by Ann Coulter
33.Associated Press, “Friends Say N.Y. Shooter Angry at America,” Anderson (SC) Independent-Mail, April 5, 2009. (“Jiverly Wong was upset over losing his job at a vacuum plant, didn’t like people picking on him for his limited English and once angrily told a co-worker, ‘America sucks.’”)
34.“Ople: No Filipino Killed in Chicago Shootout,” INQ7.net (Manila), August 29, 2003, http://web.archive.org/web/20031219113344/http://www.inq7.net/brk/2003/aug/29/brkofw_2-1.htm. (“Ople said, however, he ordered the consulate to verify and ensure that no Filipinos were harmed when the gunman, identified as Mexican-born Salvador Tapia shot and killed six people in an auto parts warehouse before being shot and killed by the police on Wednesday.”)
35.See, e.g., Frank Main and Carlos Sadovi, “Gun First Bought in Suburb in 1967,” Chicago Sun-Times, August 29, 2003, http://web.archive.org/web/20030830025858/http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-lucky29.html.
36.Frank Bruni, “Rock Band’s Promise Was Bright Until Gunman Shattered Their Hope,” New York Times, February 25, 1997, http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/25/nyregion/rock-band-s-promise-was-bright-until-gunman-shattered-their-hope.html.
37.Melissa Healy, “Matthew Gross’ Life Changed at the Empire State Building,” Los Angeles Times, January 24, 2011, http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/24/health/la-he-matthew-gross-20110124.
38.Geraldine Baum and Anna Gorman, “Binghamton, N.Y., Mass Shooting Leaves Some Dead,” Los Angeles Times, April 4, 2009, http://articles.latimes.com/2009/apr/04/nation/na-binghamton-shooting-hostage4. (“This is truly an American tragedy. . . .”)
39.David Ovalle, “Immigration Authorities Released Man Who Went On to Kill 3 in North Miami,” Miami Herald, January 22, 2012.
40.Report to Congressional Requesters: Criminal Alien Statistics (Washington, DC: United States Government Accountability Office, March 2011), 24, http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11187.pdf. (Forty-three percent of those convicted of terrorism-related offenses were “aliens with or without legal immigration status,” and 65 percent of those were lawful permanent residents.)
41.Josh Gerstein, “Failed Somali Pirate Prosecution Fuels Terror Trial Fears,” Politico, February 10, 2014, http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/somali-pirate-prosecution-103328.html; and Daniel Greenfield, “Somali Pirate May Receive Asylum in US,” FrontPage Magazine, February 17, 2014, http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/somali-pirate-may-receive-asylum-in-us/.
42.Transcript of sentencing hearing of U.S. v. Beatrice Munyenyezi, USDC (NH), July 15, 2013.
43.Michael Wilson, “From Smiling Coffee Vendor to Terror Suspect,” New York Times, September 26, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/nyregion/26profile.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0.
44.Mosi Secret, “Terror Defendant Convicted in New York Subway Plot,” New York Times, May 1, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/nyregion/terror-defendant-convicted-in-plot-to-bomb-new-york-subways.html?_r=0.
45.Andrea Elliot, “A Call to Jihad, Answered in America,” New York Times, July 11, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/us/12somalis.html?pagewanted=all.
46.Spencer S. Hsu, “U.S. Says Men Ran Terror Network,” Washington Post, November 24, 2009, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/23/AR2009112303999.html. See also Brandt Williams, “Kamal Said Hassan, Mahamud Said Omar Sentenced in al-Shabab Terrorism Trial,” Minnesota Public Radio News, May 14, 2013, http://www.mprnews.org/story/2013/05/14/news/sentence-alshabab-terrorism-trial.
47.David Johnston and Eric Schmitt, “Ex-Military Officer in Pakistan Is Linked to 2 Chicago Terrorism Suspects,” New York Times, November 19, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/world/asia/19mumbai.html?pagewanted=all.
48.See Rotella, “The American behind India’s 9/11.”
49.Ginger Thompson, “A Terror Suspect with Feet in East and West,” New York Times, November 22, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/us/22terror.html?pagewanted=all.
50.Joseph Tanfani et al., “American Suspect in Mumbai Attack Was DEA Informant,” Philadelphia (PA) Inquirer, December 14, 2009, available online at http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2009/12/14/80622_american-suspect-in-mumbai-attack.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy.
51.Ginger Thompson and David Johnston, “U.S. Man Accused of Helping Plot Mumbai Attack,” New York Times, December 8, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/world/asia/08terror.html.
52.Thompson, “A Terror Suspect with Feet in East and West.”
53.Associated Press, “Plea in Terrorism Case,” New York Times, January 28, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/us/28brfs-PLEAINTERROR_BRF.html.
