compared with that miserable establishment RINO, Mitt Romney? Would the NRA hide truthful information about candidates’ positions on guns from their members? Immigration groups do! Numbers USA gave Romney a “C+” on immigration. C+! Anti-immigration websites carped about Romney throughout the campaign. What does he have to do? Build the fence himself?
Fake conservatives and tea partiers followed the crowd and slammed Romney as an “establishment” Republican. Alleged conservative spokesmen put Romney in the same camp as Chris Christie and Jeb Bush. It would be as if gun-rights supporters couldn’t tell the difference between Senator Joni Ernst and Representative Carolyn McCarthy, or pro-lifers described Rick Santorum and Susan Collins in the same breath.
On the eve of the Republican sweep in the 2014 midterm elections, Romney predicted on Fox News Sunday that a Republican Congress would “deal with those who come here illegally”28—heaven help him if he had said “self-deport” again! Conservatives went ballistic, accusing him of supporting amnesty, betraying them, losing his marbles. Within hours, Breitbart.com was headlining Sarah Palin’s denunciation of Romney: “Gov. Romney Is in Never-Never Land on This One.”29
Maybe “amnesty” is what Romney meant when he said “deal with the illegal immigrants already here,” although he had never supported it before, despite enormous pressure to do so. But do these hairy-chested amnesty opponents know that every other possible GOP presidential candidate has said explicitly what they’re accusing Romney of saying implicitly? There’s some weird psychological block when conservatives are fiery with indignation at Romney for a vague statement about immigration—because it could be interpreted to mean what every other Republican says in no uncertain terms.
The NRA never loses and the anti-immigration groups never win because immigration opponents don’t lift a finger to help politicians who are on their side. Voters are dying to send a message on immigration, but all they get is lies from alleged conservatives about how to do that. Romney must wonder why he bothered holding a position so unpopular with his donors on immigration. Perhaps he genuinely believes that turning America into Mexico is a bad idea.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: YOU CAN’T HAVE EVERYTHING
Democrats have no choice but to keep pushing to admit ever more poor immigrants: They can’t win without the votes of the Third World. The intentional transformation of America into some other country ought to be killing them at the polls, but it’s not, because Democrats have hoodwinked Republicans into pushing for the exact same thing. How did Republicans end up on the wrong side of the question: Should the Democrats be able to establish their political hegemony for all time?
Any party incapable of winning the vote of white men ought to hang its head in shame. Instead, Democrats denounce and abuse white people, and Republicans act embarrassed about having whites vote for them. Why are white votes bad? (To be sure, black Americans don’t like mass immigration, either, but Democrats don’t care what blacks think.)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell needs to get business lobbyists in a car and drive them around with a gun to their heads for an hour, explaining: We can give you regulatory reform, OSHA reform, tax relief, tort reform. But if we give you immigration, we won’t be in a position to give you anything else, ever again, and you’ll have to take your chances with Nancy Pelosi. The Chamber of Commerce has got to learn: You can’t have it all.
Then, Republicans should ask Democrats: Why is it so vitally important to keep bringing in new workers to compete with low-skilled Americans and drive down their wages?
Americans love to mock the French for rolling over for Hitler, but at least they had Panzers rolling through Paris. America has chosen to do nothing as our country is taken away from us without a shot fired. The endless flow of needy immigrants is soaking up every last dollar of government aid, every low-wage job, every hour of assistance, every quantum of charitable giving. After all the country has been through only since 9/11—two wars, repeated terrorist attacks, the housing crash, widespread unemployment, and underemployment—America needs to worry about Americans. How much is the price of guilt for having a successful society before we’re entitled say to the poor of the world, Enough! We gave at the office.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
LEGIONS OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE READ THIS BOOK SHALL REMAIN NAMELESS, ON account of the maniacal blacklisting in store for anyone with second thoughts about turning America into Mexico. But some in my crowd are either crazy enough, or love their country enough, to allow me to thank them publicly without even using aliases.
Ned Rice is, as ever, a joke-writing machine. I’d rush to finish chapters just to see what jokes he’d come up with—many for my own amusement, but a lot also made it into the book.
