¡Adios, America!

by Ann Coulter

  26.Al Sharpton, Politics Nation, MSNBC, April 24, 2013.

  27.For example, every segregationist governor and every segregationist senator was a Democrat. For the details, see Ann Coulter, Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama (New York: Penguin, 2012).

  28.Robert D. Putnam, “E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-First Century,” Scandinavian Political Studies 30, no. 2 (2007), available online at http://www.aimlessgromar.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/j-1467-9477-2007-00176-x.pdf.

  29.Ibid.

  30.As Putnam described it: “[I]nhabitants of diverse communities tend to withdraw from collective life, to distrust their neighbours, regardless of the colour of their skin, to withdraw even from close friends, to expect the worst from their community and its leaders, to volunteer less, give less to charity and work on community projects less often, to register to vote less, to agitate for social reform more, but have less faith that they can actually make a difference, and to huddle unhappily in front of the television.” Ibid.

  31.Michael Jonas, “The Downside of Diversity,” New York Times, August 5, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/05/world/americas/05iht-diversity.1.6986248.html.

  32.Putnam, “E Pluribus Unum.”

  33.Ibid., Figure 4.

  34.All demographic data on cities come from “State & County QuickFacts,” U.S. Census Bureau, http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html. Putnam was using 2000 Census data.

  35.Putnam, “E Pluribus Unum,” Figures 3 and 5.

  36.Jeffrey S. Passel and D’Vera Cohn, “U.S. Population Projections: 2005–2050,” Pew Research Center Hispanic Trends Project, February 11, 2008, http://www.pewhispanic.org/2008/02/11/us-population-projections-2005-2050/. (“The Hispanic population, 42 million in 2005, will rise to 128 million in 2050.”)

  CHAPTER FIVE: THIRTY MILLION MEXICANS

  1.Diego Ribadeneira, “A Tenure Born in Tumult of Busing Comes to End at S. Boston High,” Boston Globe, November 16, 1989.

  2.Malaika Brown, “Tustin: Flags Unfurl as Tribute to Diversity,” Los Angeles Times, April 8, 1992, http://articles.latimes.com/1992-04-08/local/me-557_1_cultural-diversity.

  3.“A. G. Currie Middle School, 2009” [the most recent year for which the scores were available], Homefacts, http://www.homefacts.com/schools/California/Orange-County/Tustin/A-G-Currie-Middle.html.

  4.Ibid.

  5.Sara Gates, “Hollywood High School: Latino Population Dominates Student Body,” Huffington Post, February 22, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/22/hollywood-high-latinos_n_1294569.html.

  6.City News Service, April 30, 2010 (“Three Hollywood High School students . . . Josue Bran, Jessy Guerrero and Hugo Ascencio—each 19 and from Hollywood—were booked on suspicion of grand theft. . . .”); “City Attorney Delgadillo, Council President Garcetti Announce Launch of New School Safety Project to Hollywood High School,” US States News, April 18, 2008; Susannah Rosenblatt, “Teen Shot, Hurt in Attack Near School,” Los Angeles Times, December 4, 2007, http://articles.latimes.com/2007/dec/04/local/me-briefs4.s1; and Global Broadcast Database, ABC, April 14, 2006 (“Oceanside investigators arrested a 19-year-old Hollywood High School student for allegedly molesting a 13-year-old Oceanside girl.”).

  7.CNN Newsroom, February 21, 2012.

  8.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.

  9.Anna Brown and Eileen Patten, “Hispanics of Mexican Origin in the United States,” Pew Research Center Hispanic Trends Project, 2011, http://www.pewhispanic.org/2013/06/19/hispanics-of-mexican-origin-in-the-united-states-2011/. (“An estimated 33.5 million Hispanics of Mexican origin resided in the United States in 2011, according to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.”)

  10.“Facts for Features: Hispanic Heritage Month 2014: Sept. 15–Oct. 15,” U.S. Census Bureau, September 8, 2014, http://www.census.gov/newsroom/facts-for-features/2014/cb14-ff22.html.

  11.See generally “Hispanic Americans by the Numbers, 2012,” U.S. Census Bureau, 2012, http://www.infoplease.com/spot/hhmcensus1.html#ixzz3AlIoS52Z; John P. Tuman, David F. Damore, and Maria José Flor Ágreda, “Immigration and the Contours of Nevada’s Latino Population,” Brookings Mountain West, June 2013, http://www.unlv.edu/sites/default/files/24/BrookingsReport-ImmigrationAndContours.pdf.

  12.“State and County QuickFacts,” U.S. Census Bureau, accessed 2014, http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/35000.html; and Mark Hugo Lopez, “In 2014, Latinos Will Surpass Whites as Largest Racial/Ethnic Group in California,” Pew Research Center, January 24, 2014, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/01/24/in-2014-latinos-will-surpass-whites-as-largest-racialethnic-group-in-california/.

