by Ann Coulter
55.“Four Defendants in Custody for Allegedly Making Credit Cards with ‘Skimmed’ Information in Schemes That Cost Banks at Least $2 Million,” States News Service, September 18, 2014.
56.Greg Yee, “Long Beach Man Sentenced to Federal Prison in Medicare Fraud Case [and ordered to pay nearly $1.5 million in restitution],” Press-Telegram (Long Beach, CA), September 22, 2014. http://www.presstelegram.com/general-news/20140922/long-beach-man-sentenced-to-federal-prison-in-medicare-fraud-case.
57.W. Zachary Malinowski, “Sentences Given for [$3.6-million] Food Stamp Fraud,” Providence (RI) Journal, September 22, 2014.
58.“O.C. Resident Sentenced to Federal Prison for Selling Stolen Hospital Supplies over Internet in Scheme That Brought Him $1.8 Million,” States News Service, September 22, 2014.
59.“Owner of Home Health Agency Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Structuring $1.8 Million in Cash Withdrawals to Conceal a $4.5 Million Healthcare Fraud Scheme,” press release, U.S. Justice Department, September 25, 2014, http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/owner-home-health-agency-sentenced-five-years-prison-structuring-18-million-cash-withdrawals.
60.Gus Burns, “Feds Say They’ve Uncovered Rampant Food-Stamp Fraud in Hamtramck,” M Live—Michigan, September 23, 2014, http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2014/09/feds_say_theyve_uncovered_ramp.html.
61.“Brooklyn Man Charged with Facilitating $6 Million Food Stamp Fraud in New York,” States News Service, September 25, 2014.
62.Emon Reiser, “Miami Man Arrested, Charged in $24M Medicare Scheme,” South Florida Business Journal, September 26, 2014, http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2014/09/26/miami-man-arrested-charged-in-24m-medicare-scheme.html.
63.Adam Sacasa, “Couple Accused of Faking Crash; Husband, Wife Were Paid $2,000 Each, Report Says,” Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL) September 26, 2014.
64.“Michigan Physician Pleads Guilty for Role in Medicare Fraud Scheme,” press release, U.S. Department of Justice, September 26, 2014, http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/michigan-physician-pleads-guilty-role-medicare-fraud-scheme-0.
65.“Administrator Sentenced to 68 Months in Prison for Role in $6 Million Miami Home Health Care Fraud Scheme,” press release, U.S. Department of Justice, September 29, 2014, http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/administrator-sentenced-68-months-prison-role-6-million-miami-home-health-care-fraud-scheme.
66.“Miami Home Health Care Agency Owner Indicted in $8 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme,” press release, U.S. Department of Justice, September 30, 2014, http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/miami-home-health-care-agency-owner-indicted-8-million-medicare-fraud-scheme.
67.“Detroit-Area Doctor and Three Others Indicted for Their Alleged Roles in $7 Million Health Care Fraud,” press release, U.S. Justice Department, September 30, 2014, http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/detroit-area-doctor-and-three-others-indicted-their-alleged-roles-7-million-health-care-fraud.
68.“Six Defendants Charged in $6 Million Miami Home Health Care Fraud Scheme,” press release, U.S. Department of Justice, September 30, 2014, available online at the FBI website, http://www.fbi.gov/miami/press-releases/2014/six-defendants-charged-in-6-million-miami-home-health-care-fraud-scheme.
CHAPTER EIGHT: WHY CAN’T WE HAVE ISRAEL’S POLICY ON IMMIGRATION?
1.See, e.g., David Sim, “Photos of Drug Smuggling Tunnels between Mexico and the US,” International Business Times, May 23, 2014, http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/photos-drug-smuggling-tunnels-between-mexico-us-1449770.
2.Robert Mackey, “African Migrants Attacked in Tel Aviv,” The Lede (blog), New York Times blogs, May 24, 2012, http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/24/african-migrants-attacked-in-tel-aviv/.
3.Isabel Kershner, “Crackdown on Migrants Tugs at Soul of Israelis,” New York Times, June 18, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/world/middleeast/crackdown-on-african-immigrants-tugs-at-israels-soul.
4.Kershner, “Israel: Migrants Protest New Law,” New York Times, December 18, 2013, available online under the headline “African Refugees Protest Detainment in Israel,” at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/18/world/middleeast/african-refugees-protest-detainment-in-israel.html.
5.Report to Congressional Requesters: Criminal Alien Statistics (Washington, DC: United States Government Accountability Office, March 2011), 15, http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11187.pdf.
6.Ibid., 9.
7.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.