Same with Jim Hughes, who does not write professionally, but rather saves his best work for when he signs on to the computer late at night after a few cocktails. His lengthy late-night rants were so hilarious that I’ve made him publish some of them. (See, e.g., “Maybe the Obamacare Enrollment Figures Are on That Malaysian Airliner!,” Daily Caller, April 24, 2014.)
Trish Baker and Robert Caplain have been on this subject for years, sending me news items, in addition to religiously reading and editing every chapter. Melanie Graham, one of my Circle of Deciders, always e-mailed back immediately and gave me a line that still makes me laugh. Merrill Kinstler, one of my regular talking partners for about fifteen years, let a few of my books slip by without comment. Not this one.
Noticeably, Ned, Jim, Trish, Robert, Melanie, and Merrill are all Californians, so they have a close-up view of what our new country is going to be like. In fact, nearly all my friends who were willing to be named are Californians. It’s remarkable how quickly people in a state that has been overwhelmed with illegal aliens are able to grasp the fine points of my thesis. If it’s not a hit in 2015, this book will be HUGE as soon as the other forty-nine states become California (without the great weather and gorgeous beaches). I’m sorry to be the one to inform you of this, but that will make all of you the Kardashians.
Others who have helped with this book, mostly by reading chapters and voting on titles, but in other ways, as well, are: Bill Armistead, Jon Caldara, Rodney Conover, Mallory and Thomas Danaher, David Friedman, James Fulford, Ron Gordon, Kevin Harrington, David Limbaugh, Jay Mann, Jim Moody, Dan Travers, Jon Tukel, Marshall Sella, Peter Thiel, Kelly Victory, and Younis Zubchevich. Also, thanks to Regnery for publishing this book and to my editors, Elizabeth Kantor and Marji Ross, for helping me cut 150 pages when it was approaching the length of The Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant. Challenge any sentence in this book, and I’ve got fifty more examples waiting in the outtakes.
Finally, everyone mentioned here agrees with every single word in this book. Don’t let them tell you otherwise.
NOTES
CHAPTER ONE: THE END OF AMERICA WON’T BE TELEVISED
1.Heather MacDonald, “Myth Debunked: A Latin Conservative Tidal Wave Is Not Coming,” National Review, July 24, 2006, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/218274/myth-debunked/heather-mac-donald; and “Young Latinas and a Cry for Help,” editorial, New York Times, July 21, 2006 (“The experience of International Planned Parenthood across Latin America shows . . . the high prevalence of unplanned pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections and H.I.V., and sexual violence among this demographic group.”).
2.See, e.g., “Young Latinas and a Cry for Help,” editorial, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/21/opinion/21fri3.html. (“About one-quarter of Latina teens drop out [of high school], a figure surpassed only by Hispanic young men, one-third of whom do not complete high school.”)
3.See, e.g., “Young Latinas and a Cry for Help.” (“Latinas, especially those in recently arrived families, often live in poverty and without health insurance.”)
4.MacDonald, “Hispanic Family Values? Runaway Illegitimacy Is Creating a New U.S. Underclass,” City Journal, Autumn 2006, http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_4_hispanic_family_values.html.
5.See, e.g., Mark Hugo Lopez, “Three-Fourths of Hispanics Say Their Community Needs a Leader,” Pew Research Center Hispanic Trends Project, October 22, 2013, http://www.pewhispanic.org/2013/10/22/three-fourths-of-hispanics-say-their-community-needs-a-leader/.
6.See, e.g., Alexis G. Garcia, “Puerto Ricans vs. Dominicans: A Never-Ending Controversy,” Latinitas, February 22, 2012, http://mylatinitas.com/profiles/blogs/puerto-ricans-vs-dominicans-a-never-ending-controversy; and Cristina Saralegui, “Bashing Hispanics Who Are ‘Too’ White,” Chicago Tribune, September 29, 1994 (“After having spent my entire life in Miami and never having been subjected to prejudice of any kind from English-speaking Americans, I learned for the first time that there was such a thing as Hispanics versus Hispanics bashing.”).
7.Drew Griffin and Kathleen Johnston, “Obama Played Hardball in First Chicago Campaign,” CNN.com, May 30, 2008, http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/29/obamas.first.campaign/.
