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by Ann Coulter

  7.Hagan, “Bleeding ‘Times’ Blood.”

  8.Wright, “Slim’s Time.”

  9.See, e.g., ibid.

  10.Eduardo Porter, “Mexico’s Plutocracy Thrives on Robber-Baron Concessions,” New York Times, August 27, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/27/opinion/27mon4.html?pagewanted=print. (“In 1990, the government of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari sold his friend Mr. Slim the Mexican national phone company, Telmex, along with a de facto commitment to maintain its monopoly for years. Then it awarded Telmex the only nationwide cellphone license.”)

  11.Slim’s Telmex had an earnings margin of 47 percent in 2008, nearly twice the 28 percent average profit for major telecommunications operators in the United States, Canada, the UK, France, Spain, and Sweden. Slim’s mobile service, Telcel, had an average profit margin of 64 percent, compared with an average of 37.6 percent in all other OECD countries. “The Telecommunication Sector in Mexico,” in OECD Review of Telecommunication Policy and Regulation in Mexico (OECD Publishing, 2012), 37, http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/science-and-technology/oecd-review-of-telecommunication-policy-and-regulation-in-mexico/the-telecommunication-sector-in-mexico_9789264060111-3-en#page24.

  12.Porter, “Mexico’s Plutocracy.”

  13.Wright, “Slim’s Time.”

  14.Porter, “Mexico’s Plutocracy.”

  15.Wright, “Slim’s Time.”

  16.“The Telecommunication Sector in Mexico,” 18–20.

  17.Ibid. (Mexico cell phone penetration: 78 percent, compared with 93 percent in Colombia, 97 percent in Ecuador, and 98 percent in Communist Venezuela).

  18.Ibid., 33.

  19.Wright, “Slim’s Time.”

  20.“Planet Plutocrat,” Economist, March 15, 2014.

  21.“The Telecommunication Sector in Mexico,” 33.

  22.Joseph Galante, “CompUSA, Falling to Competition, to Shut Down after Holidays,” Bloomberg News, December 8, 2007, http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aomuLvfkNzTY&.

  23.Wright, “Slim’s Time.”

  24.Ibid.

  25.Wright, “Slim’s Time.” Such high interconnection rates are expressly outlawed in the United States in order to foster competition. See, e.g., MCI Telecommunications Corp v. Ohio Bell Telephone Company SBC 376 F.3d 539; 2004 FED App. 0232P (6th Cir.), July 20, 2004, available online at http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-6th-circuit/1296128.html#sthash.QK2eJZ4W.dpuf. (“In order to promote competition in the telecommunications market, the [Telecommunications Act of 1996] requires incumbent providers to allow new market entrants, such as MCI in this case, to utilize the incumbent provider’s network and buy the incumbent provider’s telecommunication services for a fair price. See 47 U.S.C. §§ 251(a)(1) & (c). These arrangements were necessary to minimize the barriers to market entry erected during the period in which the incumbent provider functioned as a monopoly.”)

  26.“The Telecommunication Sector in Mexico,” 33.

  27.Ibid., 17–18.

  28.According to the Pew Research Center, in 2012 there were 33.7 million Hispanics of Mexican origin in the United States. Of those, “half (51%) are in the U.S. illegally while about a third are legal permanent residents (32%) and 16% are naturalized U.S. citizens.” 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/. But Pew uses the census’s undercount of illegal aliens, as we saw in chapter 2. According to Pew, “More than half (55%) of the 11.1 million immigrants who are in the country illegally are from Mexico.” So making that 55 percent of 30 million illegal aliens, rather than 55 percent of 11.1 million, adds another 10 million Mexican illegal immigrants to Pew’s estimate, bringing the total number of Mexicans in the United States to 43.7 million.

  29.Congressional Budget Office, “Migrants’ Remittances and Related Economic Flows,” February 2011, p. 2, http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/ftpdocs/120xx/doc12053/02-24-remittances_chartbook.pdf. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), it’s $20 billion a year.

  30.Ibid., 17 (relying on data from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank).

  31.Steven Camarota, “Welfare Use by Immigrant Households with Children,” Center for Immigration Studies, April 2011, http://cis.org/immigrant-welfare-use-2011 (analyzing the census’s 2009 and 2010 Current Population Survey questions about welfare use in immigrant-headed families, legal and illegal, with at least one child under the age of eighteen).

  32.Congressional Budget Office, “Migrants’ Remittances,” 10.

  33.In surveys, 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico say the money they send home is used exclusively for consumption; 96 percent say it is used for both consumption and savings. Ibid.

  34.Patricia Laya, “Mexico’s Richest Man Urges Young U.S. Immigrants into Workforce,” Bloomberg News, August 13, 2014, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-13/mexico-s-richest-man-urges-young-u-s-immigrants-into-workforce.html.