8.Reuters, “Study Shows Minorities, Hispanics Most Underrepresented in Hollywood,” Las Vegas (NV) Review Journal, August 4, 2014, http://www.reviewjournal.com/entertainment/movies/study-shows-minorities-hispanics-most-underrepresented-hollywood; Anna Bahr, “Latinos Onscreen, Conspicuously Few,” New York Times, June 18, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/19/upshot/latinos-onscreen-conspicuously-absent.html; and Mireya Navarro, “Trying to Get beyond the Role of the Maid; Hispanic Actors Are Seen as Underrepresented, with the Exception of One Part,” New York Times, May 16, 2002, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/16/movies/trying-get-beyond-role-maid-hispanic-actors-are-seen-underrepresented-with.html.
9.Josh Keller, “At Top Colleges, an Admissions Gap for Minorities,” New York Times, May 7, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/05/07/education/college-admissions-gap.html?_r=0; John Benson, “Latino and Low-Income Students Underrepresented at Top Colleges,” Huffington Post, August 7, 2013, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/07/latino-college-students_n_3720705.html; “Minority Enrollment: Black and Hispanic Students Underrepresented at Highly Selective Colleges, Stanford Study Finds,” Huffington Post, July 17, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/17/stanford-study-finds-blac_n_1681136.html; and Jens Manuel Krogstad and Richard Fry, “More Hispanics, Blacks Enrolling in College, but Lag in Bachelor’s degrees,” Pew Research Center, April 24, 2014, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/04/24/more-hispanics-blacks-enrolling-in-college-but-lag-in-bachelors-degrees/.
10.Rosa Ramirez, “Hispanics Still Underrepresented in Federal Workforce, OPM Study Finds,” National Journal, July 31, 2012, http://www.nationaljournal.com/thenextamerica/workforce/hispanics-still-underrepresented-in-federal-workforce-opm-study-finds-20120731; Sean Daly, “New Study Finds ‘Brownout’ on Sunday Talk Shows: Hispanics Underrepresented, Black People and Women Too,” Tampa Bay (FL) Times, February 10, 2012, http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/media/content/new-study-finds-brownout-sunday-talk-shows-hispanics-underrepresented-black-people-and-women; and Darryl Fears, “Hispanics Underrepresented in the Federal Workforce,” Washington Post, January 3, 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/02/AR2006010201716.html.
11.S. J. Main, “Latinos in Mainstream Media Are a Disappearing Act: The Latino Media Gap Crisis,” Huffington Post, July 21, 2014, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sj-main/the-latino-media-gap-crisis_b_5604714.html; Mark Garrison, “Report Finds Latinos Are Underrepresented in the Media,” Market.org, June 26, 2014, http://www.marketplace.org/topics/economy/report-finds-latinos-are-underrepresented-media; and Ruben Navarrette Jr., “Latinos Underrepresented in National Media,” My San Antonio, September 14, 2012, http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/commentary/article/Latinos-underrepresented-in-national-media-3866388.php.
12.Corrie MacLaggan, “Lack of Hispanics in Veterinary Programs,” New York Times, August 14, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/15/us/lack-of-hispanics-in-veterinary-programs.html.
13.Jessica Miller, “Utah’s Police Forces Lack Latino Officers,” Salt Lake (UT) Tribune, September 22, 2014, http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/58398191-78/police-community-officers-department.html.csp.
14.David Plouffe and Steve Schmidt, “Pass the Immigration Bill,” Politico, July 15, 2013, http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/plouffe-immigration-op-ed-94162.html.
15.Mady Wechsler Segal and David R. Segal, “Latinos Claim Larger Share of U.S. Military Personnel,” Population Reference Bure
au, October 2007, http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2007/HispanicsUSMilitary.aspx.
16.According to the U.S. census, there were 3.7 times as many whites as Hispanics in 2014, but the census undercounts illegal aliens, a majority of whom are Hispanic, so we’ll make it about three times as many. See “U.S. Census State and County QuickFacts: USA, 2014,” http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html.
17.E. Ann Carson and Daniela Golinelli, “Prisoners in 2012—Advance Counts,” bulletin, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Table 10, July 2013, http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p12ac.pdf.
18.Callie Marie Rennison, “Reporting to the Police by Hispanic Victims of Violence,” Violence and Victims 22, no. 6 (2007). Hispanics are especially less likely than whites to report child rape, and the least likely to report childhood sex abuse of any ethnic group, according to a study by the National Institute of Justice. Carlos A. Cuevas and Chiara Sabina, Final Report: Sexual Assault among Latinas (SALAS) Study (Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice, April 2010), https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/230445.pdf. The same study found that Hispanics are more likely to report a simple assault than whites and that the rate of sex crime reporting was unrelated to immigration status.