  13.U.S. Census Bureau, “Facts for Features.”

  14.“Table 19: California—Race and Hispanic Origin: 1850 to 1990,” U.S. Census Bureau, http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0056/tab19.pdf.

  15.Lopez, “In 2014, Latinos Will Surpass Whites.”

  16.In the last a decade, the white population of California has plummeted from 47 percent to 39 percent, while the Hispanic population has grown from 32 percent to 39 percent. Today, Hispanics make up 53.25 percent of the students in all California schools. All “minorities”—i.e., nonwhites—constitute 75 percent of the school population. “Fingertip Facts on Education in California—CalEdFacts,” California Department of Education, 2013, http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sd/cb/ceffingertipfacts.asp.

  17.“Rise in Public Benefits to Children of Illegal Immigrants in L.A. County Has Supervisor ‘Very Concerned,’” Los Angeles Times, September 3, 2010, http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/09/rise-in-public-benefits-to-children-of-illegal-immigrants-in-los-angeles-county-concerns-supervisor-michael-antonovich.html.

  18.Don E. Albrecht, “State of Nevada,” Western Rural Development Center, 2008, http://wrdc.usu.edu/files/uploads/Regional%20Data/NV/Nevada_WEB.pdf.

  19.Tuman, Damore, and Flor Ágreda, “Immigration and the Contours of Nevada’s Latino Population.”

  20.Elizabeth M. Grieco, Edward Trevelyan, et al., “The Size, Place of Birth, and Geographic Distribution of the Foreign-Born Population in the United States: 1960 to 2010,” U.S. Census Bureau, October 2012, Table 1 and p. 8, http://www.census.gov/population/foreign/files/WorkingPaper96.pdf.

  21.Ibid., Table 1 and p. 8.

  22.Joseph Russell and Jeanne Batalov, “European Immigrants in the United States,” Migration Policy Institute, July 26, 2012, http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/european-immigrants-united-states; Grieco, Trevelyan, et al., “The Size, Place of Birth, and Geographic Distribution,” Table 1 and p. 8.

  23.Ana Gonzalez-Barrera and Mark Hugo Lopez, “A Demographic Portrait of Mexican-Origin Hispanics in the United States,” Pew Research Center Hispanic Trends Project, May 1, 2013, http://www.pewhispanic.org/2013/05/01/a-demographic-portrait-of-mexican-origin-hispanics-in-the-united-states/.

  24.Based on a 5 percent sample, the Census Bureau estimated that there were about 1.9 million Spanish-speaking white people in the United States in 1940. “United States—Race and Hispanic Origin: 1790 to 1990,” U.S. Census Bureau, Table 1, http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0056/tab01.pf.

  25.Grieco, Trevelyan, et al., “The Size, Place of Birth, and Geographic Distribution,” 8.

  26.Jeffrey Passel and D’Vera Cohn, “Unauthorized Immigrant Population: National and State Trends, 2010,” Pew Research Center Hispanic Trends Project, February 1, 2011, http://www.pewhispanic.org/files/reports/133.pdf.

  27.Michael Hoefer, Nancy Rytina, and Bryan C. Baker, “Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population Residing in the United States: January 2008,” Department of Homeland Security, February 2009, http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/publications/ois_ill_pe_2008.pdf.

  28.See, e.g., Roger Lowenstein, “The Immigration Equation,” New York Times Magazine, July 9, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/20
06/07/09/magazine/09IMM.html. (“The latest estimate is that the United States has 11.5 million undocumented foreigners, and it’s those immigrants—the illegal ones—who have galvanized Congress.”)

  29.Robert Justich and Betty Ng, “The Underground Labor Force Is Rising to the Surface,” Bear Stearns Asset Management, January 3, 2005, http://www.steinreport.com/BearStearnsStudy.pdf.

  30.Carl Bialik, “In Counting Illegal Immigrants, Certain Assumptions Apply,” Wall Street Journal, May 7, 2010, http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704370704575228432695989918.

  31.Ibid.

  32.Margolis found a similarly massive undercount of Brazilians living in Boston, by comparing census figures with the number counted by the Boston Archdiocese and the Brazilian consulate. Justich and Ng, “The Underground Labor Force.”

  33.Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, “Illegal Aliens: Who Left the Door Open?,” Time, March 30, 2006, http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,995145,00.html.

  34.Edward Colby, “Dobbs Pins Down Illegal Immigrants, Give or Take 9 Million,” Columbia Journalism Review, March 31, 2006, http://www.cjr.org/politics/dobbs_pins_down_illegal_immigr.php?page=all#sthash.IkG9Z6cD.dpuf.