54.Dirk Johnson, “Suspect in Illinois Bomb Plot ‘Didn’t Like America Very Much,’” New York Times, September 28, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/us/28springfield.html.
55.Andrea Elliott, “The Jihadist Next Door,” New York Times, January 31, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/magazine/31Jihadist-t.html.
56.The Cycle, MSNBC, August 29, 2014.
CHAPTER SEVEN: IMMIGRANTS AND CRIME: WHY DO YOU ASK?
1.W. Gardner Selby, “Rick Perry Claim about 3,000 Homicides by Illegal Immigrants Not Supported by State Figures,” PolitiFact, July 17, 2014, http:www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2014/jul/23/rick-perry/rick-perry-claim-about-3000-homicides-illegal-immi/.
2.These may or may not include convicted criminals who are legal immigrants. As in all immigrant crime statistics, that is unclear. But Texas’s figures do only include immigrant criminals who have been fingerprinted by the Department of Homeland Security.
3.Gardner Selby, “Rick Perry Claim about 3,000 Homicides.”
4.National Crime Victimization Survey: Interviewing Manual for Field Representatives (Washington, DC: Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2003). See “Helping You Make Informed Decisions,” Item 71 (Offender’s Race): “If the respondent’s answer is ‘Spanish, Hispanic or Latino’ or any other ethnic origin, such as French or German, mark Box 1 ‘White’ and do NOT mark Box 3 ‘Other’ and do NOT enter the ethnic origin on the ‘Specify’ line.”
5.“Fact Finder: 2010,” U.S. Census Bureau, http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_DPAS_ASDP4&prodType=table.
6.Report to Congressional Requesters: Criminal Alien Statistics (Washington, DC: United States Government Accountability Office, March 2011), 7 (criminal aliens in federal prison: 55,000) and pp. 6 and 10 (illegal aliens as defined by the GAO in state and local facilities: 296,000), http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11187.pdf.
7.Ibid., 49–50.
8.The GAO’s estimate of three hundred thousand illegal immigrants in non-federal lock-ups is based on the number of incarcerated illegal aliens for whom the states requested reimbursement from the federal government. But states don’t always request reimbursement. A half dozen states have failed to file the forms for some years, including Illinois and Virginia. In 2009, Illinois was imprisoning more than ten thousand criminal aliens, and Virginia had nearly five thousand. Report to Congressional Requesters, 62. “For each individual name submitted, ICE reports to DOJ that it (1) verified the individual was illegally in the United States at the time of incarceration (called SCAAP illegal aliens), (2) lacked documentation to confirm an individual’s immigration status (called SCAAP unknown aliens), or (3) verified that the individual was an alien legally in the United States or a United States citizen and therefore not eligible for reimbursement under SCAAP.” Of the illegal immigrants for whom reimbursement was requested, the GAO counts only those whom both the state and the federal government agree are here illegally or whom the state believes are illegal and the federal government can’t prove otherwise.
9.Report to Congressional Requesters, 14, note 19.
10.“Briefing for Congressional Requesters: Information on Criminal Aliens Incarcerated in Federal and State Prisons and Local Jails,” slides from briefing prepared by the Government Accountability Office, March 29, 2005, p. 9, http://www.gao.gov/assets/100/93090.pdf.
11.Thus, the GAO stated: “The number
of criminal aliens in federal prisons in fiscal year 2010 was about 55,000, and the number of SCAAP criminal alien incarcerations in state prison systems and local jails was about 296,000 in fiscal year 2009 (the most recent data available), and the majority were from Mexico [emphasis added].” Report to Congressional Requesters, summary page and also p. 7 (“the number of criminal aliens incarcerated in federal prisons increased . . . to about 55,000 in fiscal year 2010”) and p. 10 (“the number of SCAAP criminal alien incarcerations in state prison systems and local jails increased . . . to about 296,000 in fiscal year 2009”). The report (see p. 9) goes on to define “criminal aliens”—the ones counted in federal prison—as both legal and illegal immigrants and to define “SCAAP criminal aliens”—the ones counted in state and local facilities—as only those aliens “whom ICE verified were illegally in the United States at the time of incarceration” and “[i]ndividuals whom states and local jurisdictions believe to be illegally in the United States, [but] ICE lacks documentation to confirm their immigration status.”
12.“American Housing Survey for the United States: 2011,” U.S. Census Bureau, September 2013, http://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/programs-surveys/ahs/data/2011/h150-11.pdf.
13.Office of Inspector General Department of Homeland Security, Detention and Removal of Illegal Aliens (Washington, DC: Department of Homeland Security, April 2006), http://www.oig.dhs.gov/assets/Mgmt/OIG_06-33_Apr06.pdf.