19.Michael E. Roettger and Demetrius S. Semien, “Employing Du Bois and Myrdal to Analyze the U.S. Criminal Justice System,” Race, Gender, and Class 20, no. 1 (2013). (“Cumulatively, it is estimated that 33% of all black men, 17% of all Hispanic men, and 5% of all white men will spend time in state or federal prison [Bonczar, 2003].”) See also Joy M. Thomas, “Mass Incarceration of Minority Males: A Critical Look at Its Historical Roots and How Educational Policies Encourage Its Existence,” Race, Gender, and Class 20, no. 1 (2013).
20.Paul Guerino, Paige M. Harrison, and William J. Sabol, “Prisoners in 2010,” bulletin, Table 14, Bureau of Justice Statistics, December 2011, revised February 9, 2012, http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p10.pdf.
21.Nick Miroff, “Tracing the U.S. Heroin Surge Back South of the Border as Mexican Cannabis Output Falls,” Washington Post, April 6, 2014, http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/tracing-the-us-heroin-surge-back-south-of-the-border-as-mexican-cannabis-output-falls/2014/04/06/58dfc590-2123-4cc6-b664-1e5948960576_story.html.
22.See, e.g., Arian Campo-Flores and Zusha Elinson, “Heroin Use, and Deaths, Rise,” Wall Street Journal, February 3, 2014, http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304851104579361250012275942; and Katharine Q. Seelye, “A Mother Lifts Her Son, Slowly, from Heroin’s Abyss,” New York Times, August 10, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/11/us/a-mother-lifts-her-son-slowly-from-heroins-abyss.html.
23.“DrugFacts: Heroin,” National Institute on Drug Abuse, April 2013, http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/heroin.
24.Patrick Radden Keefe, “Cocaine Incorporated,” New York Times Magazine, June 15, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/magazine/how-a-mexican-drug-cartel-makes-its-billions.html.
25.Dolia Estevez, “Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Death Casts Light on Mexico’s Leading Role in U.S. Heroin Epidemic,” Forbes, February 6, 2014, http://www.forbes.com/sites/doliaestevez/2014/02/06/did-phillip-seymour-hoffman-overdose-on-mexican-drug-lord-el-chapo-guzmans-heroin/.
26.Associated Press, “Snapshot of Heroin Use, Deaths in 26 States,” April 5, 2014, available online under the headline “Snapshot of Heroin Use, Deaths in 26 States, including Louisiana,” at http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/04/snapshot_of_heroin_use_deaths.html.
27.Ibid.
28.Michigan Bureau of Disease Control, Prevention, & Epidemiology, Unintentional Drug Poisoning Deaths in Michigan, 2012, available at http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mdch/1_3-13-13_MortalityData9910_431271_7.pdf.
29.Associated Press, “Snapshot of Heroin Use.”
30.Miroff, “Tracing the U.S. Heroin Surge Back South.”
31.“Number of Deaths from Drug-Induced Causes, by Sex and Race, 1979–2010,” Table 38 of the National Drug Control Strategy Data Supplement, 2013 (Washington, DC: Executive Office of the President of the United States, 2013), http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/ondcp/policy-and-research/2013_data_supplement_final2.pdf (putting the number of drug deaths in 2010 at 40,393). See generally Harold Pollack, “100 Americans Die of Drug Overdoses Each Day. How Do We Stop That?,” Washington Post, February 7, 2012, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/02/07/100-americans-die-of-drug-overdoses-each-day-how-do-we-stop-that/.
32.Seelye, “A Mother Lifts Her Son, Slowly.”
33.Keefe, “Cocaine Incorporated.”
34.Some websites, most of them in Spanish, claim that her mother, Blanca Estela Aispuro Aispuro, was an “American.” If so, she was an anchor baby herself. Both mother and daughter have lived their entire lives in Mexico—except for quick trips to America to have anchor babies; see Michael Daly, “Drug Cartel Beauty Queens Face an Ugly End,” Daily Beast, February 26, 2014, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/26/drug-cartel-beauty-queens.html; and Orlando Oliveros, “Emma Coronel, la última Mujer del Chapo Guzmán,” February 25, 2014, http://www.unioncancun.mx/articulo/2014/02/25/nacion/emma-coronel-la-ultima-mujer-del-chapo-guzman.
35.Emma’s uncle is Ignacio (Nacho) Coronel—the “Steve Jobs” of Mexico, according to Anabel Hernández. “He saw the future,” she exuded. It was methamphetamine. Emma’s other family members working for the Sinaloa cartel included Ernesto Coronel Peña, Juan Jaime Coronel, Juan Ernesto Coronel Herrera, and Gael Carbel Aldana—all arrested in 2010, according to Daily Entertainment News, which has some of the most penetrating English-language coverage of Mexican drug cartels. “Emma Coronel Guzman—Joaquin El Chapo Guzman’s Wife,” Daily Entertainment News, February 24, 2014, http://dailyentertainmentnews.com/breaking-news/emma-coronel-guzman-joaquin-el-chapo-guzmans-wife/.