8.See, e.g., Joseph Katz, “Legal Background to the ‘Palestinian Right of Return,’” EretzYisroel, http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/legal.html. (“Clearly, the ‘rights’ and ‘general welfare’ of the great majority of Israel’s citizens would not long survive the admission of some 4 to 5 million Palestinian refugees [for this is the number of refugees that the Palestinians now claim] who neither owe the country allegiance nor identify themselves as Israelis.”)
9.Richard Rubin, “Kenneth Lay, Deceased Enron CEO, Triumphs over IRS in Tax Court,” Bloomberg News, August 30, 2011, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-08-29/enron-ceo-kenneth-lay-bests-irs-in-tax-court. (“The U.S. government continues to pursue a $12.6 million civil forfeiture case against Linda Lay, which was initiated three months after her husband’s death. The Justice Department sued to recover $10.1 million from a family investment partnership, as well as $22,680 in cash and at least $2.5 million from the couple’s penthouse condominium in Houston.”)
10.Quoted on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, June 20, 2013.
11.Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, S. 744, 113th Congress (2013), Section 2537; and Jon Feere, “Immigration Bill Contains Slush Funds for Pro-Amnesty Groups,” Center for Immigration Studies, May 1, 2013, http://cis.org/feere/immigration-bill-contains-slush-funds-pro-amnesty-groups.
12.“California Latino Voters,” Moore Information Opinion Research, March 2011, question 17, http://www.moore-info.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/NewPoll-LatinoVoterViewsonGOPinCA.pdf.
13.Univision, “Winning with Hispanics in Midterms: The Why, the How, and the What,” 18, available on Docstoc: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/172113794/Univision%20Survey%20CA%20Latino%20Voters.pdf.
14.Michael Dear, “Mr. President, Tear Down This Wall,” New York Times, March 11, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/11/opinion/mr-president-tear-down-this-wall.html.
15.Andrew Rice, “Life on the Line,” New York Times, July 28, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/magazine/life-on-the-line-between-el-paso-and-juarez.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0.
16.Border Patrol Strategy: Progress and Challenges in Implementation and Assessment Efforts: Testimony before the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security, Committee on Homeland Security House of Representatives; Statement of Rebecca Gambler, Acting Director: Homeland Security and Justice Issues (Washington, DC: Government Accountability Office, May 8, 2012), 5, http://www.gao.gov/assets/600/590686.pdf.
17.See, e.g., “Immigrants, History and the House,” New York Times, August 19, 1982, http://www.nytimes.com/1982/08/19/opinion/immigrants-history-and-the-house.html (calling the Simpson-Mazzoli bill a “one-time amnesty”).
18.“The Seven Amnesties Passed by Congress,” Numbers USA, June 7, 2011, https://www.numbersusa.com/content/learn/illegal-immigration/seven-amnesties-passed-congress.html.
CHAPTER TWO: TEDDY: WHY NOT THE THIRD WORLD?
1.“Reproductive Health: Preterm Birth,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, October 30, 2014, http://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/MaternalInfantHealth/PretermBirth.htm; and American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, “Prenatal Care Is Important to Healthy Pregnancies,” open letter, February 21, 2012, http://acog.org/-/media/Departments/Government-Relations-and-Outreach/20120221FactsareImportant.pdf?la=en (“[T]he economic burden associated with preterm birth in the United States was at least $26.2 billion annually, or $51,600 per infant born preterm. . . . Preterm birth accounts for approximately 35% of all U.S. health care spending on infants . . .”).
2.Mila Koumpilova, “New Somali Refugee Arrivals in Minnesota Are Increasing,” Minneapolis (MN) Star Tribune, November 1, 2014, http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/281197521.html.
3.Ibid.
4.See, e.g., “Federal Government Grants to Support USCCB MRS [Migration and Refugee Services] Programs and Services,” United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, no date, http://www.usccb.org/about/migration-and-refugee-services/federal-government-grants-to-support-usccb-mrs-programs-and-services.cfm.
5.Fifty-seven percent of households with children headed by any immigrant, legal or illegal, use at least one welfare program, compared with 39 percent of native households with children. Steven A. Camarota, “Welfare Use by Immigrant Households with Children: A Look at Cash, Medicaid, Housing, and Food Programs,” Center for Immigration Studies, April 2011, http://cis.org/immigrant-welfare-use-2011.