  35.See Passel and Cohn, “Unauthorized Immigrant Population”; and Hoefer, Rytina, and Baker, “Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population Residing in the United States,” 2.

  36.“Three Decades of Mass Immigration: The Legacy of the 1965 Immigration Act,” Center for Immigration Studies, September 1995, http://cis.org/1965ImmigrationAct-MassImmigration, citing Hearings before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization of the Committee on the Judiciary, 89th Cong. 1–3 (1965).

  37.Ibid., citing Washington Post, October 4, 1965, p. 16.

  38.Ibid., citing Hearings before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization of the Committee on the Judiciary, 89th Cong. 71, 119 (1965).

  39.Ibid., citing U.S. Congress, House, 1964 hearings, 418.

  40.Ibid., citing Hearings before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization of the Committee on the Judiciary, 89th Cong. 65 (1965).

  41.Ibid., citing Congressional Record, August 25, 1965, p. 21812.

  42.“Three Decades of Mass Immigration.”

  43.William Branigin, “Immigrants Shunning Idea of Assimilation,” Washington Post, May 25, 1998, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/meltingpot/melt0525a.htm.

  44.“Three Decades of Mass Immigration.”

  45.Nancy Foner, From Ellis Island to JFK: New York’s Two Great Waves of Immigration (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2000), finding that employers were more likely to hire immigrants over American blacks and Hispanics, expecting them to be more docile and hardworking, cited in Kimberly A. Huisman, “Why Maine? Secondary Migration Decisions Of Somali Refugees,” Ìrìnkèrindò: A Journal of African Migration, no. 5 (December 2011), 81, 98, http://www.africamigration.com/Issue%205/Articles/PDF/Kimberly-Huisman_Why-Maine.pdf.

  CHAPTER SIX: IMMIGRATION AS “MYSTERY BARGAIN BIN”

  1.See, e.g., Sebastian Rotella, “The American behind India’s 9/11—and How U.S. Botched Chances to Stop Him,” ProPublica, January 24, 2013, http://www.propublica.org/article/david-headley-homegrown-terrorist#chapter-3.

  2.William Booth, “One Nation, Indivisible: Is It History?,” Washington Post, February 22, 1998, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/meltingpot/melt0222.htm.

  3.Steven A. Camarota, “Immigrants in the United States: A Profile of America’s Foreign-Born Population,” Center for Immigration Studies, Table 7, August 2012, http://www.cis.org/sites/cis.org/files/articles/2012/immigrants-in-the-united-states-2012.pdf.

  4.Then–UN Representative Madeleine K. Albright quoted in John Bolton, “Wrong Turn in Somalia,” Foreign Affairs 73, no. 1, February 1994, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/49438/john-r-bolton/wrong-turn-in-somalia.

  5.Leslie Brooks Suzukamo, “Campaign Aims to Raise Awareness about Immigrants,” St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press, 1999.

  6.Minnesota News in Brief at 8:58 p.m. CST, the Associated Press State and Local Wire, November 9, 2010.

  7.“African-Born Population in U.S. Roughly Doubled Every Decade since 1970,” Census Bureau Reports, U.S. Census Bureau, October 1, 2014, http://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2014/cb14-184.html.

  8.Hearing: Beyond the Streets: America’s Evolving Gang Threat, House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, 112th Cong. (July 25, 2012) (testimony of Richard W. Stanek, sheriff of Hennepin County, Minnesota), available at http://judiciary.house.gov/_files/hearings/Hearings%202012/Stanek%2007252012.pdf. See also Dan Van Lehman and Omar Eno, “The Somali Bantu: Their History and Culture,” Center for Applied Linguistics, February 2003, available at http://www.hartfordinfo.org/issues/wsd/immigrants/somali_bantu.pdf, estimating that forty thousand Somalis lived in Minnesota in 2003. Well over ten thousand have immigrated to Minnesota since then. See, e.g., Martha H. Bigelow, Mogadishu on the Mississippi: Language, Racialized Identity, and Education (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). See also Karla Hult, “Somali Minnesotans, through the Eyes of Three Generations,” KARE-11, May 3, 2013, http://archive.kare11.com/rss/article/1024223/14/somali-minnesotans-through-the-eyes-of-three-generations; and “Total Ancestry Reported: Minnesota,” 2008–2012 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, U.S. Census Bureau, http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=bkmk. (Within the category of “Subsaharan African,” thirty-three thousand Minnesotans identify as “Somalian” and thirty-one thousand identify as “African.” It is believed that these figures undercount Somalians for a variety of reasons, such as overcrowding in rental units.)