14.See Heather C. West and William J. Sabol, “Prisoners in 2007,” bulletin, Bureau of Justice Statistics, December 2008, http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p07.pdf (1,398,698 in state prisons); and William J. Sabol and Todd D. Minton, “Jail Inmates at Midyear 2007,” bulletin, Bureau of Justice Statistics, June 2008, http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/jim07.pdf (780,581 in local jails).
15.A California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation report listed 160,866 people in “institutions and camps,” “community correctional centers,” and state mental health hospitals. It’s not clear if “institutions” includes county jails. The county jails had about 30,000 sentenced offenders, for whom the state might have requested reimbursement under SCAAP, which would make it 190,866 inmates in all correctional facilities. Magnus Lofstrom and Brandon Martin, “California’s County Jails,” Public Policy Institute of California, chart, June 2013, http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_show.asp?i=1061.
16.Report to Congressional Requesters, 40.
17.“Texas Criminal Alien Arrest Data,” Texas Department of Public Safety, http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/administration/crime_records/pages/secureCommStatsTx.htm.
18.Kathleen Maguire, ed., Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, 1995 (Washington, DC: Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1996), 554, available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=xU8HPBfoGfQC&pg=PA554&lpg=PA554&dq=U.S.+Department+of+Justice,+Bureau+of+Justice+Statistics,+Prisoners+1925-+81,+Bulletin+NCJ-85861&source=bl&ots=ZHWkQwf1m&sig=K1Z7LL9T18mpymlt4n3xvl0IfkE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=idRqVKWAIoHrggSAgoOIDg&ved=0CDoQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=U.S.%20Department%20of%20Justice%2C%20Bureau%20of%20Justice%20Statistics%2C%20Prisoners%201925-%2081%2C%20Bulletin%20NCJ-85861&f=false; see also Table 6.28.2008 in the “Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Online,” University at Albany, http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/pdf/t6282008.pdf.
19.State of New York Department of Correctional Services, The Impact of Foreign-Born Inmates on the New York State Department of Correctional Services (Albany: State of New York Department of Correctional Services, July 2008), 1, http://www.doccs.ny.gov/Research/Reports/2008/Impact_of_Foreign-Born_Inmates_2008.pdf.
20.David D. Clark, “The Foreign-Born under Custody Population,” New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, 2010, http://www.doccs.ny.gov/Research/Reports/2011/ForeignBorn_IRP_Report_2010.pdf.
21.Sara Rimer, “Between 2 Worlds: Dominicans in New York—a Special Report,” New York Times, September 16, 1991, http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/16/nyregion/between-2-worlds-dominicans-new-york-special-report-between-2-worlds-dominicans.html.
22.Allen R. Myerson, “Thriving Where Others Won’t Go,” New York Times, January 7, 1992, http://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/07/business/thriving-where-others-won-t-go.html; and Daisann McLane, “Dominican Restaurants: A New Beat in Nueva York,” New York Times, May 27, 1992, http://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/27/garden/dominican-restaurants-a-new-beat-in-nueva-york.html.
23.Michael Massing, “Crack’s Destructive Sprint across America,” New York Times Magazine, October 1, 1989, http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/01/magazine/crack-s-destructive-sprint-across-america.html.
24.Clark, “The Foreign-Born under Custody Population.”
25.State of New York Department of Correctional Services, The Impact Of Foreign-Born Inmates, 1.
26.See, e.g., Richard A. Greene, “Mohammed Retakes Top Spot in English Baby Names,” Belief (blog), CNN, August 14, 2012, http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/14/mohammed-retakes-top-spot-in-english-baby-names/.
27.“Kriminalitet Blandt Indvandrere,” Danish State’s Bureau of Statistics, 2007, http://hodja.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/crime_stat_3.png, cited in Robert Spencer and Nicolai Sennels, “Report from the Therapy Room: Why Are Muslims More Violent and Criminal?,” Jihad Watch, April 27, 2012, http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/04/nicolai-sennels-report-from-the-therapy-room-why-are-muslims-more-violent-and-criminal.
28.Although thousands of online sites carried stories about Mr. Ali and his incest family, the local Orlando Sentinel was the only U.S. newspaper to report Ali’s case, in just a single article, according to Nexis. Amy Pavuk, “Shuhel Mahboob Ali: Brit Gets 10 Years for Seeking Child Sex for Incest Fantasy,” Orlando (FL) Sentinel, March 4, 2014, http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/keyword/online/recent/4.
29.Ibid.
30.“Top Ten Most Wanted,” Los Angeles Police Department, http://www.lapdonline.org/top_ten_most_wanted/most_wanted_view/24353.