  35.Editorial Board, “Migrants and the Middlemen,” New York Times, July 9, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/10/opinion/migrants-and-themiddlemen.html?_r=0.

  36.Editorial Board, “Migrants and the Middlemen.”

  37.Editorial Board, “Mr. Obama, Go Big.”

  38.Charles Lane, “A National Immigration Scandal,” Washington Post, July 9, 2014, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-lane-a-national-immigration-scandal/2014/07/09/26dd4384-077e-11e4-8a6a-19355 c7e870a_story.html.

  39.“Flaws in Immigration Laws,” editorial, New York Times, September 29, 1997, http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/29/opinion/flaws-in-immigration-laws.html.

  40.“Salvaging the I.N.S.,” editorial, New York Times, August 10, 1997, http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/10/opinion/salvaging-the-ins.html. The Times also praised Clinton’s INS commissioner, saying the “border is tighter, and the I.N.S. is deporting record numbers of criminal aliens.” Sam Dillon, “U.S. Tests Border Plan in Event of Mexico Crisis,” New York Times, December 8, 1995, http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/08/us/us-tests-border-plan-in-event-of-mexico-crisis.html.

  41.Hal Salzman, Daniel Kuehn, and B. Lindsay Lowell, “Guestworkers in the High-Skill U.S. Labor Market,” Economic Policy Institute, April 24, 2013, http://www.epi.org/publication/bp359-guestworkers-high-skill-labor-market-analysis/.

  42.Deborah Sontag, “Increasingly, 2-Career Family Means Illegal Immigrant Help,” New York Times, January 24, 1993, http://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/24/nyregion/increasingly-2-career-family-means-illegal-immigrant-help.html.

  43.Ibid.

  44.Stuart Taylor, “Inside the Whirlwind: How Zoë Baird Was Monstrously Caricatured for the Smallest of Sins, Pounded by the Press and Popular Righteousness, and Crucified by Prejudice and Hypocrisy,” American Lawyer, March 1993.

  45.Sontag, “Increasingly, 2-Career Family.”

  46.Taylor, “Inside the Whirlwind.”

  47.Richard Berke, “Judge Withdraws from Clinton List for Justice Post,” New York Times, February 6, 1993, http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/06/us/judge-withdraws-from-clinton-list-for-justice-post.html.

  48.“The News & Record’s Eighth Annual Roundup of the Idiotic, the Ironic and the Just Plain Weird,” News & Record (Greensboro, NC), December 31, 2001.

  49.“Poverty Overview: Context,” World Bank, April 7, 2014, http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/overview.

  SPOT THE IMMIGRANT! CASE NO. 4: INDIAN SEX SLAVES IN BERKELEY

  1.See Anita Chabria, “His Own Private Berkeley,” Los Angeles Times, November 25, 2001, http://articles.latimes.com/2001/nov/25/magazine/tm-7947; Nirshan Perera, “Eyewitness in Reddy Case Foiled ‘Family Affair,’” India Abroad (NY), August 24, 2001; and Diana Russell and Marcia Poole, “The Lakireddy Bali Reddy Case,” Women against Sexual Slavery, 2003, http://www.wassusa.com.

  2.Chabria, “His Own Pr
ivate Berkeley”; Perera, “Eyewitness in Reddy Case.”

  3.See Chabria, “His Own Private Berkeley”; Lisa Fernandez, “Judge Urged to Be Tough: Petitioners Ask Maximum Penalty for Landlord in Sex Slave Case,” San Jose (CA) Mercury News, June 8, 2001; Fernandez, “8-Year Prison Term Set: Berkeley Entrepreneur Sentenced for Importing Minors for Sex,” San Jose (CA) Mercury News, June 20, 2001; Perera, “Eyewitness in Reddy Case”; and Russell and Poole, “The Lakireddy Bali Reddy Case.”

  4.Fernandez, “8-Year Prison Term.”

  5.Kayitha Sreeharsha, “The Bystander Problem,” India Currents, May 13, 2013, https://www.indiacurrents.com/articles/2013/05/13/bystander-problem.

  6.Ibid.

  7.Eric Konigsberg, “Couple’s Downfall Is Culminating in Sentencing in Long Island Slavery Case,” New York Times, June 23, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/nyregion/23slave.html.

  8.The Berkeley High Jacket’s story ran on December 10, 1999. See, e.g., Alyse Nelson, Vital Voices: The Power of Women Leading Change around the World (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2012), 216.

