Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole (23 page)

Israel responded to the influx of illegal aliens by arresting them and putting them on buses out of the country. This is in contrast to our policy, which is to put them on buses
into
our country and enroll them in U.S.
schools. The
Times
quoted an Israeli bystander, observing the arrests, saying: “It must be done or tomorrow we will have no country and we will have to look for another one.”
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For refugees who could not be deported under international law, Israel built detention facilities on the border, where they were to be held until conditions in their countries improved. Netanyahu unsentimentally responded to protests over the detentions, saying, “The infiltrators who were transferred to the special detainment facility can either stay there or go back to their home countries.”
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I admire Israel’s policy and wish we could adopt it. Show me in a straight line why we can’t do what they do. If Israel’s ethnicity changes, the idea of Israel changes. If America’s ethnicity changes, the idea of our country changes, too.

YOU KNOW WHERE HISPANICS ARE OVERREPRESENTED? U.S. PRISONS

When did Americans get together and decide we want 30 percent of all immigrants to be from a single country and that country should be Mexico? If we’re going to take almost all our immigrants from a single country, why not Denmark? There appears to have been only one Danish prisoner in New York State in decades—and, again, that was a Muslim.

Sixty-six percent of the criminal aliens imprisoned in the states in 2009 were Mexican.
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In the federal prisons, 68 percent of the criminal aliens were Mexican and nearly 90 percent were from one of eight countries: Mexico, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Jamaica, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala.
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Even in the beautiful mosaic of New York State, where prison inmates come from 124 different countries, the vast majority—75 percent—are from the Caribbean or Latin America.
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Doesn’t something kind of stick out like a sore thumb here? What other country on earth would be this stupid? Not Israel!

For every category the media care about, we get obsessively detailed reports on Hispanic percentages. We have studies showing Hispanics are
underrepresented in Hollywood,
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at top colleges,
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in the federal government,
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and in the national media.
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We’re told there are too few Hispanic veterinarians in Texas
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and not enough Hispanic cops in Utah.
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(An unseemly number of these reports were authored by Hispanics themselves, so one area where Latinos are definitely not deficient is self-esteem.)

You know where else Hispanics are underrepresented? In the U.S. military. You’d never know it, with the media showcasing every Hispanic troop,
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but Hispanics are half as likely to enlist in the military as either whites or blacks. The recruit-to-population ratio for whites is 1.06. For blacks it is 1.08. For Hispanics, it’s only 0.65. The media not only neglect to highlight this particular underrepresentation, they lie about it. An article published by the Population Reference Bureau—subsidized by taxpayers—is titled: “Latinos Claim Larger Share of U.S. Military Personnel.” To the untrained eye, this would seem to be saying that Latinos claim a larger share of U.S. military personnel. In fact, however, by “larger share,” the headline means “larger” compared with the past—not compared with other groups. The actual article admits that Hispanics constitute less than 12 percent of all enlistees, compared with 16 percent of the civilian workforce. Moreover, despite their machismo culture, a majority of Hispanic troops are women.
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Here’s a category where Hispanics are overrepresented: Prisons. There are about four times as many whites as Hispanics in the United States, according to the census, so let’s assume there are actually three times as many.
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And yet Hispanics commit 90 percent as many assaults as whites, nearly as many violent robberies (thirty-seven thousand Hispanics to thirty-eight thousand whites), and 84 percent as many murders (thirty-eight thousand Hispanics to forty-five thousand whites).
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Hispanics are only half as likely to be in prison for rape as whites, probably because white women in the United States are more than twice as likely to report rape as Hispanics.
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In fact, American women will report rapes that didn’t even happen. (See, e.g., University of Virginia, Columbia Mattress Girl, and Lena Dunham.) Hispanic males in the United States are more than three times
as likely to spend time in prison in their lifetimes than white males are.
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In 2010, 1,258 of every 100,000 Hispanic males were in prison, compared with 459 per 100,000 white males.
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Evidently, the dream of many “Dreamers” is to rob, assault, and murder Americans.

LOST A FRIEND TO DRUGS? THANK A MEXICAN

The vast majority of all drugs in America—heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and, increasingly, methamphetamine—are brought in from Mexico. Most of the heroin sold in the United States is grown south of the border, and Mexican cartels transport nearly all of it.
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Justice Brennan’s invention of birthright citizenship has been a bonanza for the drug trade. Now the cartels have Mexicans on both sides of the border to complete the distribution chain. Two of the Sinaloa cartel’s major American distributors, Pedro and Margarito Flores, were “Americans,” born to a family of cartel members in Chicago and raised in the Mexican part of the city. We have to make Mexican drug traffickers U.S. citizens so that Arianna Huffington can have cheap gardeners.