31.“Profiled Fugitives,” U.S. Marshals Service, updated August 15, 2014, http://www.usmarshals.gov/profiled.htm. (“The following is a consolidated listing of the fugitives which are profiled on the U.S. Marshals Service website. The list includes 15 Most Wanted fugitives, Major Case fugitives and local fugitives wanted by U.S. Marshal District offices. It does not represent all fugitives wanted by the U.S. Marshals Service.”)
32.As the Star Tribune explained it, the listed criminals “aren’t necessarily the most dangerous offenders on the lam”; the list is “designed to raise awareness about a cross-section” of the county’s criminal offenders. Kevin Duchschere, “Most-Wanted List Features Cross-Section,” Minneapolis (MN) Star Tribune, September 12, 2012.
33.Shawn Linenberger, “Driver in Accident That Killed Amanda Bixby Pleads Not Guilty,” Tonganoxie Mirror, June 27, 2007.
34.“Suspected Illegal Immigrants Part of Huge Heroin Bust,” ncfire, July 2012, http://www.ncfire.info/july2012.pdf (citing a Gaston [NC] Gazette story).
35.Staff and Wire Reports, “Morristown Man Arrested in Newark Shootings,” Daily Record (Morristown, NJ), August 10, 2007.
36.David Leonardt, “Immigrants and Prison,” New York Times, May 30, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/business/30leonside.html?_r=0.
37.“Naturalization Fact Sheet,” U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, October 24, 2012, http://www.uscis.gov.
38.William Branigin, “Audit Faults INS Practices; Criminals May Still Be Getting Citizenship,” Washington Post, April 19, 1997.
39.Steven A. Camarota and Jessica Vaughan, “Immigration and Crime: Assessing a Conflicted Issue,” Center for Immigration Studies, November 2009, http://cis.org/ImmigrantCrime.
40.Report to Congressional Requesters, 6–7.
41.John Powers, Encyclopedia of North American Immigration (New York: Infobase Publishing, 2009), 213.
42.Randall Monger and James Yankay, “Annual Flow Report: U.S. Legal Permanent Residents, 2006,” Table 3, Department of Homeland Security, May 2014, http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/ois_lpr_fr_2013.pdf.
43.�
�The Nigerian Diaspora in the United States,” Migration Policy Institute, July 2014.
44.See, e.g., Stefanie Cohen, “Gangs of New York—the Ethnic Mobs That Are Giving the Italian Mafia a Run for Their Money,” New York Post, May 10, 2009.
45.National Crime Prevention Council, “Intellectual Property Theft: Get Real,” NCPC.org, http://www.ncpc.org/topics/intellectual-property-theft/gangs-and-organized-crime-1.
46.Associated Press, “Arkansas Man Sentenced in Fuel Fraud Case,” September 4, 2014.
47.Dawn Rhodes, “Doctor Pleads Guilty to Illegal Prescriptions, Medicare Fraud,” Chicago Tribune, September 5, 2014, http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/bolingbrook-plainfield/ct-doctor-guilty-drugs-met-0905-20140904-story.html.
48.“Owner of Home Health Care Company Sentenced to 75 Months in Prison for $6.5 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme,” press release, U.S. Department of Justice, September 8, 2014, http://www.justice.gov/usao/fls/PressReleases/2014/140908-01.html.
49.Melissa Pamer et al., “Millions in Cash Found in L.A. Fashion District Takedown of Alleged Drug-Money Laundering Operations,” KTLA, September 10, 2014, http://ktla.com/2014/09/10/feds-raid-l-a-s-fashion-district-in-drug-money-laundering-probe-2/.
50.“Canadian National Pleads Guilty to Illegally Importing Prescription Drugs into the United States,” States News Service, September 12, 2014.
51.“Detroit Doctor Pleads Guilty to Administering Unnecessary Chemotherapy to Defraud Medicare,” WFIN—1330 AM, September 16, 2014.
52.“Four Charged with Making Credit Cards with ‘Skimmed’ Info [stealing $2 million],” City News Service, September 18, 2014.
53.“Three Patient Recruiters Sentenced in $20 Million Miami Health Care Fraud Scheme,” press release, U.S. Department of Justice, September 18, 2014, http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/three-patient-recruiters-sentenced-20-million-miami-health-care-fraud-scheme.
54.“Final in Trio of Women Who Embezzled a Half a Million Dollars from Credit Union Is Sentenced,” Hawaii Reporter, September 19, 2014, http://www.hawaiireporter.com/final-woman-of-trio-who-embezzled-a-half-a-million-dollars-from-credit-union-is-sentenced.