Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole (13 page)

About the same time, Hollywood High School was flipping from the storied institute of legend to the high school of the barrio. Or, as CNN put it in a series of rave reviews for the “predominantly Latino” school: “Hollywood High Now a Diverse High School.”

Hollywood High alumni include Cher, Carol Burnett, Lon Chaney, James Garner, Linda Evans, John Huston, Judy Garland, Ricky Nelson, Sarah Jessica Parker, John Ritter, Mickey Rooney, Lana Turner, and Fay Wray, among many others. By the mid-2000s, Hollywood High was more than 70 percent Hispanic,
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and students were less likely to be getting publicity shots than mug shots. Today the school is mostly famous for its stabbings, shootings, child molestations, thefts, and graffiti.
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Around 1990, a California TV producer trying to enroll a German exchange student in a Los Angeles high school asked the principal at Fairfax High if a foreign exchange student would be better served by Fairfax or Hollywood High. Without looking up, the principal replied, “Well, 90% of my students can speak English, and we haven’t had a shooting here in 5 years.” As CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux said, that’s why Hollywood High School is called “Diversity High.”
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In 2011, the
New York Times
described the angry reaction of Mexicans living in 80 percent Hispanic El Paso to proposals to enforce the border. People in the majority-Mexican town booed when Obama mentioned putting up a fence, viewing efforts to reduce illegal immigration from Mexico as part of a “larger surge of xenophobia.”
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So Hispanics living in a town that’s already 80 percent Hispanic denounce limits on how many
more
Hispanics can move in as “xenophobia.” You know who doesn’t seem to like diversity? Hispanics. Do they fear white Americans, seeing them as “the other,” as they say on MSNBC? Why are we letting in immigrants who are racists? At what point will the
New York Times
stop accusing opponents of nonstop immigration from Latin America of “xenophobia”? (That’s a
rhetorical question. The answer is: “Never.”) The
Times
needs to come up with a new word for people who think 80 percent Hispanic is enough, something like “I-Didn’t-Want-to-Live-in-Mexico-bia.”

DOESN’T MEXICO WANT ANY MEXICANS?

America has already taken in more than one-quarter of Mexico’s entire population, according to the Pew Research Center’s analysis of census data.
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The United States has more Hispanics than any other country besides Mexico.
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Do we have to admit all 120 million Mexicans to prove to the
New York Times
that we’re not “nativist”? Eighty percent Mexican wasn’t good enough for the Hispanic residents of El Paso. In two states, New Mexico and California, Hispanics have already surpassed whites as the largest ethnic group—and that’s just the official count from the U.S. census, which massively undercounts illegal aliens. The Hispanic population, overwhelmingly Mexican,
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makes up 47 percent of New Mexico, 39 percent of California, 38 percent of Texas, 30 percent of Arizona, and 27 percent of Nevada.
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Hispanics are also the largest minority group in Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
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Is that “diverse” enough, yet?

This is a shockingly rapid transformation. In 1980—back when California was giving us our Republican presidents—it was home to 4.5 million Hispanics.
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Today, there are officially 14 million.
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There are more Hispanics in California than there are people in 46 other states.
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Reagan couldn’t get elected in a congressional district there now. And the state is running like a top! According to the county supervisor, Los Angeles alone spends more than $1.6 billion a year on illegal aliens—$600 million for welfare, $550 million for public safety (mostly jail costs), and $500 million for their healthcare.
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In 1980, Nevada was less than 6.8 percent Hispanic.
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By 2010, Hispanics had grown an astonishing 386
percent to nearly one-third of the population. Or, as Brookings Institution researchers put it, “the ethnic composition of the state has become considerably more diverse.”
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Would the media be so thrilled with mass immigration if it were coming from Western Europe? No, the blue-chip immigrant investment is Hispanic—maybe Indian or African. You can’t lose with those in
New York Times
World. Tatars are worthless in multicultural terms. They, too, have a distinctive look and unique culture, but it’s not going to get you anywhere in America being a Tatar.

Diversity in immigration ought to mean every country on earth sends the same percentage of immigrants. Instead, our immigration policies are producing a
less
diverse country. Before Teddy Kennedy’s 1965 immigration act extended “civil rights” to the entire world, immigrants to America were far more varied. Seven countries each provided 5 percent or more of the total number of immigrants each year—Italy, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, Poland, the Soviet Union, and Mexico.

