Read Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole Online
Authors: Ann Coulter
Rich people for the nannies, maids, and gardeners;
Republicans for the campaign cash; and
Churches for the taxpayer money.
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You will notice that none of these reasons has anything to do with what’s good for the country.
An immigration law premised on the idea that America owes the rest of the world would be bad enough. But Third World immigration + massive welfare state + political correctness =
The End of America
. We not only favor immigrants as different from us as possible, but we no longer ask anything of immigrants in terms of assimilation. We can’t. That would be “racist.”
In 1915, future Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis gave a speech on what he called “Americanization Day”—the Fourth of July. He said that the process of newcomers becoming Americans involved not only superficial changes, such as adopting “the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here” or even the “far more important” acquisition of English.
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The change, he said, was far more “fundamental”:
[T]he immigrant is not Americanized unless his interests and affections have become deeply rooted here. And we properly demand of the immigrant even more than this. He must be brought into complete harmony with our ideals and aspirations and cooperate with us for their attainment. Only when this has been done will he possess the national consciousness of an American.
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And Brandeis was talking exclusively about European immigrants—not Mapuche Indians of Araucanía, with their rich tradition of human sacrifice.
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Flash to 2014
: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upholds a California school’s ban on wearing American flag T-shirts so as not to upset Mexican immigrants celebrating Cinco de Mayo.
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It is impossible
to imagine a prominent American like Louis Brandeis giving a speech today titled: “True Americanism”—unless it were to pay tribute to the important contribution made by Mexicans demonstrating on Cinco de Mayo.
As long as the immigrants were white Europeans, America was allowed to demand that they assimilate, by which it is meant: You adopt our culture. Not: You get to impose your culture on us. But now that our immigrants are overwhelmingly poor brown people, the rules of political correctness require that we submit to their culture. “[W]e have left the time,” Martha Farnsworth Riche of the Population Reference Bureau said in 1991, “when the nonwhite, non-Western part of our population could be expected to assimilate to the dominant majority. In the future, the white Western majority will have to do some assimilation of its own.”
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By 1993, citizenship ceremonies were being conducted in Spanish—presided over by U.S. District Judge Alfredo Marquez—a Carter appointee, naturally. When some Americans complained about Spanish-language swearing-in ceremonies, civil rights advocate Isabel Garcia de Romo accused them of “insulting the American people by making us think that we need to function with only one language and only one culture.”
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Before 1980, the census didn’t even ask about languages other than English spoken at home.
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By 2010, 60 million people primarily spoke a language other than English. Thirty-seven million people living in America spoke Spanish at home, followed by Chinese, French, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Korean.
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Pew Research estimates that by 2050, Hispanics will make up 30 percent of the country and Asians nearly 10 percent, while whites will constitute less than half of the population.
We have some worthy recent immigrants who vote Republican right away and don’t require six generations to understand the Democrats. But most don’t. Unlike in Brandeis’s day, immigrants today are immediately sunk into the warm bath of food stamps, housing assistance, Social Security disability payments, and multilingual ballots and street signs. The whole country can’t keep suffering through Obama presidencies just to
teach the newcomers a life lesson. We can’t wait for every state to become California for the country to see what a white-minority country will be like.
NOWHERE LEFT TO GO
It’s not helping to have liberals patronizing immigrants with manifest nonsense about America being “a nation of immigrants!” If U.S. schools still taught U.S. history, this would not come as an exciting surprise, but America is not a nation of immigrants. It’s a nation of British and Dutch settlers. We all have a stake in preserving what they created—“we” meaning all of us, except the very rich and the Democratic Party. If America disappears—the America liberals hate and Wall Street is indifferent to—everyone will suffer.
Despite a hegemonic propaganda campaign about all cultures being equal, they aren’t. Americans are utterly unprepared for the cultures being imposed on them, and the media cover-up can’t hide the truth forever. People notice when their little girls are raped and killed by Mexicans, their Arab shopkeepers commit honor killings, their Hmong neighbors are pimping out little girls and clubbing German shepherd puppies to death, their Indian landlord is importing concubines, and their Chinese acquaintances are murdering their wives out of “humiliation.” They notice when Albanians and Russians move in—and suddenly their communities are hotbeds of human trafficking, Medicare fraud, and “crash for cash” auto insurance frauds. They can see when their national parks are closed because Mexicans have dumped trash, set wildfires, planted pot farms, and scrawled graffiti on ancient Indian petroglyphs.
This is a price the elites are happy to pay. Of course, they aren’t the ones paying it. The Third World invasion being aggressively hidden by the media will never make it to Park Avenue or Nob Hill. The price is being paid exclusively by ordinary Americans. Almost alone in the world, white, Protestant, Anglo-Saxon America has been a haven for minorities, women,
children, plants, and animals. None have fared so well in any other culture. As the lawyer for two Iraqi men charged with child rape in Nebraska said, America’s views about women and children “put us in the minority position in the world.”
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Once America is gone, there won’t be anyplace left to go.
AMERICA TO THE MEDIA: WHATEVER YOU WANT, JUST DON’T CALL US RACISTS
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ITH IMMIGRATION, THE MOST POWERFUL FORCES IN OUR CULTURE ARE ALL
on the same page—the Democrats, the rich, Washington lobbyists, Republican consultants, and money-grubbing churches. Even stalwarts on other conservative issues, like the
Wall Street Journal
, are with the Left on mass immigration from the Third World. When it comes to society’s rich and powerful, immigration is the great unifier. The only ones opposed to fundamentally transforming this country into some other country are the American people.
IF ONLY OUR BORDERS WERE POLICED AS WELL AS OUR SPEECH
Their goal, therefore, is to prevent Americans from thinking about immigration. Mass-immigration advocates keep banning words, so no one can ever talk about what is being done to the country. They say,
Great, sure, talk about immigration. Here are the ground rules: You’re not allowed to use
the words “amnesty,” “alien,” “illegal,” “Third World,” or “primitive culture.”
They’re halfway to banning the word “Mexican.” (That’s how popular immigration is!) Any mention of the forbidden words will prompt open-borders proponents to veer off into a lecture about tolerance and racism.
Oh well, if it’s racist, we want no part of it. We didn’t realize the
New York Times
had made that finding.
It’s bad enough that illegal immigrants are taking African Americans’ jobs, but they’re trying to take black Americans’ history, too. As you may have heard, blacks were brought to America as slaves, freed by Republicans, then discriminated against for another century—mostly by Democrats—until Republicans finally got the Democrats to stop. Because of that, blacks can tell the rest of us to stop using certain words. Immigrants can’t. They don’t get to piggyback on the black experience in America. Immigrants: You’re not black. If your ethnic group has been aggrieved, go back and address the perpetrators. You don’t get to make demands on Americans, and you certainly don’t get to control our language. Just because immigration cheerleaders want to avoid a debate doesn’t give them the right to label random words the equivalent of the “N-word.”