  9.Leslie Wayne, “Workers, and Bosses, in a Visa Maze,” New York Times, April 29, 2001, http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/29/business/workers-and-bosses-in-a-visa-maze.html (3,464 words). “Fraud in obtaining visas has also been found, including one tragic case in Berkeley, Calif., in which three Indian girls were brought in on H-1B visas for sexual purposes. The case came to light in November 1999 after one of the three, a 17-year-old pregnant girl, died of carbon monoxide poisoning in the rented apartment the girls shared. Last month, the landlord, Lakireddy Reddy, 63, a native of India worth more than $50 million, pleaded guilty in federal court in Oakland, as did two of his relatives. His two sons have also been charged in the case, in which the group is accused of fraudulently bringing Indian nationals to the United States for cheap labor and sex.”

  10.Russell and Poole, “The Lakireddy Bali Reddy Case.”

  11.See Chabria, “His Own Private Berkeley”; Fernandez, “Judge Urged to Be Tough”; and Fernandez, “8-Year Prison Term Set.”

  12.Josh Richman, “Judge Won’t Alter Sentence of a Man Who Smuggled Girls,” Oakland (CA) Tribune, May 23, 2006.

  13.See Chabria, “His Own Private Berkeley.”

  CHAPTER FOURTEEN: EVERY SINGLE IMMIGRATION CATEGORY IS A FRAUD

  1.Scott Russell, “Back to the Future: New Wave of Refugees Lacks Family Connections for Support,” Minneapolis (MN) Star Tribune, August 9, 2008, http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/281197521.html; and 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.

  2.Jonathan J. Cooper, “Oregon Governor’s Fiancee Admits to Sham Marriage,” Associated Press on Yahoo! News, October 10, 2014, http://news.yahoo.com/oregon-governors-fiancee-admits-sham-marriage-233257798—politics.html.

  3.Jenifer Warren, “Growers Hail Parts on Search Warrants, Amnesty,” Los Angeles Times, December 7, 1986, http://articles.latimes.com/1986-12-07/local/me-1296_1_search-warrant; and Robert Pear, “Congress; Whither the Immigration Bill?,” New York Times, July 15, 1986, http://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/15/us/congress-whither-the-immigration-bill.html (“The farmers, who have for years employed illegal aliens, say they need a ready supply of labor, or else their crops would rot in the fields”).

  4.David North, “Lessons Learned from the Legalization Programs of the 1980s,” ILW.com, http://www.ilw.com/articles/2005,0302-north.shtm.

  5.Ibid.

  6.Richard Behar, “The Secret Life of Mahmud the Red,” Time, June 24, 2001, http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,162453,00.html.

  7.Ibid. See also Julie Farnam, U.S. Immigration Laws under the Threat of Terrorism (New York: Algora Publishing, 2005), 13–17.

  8.Behar, “The Secret Life of Mahmud.” See also Farnam, U.S. Immigration Laws, 13–17.

  9.Behar, “The Secret Life of Mahmud.”

  10.Ibid.

  11.Ibid.

  12.Ibid.

  13.Mary B. Tabor, “Bombing Suspect’s Wife Holds On as Her Husband Awaits Trial,” New York Times, May 4, 1993, http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/04/nyregion/bombing-suspect-s-wife-holds-on-as-her-husband-awaits-trial.html.

  14.See, e.g., Ron Scherer, “Bombing Probe Shines Spotlight on Amnesty Law,” Christian Science Monitor, March 16, 1993, http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/r14/1993/0316/16012.html.

  15.See, e.g., ibid.

  16.See United States v. Ramzi Yousef, 327 F.3d 56 (2003), 97, available at http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/327/56/625679/.

  17.Ibid., 105.

  18.Weston Kosova, “The INS Mess,” New Republic, April 13, 1992, http://www.newrepublic.com/article/politics/the-ins-mess.

  19.Vivek Wadhwa, “Our Real Problem Is the Brain Drain,” response to “Do We Need Foreign Technology Workers?” on Room for Debate (blog), New York Times blogs, April 8, 2009, http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/do-we-need-foreign-technology-workers/?_r=0#vivek.

  20.Wadhwa, “Chinese and Indian Entrepreneurs Are Eating America’s Lunch,” Foreign Policy, December 28, 2010, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/12/28/chinese_and_indian_entrepreneurs_are_eating_americas_lunch.

  21.In 2000, 32 percent of skilled workers in Silicon Valley were foreign born, mostly from Asia. Piero Scaruffi, “The Survivors (1999–2002),” in A History of Silicon Valley (2010), http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/sil15.html.

  22.Ron Banerjee, “Worker Visas That Work,” Financial Post, April 17, 2013, http://business.financialpost.com/2013/04/16/worker-visas-that-work/.

  23.Harichandan Arakali, “India’s Startup Scene: Will VC Dollars Create the Next Amazon?,” International Business Times, October 7, 2014, http://www.ibtimes.com/indias-startup-scene-will-vc-dollars-create-next-amazon-1696876.