  9.See, e.g., “Feds: Twin Cities Human Traffickers Enslaved Girls Younger Than 13 for a Decade,” St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press, November 7, 2010, http://www.twincities.com/ci_16555475 (“Charges in the 24-count indictment include sex trafficking of juveniles and conspiring to sex-traffic juveniles, obstruction of justice, perjury, auto theft and credit card fraud.”); Laura Yuen, “3 Guilty in Somali Gang Sex Trafficking Case,” Minnesota Public Radio News, May 4, 2012, http://www.mprnews.org/story/2012/05/04/sex-trafficking; and Hearing: Beyond the Streets.

  10.See Tino Sanandaji, “Don’t Believe the Hype: Somali Immigration to Minnesota Is a Complete Failure,” Super-Economy (blog), September 4, 2010, http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/09/dont-believe-hype-somali-immigration-to.html, citing the 2008 U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey; and Elizabeth Dunbar, “Comparing the Somali Experience in Minnesota to Other Immigrant Groups,” Minnesota Public Radio News, January 22, 2010, http://www.mprnews.org/story/2010/01/25/comparing-the-somali-experience-in-minnesota-to-other-immigrant-groups-of-immigrants-.

  11.See, e.g., “Mayors Seek Closure of Troubling Gaps,” Minneapolis (MN) Star Tribune, January 7, 2014. (“Changing people’s thinking about the value of every part of the city is essential to closing the income gap, achievement gap, health gap and all the other income- and race-based disparities that afflict the Twin Cities. . . . The arc of history has truly bent toward diversity and inclusivity.”)

  12.Kelly Smith and Paul Walsh, “Food Fight Erupts into Melee at South H.S.,” Minneapolis (MN) Star Tribune, February 15, 2013.

  13.See, e.g., Joe Coscarelli, “Long Island Teen Just Happened to Get into All 8 Ivy League Schools,” New York, April 1, 2014, http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/04/kwasi-enin-accepted-eight-ivy-league-schools.html. (“Kwasi Enin is 17 years old and better than you.”)

  14.See, e.g., Pam Belluck, “Mixed Welcome as Somalis Settle in a Maine City,” New York Times, October 15, 2002, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/15/us/mixed-welcome-as-somalis-settle-in-a-maine-city.html.

  15.Hassan v. City of Minneapolis, 489 F.3d 914 (8th Cir. 2007), available online at http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-8th-circuit/1378661.html.

  16.Art Hughes, “Somalis Outraged by Police Shooting,” Min
nesota Public Radio News, March 11, 2002, http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/200203/11_hughesa_mplsshooting/.

  17.Hassan v. City of Minneapolis.

  18.See, e.g., Belluck, “Mixed Welcome.”

  19.Scott Dolan, “Portland Teen Admits Break-In, Rape,” Portland (OR) Press Herald, April 18, 2013, http://www.pressherald.com/2013/04/18/portland-teen-pleads-guilty-to-break-in-rape/.

  20.Lisa Cornwell, “Man Caught in Mexico Sentenced in Ohio Child Rape,” Associated Press, March 16, 2012, available online at the Alliance (OH) Review, http://www.the-review.com/latest%20headlines/2012/03/15/man-caught-in-mexico-sentenced-in-ohio-child-rape.

  21.State v. Isa, 850 S.W.2d 876 (1993) (S. Ct. MO), March 23, 1993, available online at http://www.leagle.com/decision/19931726850SW2d876_11671.xml/STATE%20v.%20IS.

  22.State v. Isa; Judith VandeWater and Tim Bryant, “From 1991: FBI Tapes Implicate Father in Daughter’s Death,” St. Louis (MO) Dispatch, October 23, 1991, http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/from-fbi-tapes-implicate-father-in-daughter-s-death/article_efafe11f-f568-5f92-95da-1bf8beebfab5.html; Joe Treen, “‘Die, My Daughter, Die!,’” People, January 20, 1992, http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20111801,00.html; and “Terror and Death at Home Are Caught in F.B.I. Tape,” New York Times, October 28, 1991, http://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/28/us/terror-and-death-at-home-are-caught-in-fbi-tape.html.

  23.“Terror and Death at Home.”

  24.Ibid.

  25.Ibid.

  26.Margaret Talbot, “Baghdad on the Plains,” New Republic, August 11, 1997.

  27.Doriane Lambelet Coleman, “Culture, Cloaked in Mens Rea,” South Atlantic Quarterly 100, no. 4 (Fall 2001), http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1924&context=faculty_scholarship.

  28.Talbot, “Baghdad on the Plains.”

  29.Coleman, “Culture, Cloaked in Mens Rea.”

  30.Michael Reese, “A Tragedy in Santa Monica,” Newsweek, May 6, 1985.

  31.Ibid.

  32.Ruben Navarrette, “Boston Bombing Shouldn’t Derail Immigration Reform,” CNN Wire, April 20, 2013, http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/20/opinion/navarrette-immigration-boston/.