36.“Beauty Queen Wife of Mexico’s Most Wanted Drug Lord Crosses Border to Give Birth to Twins in California,” Daily Mail (UK), September 28, 2011, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2042397/Sinaloa-drug-lord-Joaquin-Guzmans-wife-Emma-Coronel-gives-birth-twins-California.html.
37.Philip V. Allingham, “England and China: The Opium Wars, 1839–60,” Victorian Web, http://www.victorianweb.org/history/empire/opiumwars/opiumwars1.html.
38.Peter Foster, “China Builds Higher Fences over Fears of Instability in North Korea,” Telegraph (London), March 30, 2011, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/8415490/China-builds-higher-fences-over-fears-of-instability-in-North-Korea.html.
39.Shmuel Rosner, “Rape, Lies and Videotapes,” Latitude (blog), New York Times blogs, January 2, 2013, http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/a-rape-in-israel-becomes-tinder-for-ugly-anti-immigration-politics/.
40.Reece Jones, “Something There Is That Doesn’t Love a Wall,” New York Times, August 28, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/opinion/Border-Fences-in-United-States-Israel-and-India.html.
41.“Rep. Peter T. King Holds a Markup on Homeland Security Authorization,” Political Transcript Wire, October 13, 2011.
42.Peggy Fikac, “Perry’s Border Fence Quip Rings a Bell,” Houston (TX) Chronicle, October 3, 2011.
43.Ibid.
44.Ibid.
45.Ed Vulliamy, “How Arrest of the Last Don Heralds Ruthless New Era for Mexico,” Guardian (UK), October 5, 2014, http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/05/mexico-war-on-drugs-hidden-story-joaquin-guzman-war-us.
46.Patrick Radden Keefe, “The Blogger Who Tracks Syrian Rockets from His Sofa,” Telegraph (London), March 2014, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10730163/The-blogger-who-tracks-Syrian-rockets-from-his-sofa.html; and Vulliamy, “How Arrest of the Last Don Heralds Ruthless New Era.”
47.Emily Friedman, “Mexican Investigator Searching for Killers of American David Hartley Is Decapitated,” ABC News, October 12, 2010, http://abcnews.go.com/US/mexican-drug-gang-decapitates-investigator-homicide-american-david/story?id=11863267.
48.“Beheading Videos on Facebook: Cruelty and the Crowd,” Guard
ian (UK), October 23, 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/22/beheading-videos-facebook. See also Karis Hustad, “Facebook Updates Explicit Content Policy,” Christian Science Monitor, October 23, 2013, http://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2013/1023/Facebook-updates-explicit-content-policy.
49.Nexis search of “All Transcripts” for: “beheading” within the same sentence as “ISIS” or “ISIL” between July 1, 2014, and March 1, 2015: 1,231 documents. Same search, but for “beheading” within the same sentence as “Mexic!”: 66 documents, then the same search for the previous five years.
50.See, e.g., Moises Castillo for the Associated Press, “Mexican Cartel Beheaded 29—Including Women and Children—in Saturday Night Massacre,” CNS News, May 16, 2011, http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/mexican-cartel-beheaded-29-including-women-and-children-saturday-night-massacre; Ashley Fantz, “The Mexico Drug War: Bodies for Billions,” CNN, January 20, 2012, http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/15/world/mexico-drug-war-essay/.
51.See Vulliamy, “How Arrest of the Last Don Heralds Ruthless New Era.”
52.Janine DiGiovanni, “When It Comes to Beheadings, ISIS Has Nothing over Saudi Arabia,” Newsweek, October 14, 2014, http://www.newsweek.com/2014/10/24/when-it-comes-beheadings-isis-has-nothing-over-saudi-arabia-277385.html.
53.Nick Miroff and William Booth, “Mexico’s Drug War Is at a Stalemate as Calderon’s Presidency Ends,” Washington Post, November 27, 2012, http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/calderon-finishes-his-six-year-drug-war-at-stalemate/2012/11/26/82c90a94-31eb-11e2-92f0-496af208bf23_story_1.html.
54.“Hitman, 15, on Trial for Beheading Victims,” New Zealand Herald, July 21, 2011, http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10739809; “Teenage Drug Cartel Hit Man, Who Beheaded Four Victims, on His Way Home to US After Serving 3 Years in Jail,” Daily Mail (UK), November 26, 2013, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2514101/Edgar-Jimenez-Lugo-BEHEADED-4-victims-freed-heading-US.html. Lugo is also featured in a YouTube video—seen beating a man with a two-by-four as the man hangs from a rope.