“Their game plan is: Never allow an honest debate on immigration. On every other important subject, both sides can be heard. The media are against pro-lifers, but it’s possible to hear the pro-life side - from churches, pro-life organizations, and the alternative press. The mainstream media neurotically push global warming, but, on the other side, we have the entire conservative media, MIT scientists, and even some lefties, like the late Alexander Cockburn of the Nation magazine. There was no difficulty getting both sides of the debate on the Iraq War. ObamaCare, the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, and any number of other hot button issues.
Only in the case of immigration is the public systematically lied to from every major news outlet. The media lie about everything, but immigration constitutes their finest hour of collective lying. They know their ideas on the topic are not popular.”
The point Coulter has made repeatedly in her book – that illegal immigrants are out there committing crimes against American citizens – has yet again come terribly true.
Now? After Coulter’s repeated efforts to break through, the issue is finally getting traction. A single remark from presidential candidate Donald Trump – Coulter sent him the book – has now generated that most American fury called a “media firestorm.” And above all, exactly the point Coulter has made repeatedly in her book – that illegal immigrants are out there committing crimes against American citizens – has yet again come terribly true. This time, with the murder of 32 year-old Kathryn Steinle in a San Francisco tourist attraction – in broad daylight and in front of her father – the issue is coming together. Steinle was murdered at random by 45-year old Francisco Sanchez, a seven-time convicted felon and a five-time deportee.
It should never have come to this. Never. But if Coulter had had her way this issue would have been dealt with long ago – but in fact this was made impossible. Says Coulter:
“With 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.
Their goal, therefore, is to prevent Americans from thinking about immigration….”
For a long, long time, this strategy worked. In the single moment it took for Francisco Sanchez to pull the trigger and take Kate Steinle’s life, the strategy exploded. And fortuitously, Coulter is at hand with a typically thoroughly researched book that investigates in detail exactly what the lay of the land is in terms of illegal immigrants.
Suffice to say, not only is the situation not good, what Coulter details in chapter and verse is appalling. The first thing she alerts the reader to is that “you will spend more time trying to obtain basic crime statistics about immigrants in America than trying to sign up for ObamaCare.” In short, there is a deliberate effort to camouflage the numbers that reveal how much crime has been committed by illegals. Pouring through obscure government documents from state and federal government reports Coulter finds “that half the correctional population in California consists of illegal aliens.”
Noting acerbically that “It’s rude to ask about the immigration status of the suspect” Coulter lasers in on exactly the thinking that has now produced the murder of Kate Steinle. And tellingly, she runs through a beginners list of what Americans are now realizing are unpublicized Kate Steinle-style murders and other crimes committed by illegals. Coulter notes that she:
“…ran a Nexis search of the words ‘fraud, food stamp, Medicare and insurance’. Unfortunately my computer exploded. A compilation of the perpetrators would produce enough comical foreign names to fill this entire book…..For brevity, here are some of the results from a single month, September 2014.”
What follows is an entire page of names convicted of everything from healthcare fraud to laundering drug money to credit card scams to food stamp fraud etc. etc. etc.
One of the more amazing aspects of all this is the way the media treats the issue. Coulter cites a case in Seattle as but one example of the way crime by illegals is dealt with in the press.
The crime “consisted of the repeated rapes of five little girls between the ages of four and ten.” The rapist had no remorse. The rapes went on for at least four years in spite of the fact the rapist was the boyfriend of the mother of the girls. The Seattle Times wrote the case up - sort of. It published the rapist’s name - “Salvador Aleman Cruz.” The article, however, was titled merely “Man Convicted on 7 Counts in Child-Rape Case.” Writes Coulter of the coverage, which consisted of a mere six articles in the Seattle paper and one by the Associated Press. The rapist’s legal status? There was only this clue in two short sentences: “After the assaults…Cruz fled to Mexico, prosecutors said. They were unsure of his immigration status.”
Coulter contrasts with the relentless coverage of the rape charges against the Duke lacrosse team, where “reporters pursued details about the accused men like starved bloodhounds. We were told the men’s grades, their classes, their professors’ impression of them, the value of their parents home, their private e-mails, their every encounter with the police - and on and on……But a child rapist named ‘Salvador Aleman Cruz’ (who) needs a Spanish translator in court and flees to Mexico after raping at least five little girls….” ? Both the media and the government shrug, saying “Oh yeah, we don’t know his immigration status. Why do you ask?”
Exactly.
There’s more here. Much, much more. Coulter broaches the subject of legal immigrants from Third World countries. She titles one chapter Why Can’t We Have Israel’s Policy on Immigration? and notes that “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.” She notes the common sense of an Israeli saying to the New York Times of the arrest of illegal immigrants to Israel: “It must be done or tomorrow we will have no country and we will have to look for another one.”
The shame is that it has taken the murder of Kathryn Steinle on the streets of San Francisco and the attention of presidential candidate Trump to finally make illegal immigration the front-and-center issue that it needs to be.
Of note, Coulter also reviews the illegal immigration views of several GOP candidates - Donald Trump not reviewed as he doubtless was not seen as a candidate while she was writing the book. Jeb Bush is described as a “wolf in wolf’s clothing” on the issue, with Mitt Romney, thought of as a potential candidate when she was writing, emerging as the decided champion of the anti-illegal movement.
Adios America is a must read. The shame is that it has taken the murder of Kathryn Steinle on the streets of San Francisco and the attention of presidential candidate Trump to finally make illegal immigration the front-and-center issue that it needs to be.
But front-and-center it is. In fact, it is no exaggeration to say the nation owes Ann Coulter a debt of gratitude for spending the massive amounts of time to do the nitty-gritty research into all the endless material that, when examined in detail and put in one place, presents a thorough - and thoroughly disturbing - portrait of the complete collapse of the American immigration system. And aside from being a tour de force on immigration? It is a reminder that recent events - the death of Kate Steinle tragically first among them - have vindicated Coulter’s relentless attention to the issue.
It will gall her critics to say it - so they never will. But I’ll say it: Ann Coulter was right.
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