6.Fifty-seven percent of household with children headed by all immigrants, legal and illegal, collect at least one form of welfare. Camarota, “Welfare Use by Immigrant Households with Children.”
7.Camarota, “Immigrants in the United States, 2010: A Profile of America’s Foreign-Born Population,” Table 10, Center for Immigration Studies, August 2012, http://www.cis.org/sites/cis.org/files/articles/2012/immigrants-in-the-united-states-2012.pdf.
8.Ibid.
9.Ibid.
10.Philip Martin and Elizabeth Midgley, Immigration: Shaping and Reshaping America, Population Bulletin, Population Reference Bureau, December 2006; Robert Pear, “Bush Plan Seeks to Restore Food Stamps for Noncitizens,” New York Times, January 10, 2002, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/10/us/bush-plan-seeks-to-restore-food-stamps-for-noncitizens.html; and Shawn Fremstad, “Immigrants and Welfare Reauthorization,” Center of Budget and Policy Priorities, February 4, 2002, http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=1477.
11.According to the pro–Third World immigration Migration Policy Institute, in 1960, 75 percent of all immigrants living in the United States were European; by 2010 only 12 percent were and most of those were Eastern European. Joseph Russell and Jeanne Batalova, “European Immigrants in the United States,” Migration Policy Institute, July 26, 2012, http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/european-immigrants-united-states. See also Judith Waldrop and Kimberly Crews, “Now and Then: The U.S. Reaches 300 Million,” Social Education, September 1, 2006. (“In 2004, the foreign-born residents who entered the United States in 2000 or later were 10 percent European, 23 percent Asian, and 59 percent Latin American. Among the foreign born who settled in the United States before 1970, 39 percent were European, 14 percent were Asian, and 37 percent were Latin American.”)
12.See e.g., Barbara Pinto, “Muslim Cab Drivers Refuse to Transport Alcohol, and Dogs,” ABC News, January 26, 2007, http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=2827800.
13.See, e.g., Gregory Hywood, “Democrats Seek Market Formula,” Australian Financial Review, March 2, 1988 (“In the 10 elections since Mr Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1932 victory, no Democratic candidate has received more than 50 per cent of the white vote. In the past five elections, only one candidate—Mr Jimmy Carter in 1976—received more than 40 per cent.”); and Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom, America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), 291 (“Few Amer
icans realize it, but the Democratic party would have lost every presidential election from 1968 and to the present if only whites had been allowed to vote. Jimmy Carter carried only 47 percent of the white vote in 1976, but was elected because his 83 percent support from blacks more than made up the deficit. Bill Clinton did even worse among white voters, getting only 39 percent of their vote in 1992 and 43 percent in 1995. But Clinton, too, got five out of six black votes and that was enough to give him wins over George Bush in 1992 and Bob Dole in 1996.”).
Between FDR and Johnson’s rout in 1964, only two Democratic presidents were elected: John F. Kennedy and Harry Truman. Kennedy won 49 percent of the white vote to Nixon’s 51 percent. “Election Polls—Vote by Groups, 1960–1964,” Gallup, http://www.gallup.com/poll/9454/election-polls-vote-groups-19601964.aspx.
Truman won a bare majority of the white vote at about 47 percent to Dewey’s 44 percent, but Truman captured two-thirds of the black vote, carrying him to electoral victory. See Manning Marable, Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945–2006 (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007), 23, available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=qifpm1zjCLkC&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=could+truman+have+won+without+the+black+vote?&source=bl&ots=iZR2AWYoP4&sig=LvtqfUNu9HPNepA_fiYYFzwf5OE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RLdKVLODIoLCsASAuYDQDQ&ved=0CE4Q6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=could%20truman%20have%20won%20without%20the%20black%20vote%3F&f=false; and Tom Curry, “How Truman Defied the Odds in 1948,” NBC News, September 12, 2008, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26661213/ns/politics-decision_08/t/how-truman-defied-odds/.
14.Patrick Reddy, “Immigration: The Real Kennedy Legacy,” Public Perspective, Roper Center, October/November 1998, http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/public-perspective/ppscan/96/96018.pdf.
15.See, e.g., William Branigin, “INS Accused of Giving In to Politics; White House Pressure Tied to Citizen Push,” Washington Post, March 4, 1997.