  24.Vinod Dham, “What the United States Can Gain from Working Closer with India,” Innovations (blog) Washington Post blogs, September 29, 2014. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2014/09/29/what-the-united-states-can-gain-from-working-closer-with-india/.

  25.Neesha Bapat, “How Indians Defied Gravity and Achieved Success in Silicon Valley,” Forbes, October 15, 2012, http://www.forbes.com/sites/singularity/2012/10/15/how-indians-defied-gravity-and-achieved-success-in-silicon-valley/.

  26.Renew Our Economy (verified account @renewoureconomy) tweeted: “Jean-Luc Vaillant and @kgimvalley, 2 of the 5 founders of @LinkedIn, were born and raised in Europe #smwnyc #smw14 #immigration,” https://twitter.com/renewoureconomy/status/436510787923116032.

  27.Benjamin Franklin, Observations concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc. (Boston: S. Kneeland, 1755), available online at at https://archive.org/stream/increasemankind00franrich/increasemankind00franrich_djvu.tx.

  28.David S. Broder, “For Gates, a Visa Charge,” Washington Post, March 19, 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/17/AR2006031701798.html.

  29.“Bill Gates Lies to Congress about Microsoft’s H-1B Wages,” Programmers Guild, http://programmersguild.org/docs/bill_gates_lies_about_h1b_wages.html.

  30.Ibid., citing Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

  31.Craig Barrett, “A Talent Contest We’re Losing,” Washington Post, December 23, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/21/AR2007122101919.html.

  32.Ron Hira and Jerry Luftman, “Is There a Tech Talent Shortage?,” Information Week, January 7, 2008.

  33.Marco Werman, “H-1B Skilled-Worker Visas under Fire,” The World, Public Radio International, March 6, 2013, http://www.pri.org/stories/2013-03-06/h-1b-skilled-worker-visas-under-fire.

  34.James Pope Gray, “Contract, Race, and Freedom of Labor in the Constitutional Law of ‘Involuntary Servitude,’” Yale Law Journal 119 (2010).

  35.Ibid.

  36.Ibid.

  CHAPTER FIFTEEN: SHUT IT DOWN

  1.U.S. Government Accountability Office, Report to Con
gressional Requesters: Criminal Alien Statistics (Washington, DC: Government Accountability Office, March 2011), 7 and 10, http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11187.pdf.

  2.See, e.g., William Branigin, “INS Accused of Giving In to Politics; White House Pressure Tied to Citizen Push,” Washington Post, March 4, 1997.

  3.Jessica Vaughan, “ICE Document Details 36,000 Criminal Alien Releases in 2013,” Center for Immigration Studies, May 2014, http://cis.org/ICE-Document-Details-36000-Criminal-Aliens-Release-in-2013.

  4.Adriana M. Chávez, “Border Patrol Agents Arrest Two Convicted Sex Offenders,” El Paso (TX) Times, January 20, 2011, http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_17148642?source=most_viewed.

  5.Of course, inasmuch as it is impossible to get any details about Antonio Batista from a media obsessed with the behavior of drunken athletes on college campuses, perhaps Batista’s family has been here for generations. If so, it doesn’t say much for citizenship altering the sexual habits of immigrants.

  6.Sam Dolnick, “Asylum Ploys Play Off News to Open Door,” New York Times, July 12, 2011, available online under the headline “Immigrants May Be Fed False Stories to Bolster Asylum Pleas,” at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/nyregion/immigrants-may-be-fed-false-stories-to-bolster-asylum-pleas.html.

  7.Ibid.

  8.Simon Marks, “Somaly Mam: The Holy Saint (and Sinner) of Sex Trafficking,” Newsweek, May 21, 2014, http://www.newsweek.com/2014/05/30/somaly-mam-holy-saint-and-sinner-sex-trafficking-251642.html.

  9.Asylum Abuse: Is It Overwhelming Our Borders? Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, 113th Cong. 2 (2013) (statement of Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte), http://judiciary.house.gov/_cache/files/121ef25f-d824-448e-8259-cce4edc03856/113-56-85905.pdf. (“Currently, data provided by DHS shows that USCIS makes positive credible fear findings in 92% of all cases decided on the merits. Not surprisingly, credible fear claims have increased 586% from 2007 to 2013 as word has gotten out as to the virtual rubberstamping of applications.”)

  10.See, e.g., Brad Hamilton, “Dominique Strauss-Kahn ‘Refused to Pay’ Hooker Maid for Sex,” New York Post, July 3, 2011, http://nypost.com/2011/07/03/dominique-strauss-kahn-refused-to-pay-hooker-maid-for-sex/.