In 2012, the U.S. government estimated that 660,000 Americans were using heroin and more than 3,000 dying of it every year because Mexico was boosting the supply.
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About a quarter of all people who try heroin will become dependent on it, according to government estimates,
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and the precise appeal of methamphetamine to Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel was that it was “ragingly addictive,” according to the
New York Times
.
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Forbes
reports that there is “little doubt” that the heroin that killed Philip Seymour Hoffman came from Mexico.
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These aren’t “big city” problems: They’re Mexico-is-on-our-border problems.

Missouri had 18 heroin overdose deaths in 2001; ten years later, there were 245.
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Heroin deaths in Minnesota shot from 3 to 98 between 1999 and 2013.
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Michigan saw fatal heroin overdoses surge from a few dozen a year in 2002 to more than 100 a year starting in 2009.
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In just one year, heroin-related fatalities in Connecticut nearly doubled, to 257 in 2013.
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Between 2007 and 2012, heroin use in the United States is estimated to have increased by almost 80 percent.
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And that’s just heroin. More than 40,000 Americans were killed from all illegal drug use in 2010, surpassing car accidents and shootings as a cause of death.
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The addicts who die may be the lucky ones. In 2001, a seventeen-year-old boy in New Jersey who scored 700 on the math SAT took a heroin overdose that left him unable to stand, walk, or bathe himself. His mother, a globetrotting executive with Citibank, was forced to quit her job and become his full-time caretaker. After a year of hospitalization and more than a decade of therapy, he still needs his mother to carry him to the toilet. He has no recollection of taking an overdose, but packets of heroin and marijuana were found stored in a secret compartment in his bedroom.
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That’s what happened to one of America’s brightest young men because the head of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel discovered tunnels. As the
New York Times
admiringly put it: “[Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman’s] greatest contribution to the evolving tradecraft of drug trafficking was one of those innovations that seem so logical in hindsight it’s a wonder nobody thought of it before: a tunnel.”
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El Chapo is married to Emma Coronel: American anchor baby.
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In September 2011 Emma left the cartel’s hideout long enough to get to California, and give birth to her own American anchor babies.
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As soon as the twins were delivered, Emma went right back to Mexico to rejoin the man who replaced Osama bin Laden on both the FBI and Interpol’s Most Wanted list.
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America: Do you have any respect for yourself?

HERE ARE SOME FENCES THAT WORK!

China went to war to stop Britain from addicting its people to opium. On the eve of the Opium Wars, China’s drug czar said: “If we continue to allow this trade to flourish, in a few dozen years we will find ourselves not only with no soldiers to resist the enemy, but also with no money to equip
the army.”
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Today, China is once again battling drug smuggling because, like America, it also has a poor, corrupt nation with a massive humanitarian crisis on its border: Not Mexico, but North Korea. Guess what China did? It built a fence! Despite stern warnings from the
New York Times
, China put a thirteen-foot barbed wire fence on its border, patrolled by armed guards. And you know what,
New York Times
? It’s working!
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But America can’t have a fence because a fence on the border would be a crime against diversity.

You know who else has a border fence? The only democracy in the Middle East: Israel. In 2013, the
New York Times
’
Latitude
blog reported the “good news” about how well Israel’s fence was working: “The good news came in the form of statistics: In the last days of December, the number of illegal immigrants entering Israel dropped to zero for the first time in more than half a decade. The new fence that Israel is constructing along its border with Egypt, coupled with enhanced border-security measures, seems to be working.”
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Of the 10,365 illegal aliens who entered Israel in 2012, “9,200 were sent out.”

No one tells Netanyahu, “Show me a fence, I’ll show you a ladder.” But that’s all we hear from government officials about a fence on the U.S.-Mexican border. Give politicians a quip and they think they’re Pythagoras.

       
   
Former Homeland Security Secretary and Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano: “Show me a 50-foot wall and I’ll show you a 51-foot ladder at the border.”
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California Democratic Representative Sheila Jackson Lee: “And I know that you’ve heard this quote often, and that is that you build a fence 10 feet and they will get a ladder 11 feet.”
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