By 2000, Mexico was the only country supplying more than 5 percent, accounting for nearly a third of all immigrants to the United States. China came in a distant second, finally surpassing 5 percent in 2010.
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At the same time, immigrants from Britain, Canada, Germany, Italy, and Poland were cut off—none of these countries was among the top ten immigrant-supplying countries by 2010. Each one accounts for less than 2 percent of all immigration to America.
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In 1970, there were fewer than 10 million foreign born in the United States, and 75 percent of them were from Europe. By 2010, there were 40 million foreign-born in the United States and only 13 percent were from Europe.
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Even the pro-browning-of-America Pew Research Center describes Mexico’s domination of American immigration as “one of the largest mass migrations in modern history.”
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From 1890 to 1970, there weren’t enough Hispanics in America for the Census Bureau to count.
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In 1970, there were fewer than a million Mexican immigrants here. Today there are between 25 million and 50 million Mexican immigrants, depending on whose
estimate of the illegal population you accept. And that’s not including babies born to Mexican illegal immigrants, who are instantly labeled “Americans.”

Commenting on this stunning displacement of Americans by Mexicans, the Census Bureau dryly stated: “Paradoxically, as the number of foreign born continued to increase after 1980 and the regions of origins shifted to include more countries in Latin America and Asia, the foreign born became proportionally concentrated into fewer country-of-birth groups.”
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Paradoxically!

This isn’t “paradoxical”; it’s “diabolical.” The Democrats never particularly cared for Americans, so they needed to bring in new people. Immigration is the advance wave of left-wing, Third World colonization of America. Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards used to claim that there are “two Americas,” the rich and the poor. If Democrats have their way, there will be two Latin Americas, both of them poor. You’re living in one of them right now.

THERE ARE A LOT MORE THAN 11 MILLION ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

Most Americans have no idea of the scale of Third World immigration pouring into the country. This is where numbers can make a difference. Sometimes quantity is quality. So it’s significant that Americans are being so aggressively lied to about the number of illegal immigrants in the country. Has it ever seemed strange that there have been exactly 11 million illegals here for the past decade? Did they stop coming? That’s hard to believe. President Bush prosecuted border guards for getting too rough with illegals. President Obama encouraged one hundred thousand illegals to surge across the border, then put them on buses to their new homes in the United States, courtesy of the taxpayer.

The reason we are angrily told there are 11 million illegals and you’re a racist if you say there is one more than that is that if Americans ever
suspected there were 30 million illegal immigrants in the United States, our elected officials would find out what a “crisis” really is.

There were 11 million illegals in the United States as of 2005, according to everyone. Thus, for example, the pro-browning Pew Hispanic Center estimated the number of illegal aliens in the United States to be 11.1 million in March 2005.
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The Department of Homeland Security put it at 10.5 million in January 2005.
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Other estimates from the
New York Times
, the Center for Immigration Studies, the Urban Institute, and the Current Population Survey produced similar numbers.
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It’s been a decade and we’re still being told—emphatically—that there are just 11 million illegal immigrants here. Manifestly, 11 million is less a serious estimate and more “the smallest number illegal immigration advocates think they can get away with.” The usual impulse of special interest groups is to overestimate their numbers. But with illegal immigration, the number has to be just large enough to hector Republicans about alienating the coming Hispanic majority, but not so high that Americans boil politicians in oil.

The reason all the estimates from Pew, DHS, CIS, the Urban Institute, and the Current Population Survey are nearly identical—11 million!—is that they all use the same census data. To count illegals, analysts subtract the number of legal immigrants (estimated from those who answered census surveys) from the number of foreign-born residents (also estimated from those who answered census surveys). But if the census’s figures are wrong, then, obviously, so are the estimates.

THE REAL NUMBER IS 30 MILLION ILLEGALS

There’s good reason to believe the census numbers are wrong. In 2005, two Bear Stearns analysts, Robert Justich and Betty Ng, warned clients that there was “significant evidence” that the census undercounted the illegal immigrant population by at least half.
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They estimated the number at
closer to 20 million—and they were advising clients about something important: their money.

Justich and Ng discounted the census data because it relied on illegal aliens answering surveys. As Justich told the
Wall Street Journal
, “The assumption that illegal people will fill out a census form is the most ridiculous concept I have ever heard of.”
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People who have left their families, paid huge sums of money to smugglers, trekked thousands of miles, and broken American law to enter this country don’t have much incentive to fill out questionnaires from the U.S. government.

The census tried to account for the reluctance of illegal aliens to answer government surveys by adding 10 percent to their population estimate. Guess where they got 10 percent? From another survey of illegals. In 2001, the University of California asked Mexican-born residents of Los Angeles if they had taken the recent census. Ten percent said “no.” But almost 40 percent refused to take that survey.
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Citing the work of anthropologist Maxine Margolis, Justich and Ng argued that the nonresponse rate of illegal immigrants might be quite a bit higher than 10 percent. In 1990, Margolis found that the Brazilian consulate counted 100,000 Brazilians living in New York City, while the Brazilian foreign office put the number at 230,000. That same year, the 1990 census reported that only 9,200 Brazilians lived in New York City.
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Dispensing with the census’s figures, the Bear Stearns analysts looked at remittances from the United States to Mexico. These are electronic money transfers recorded by a nation’s central bank—not surveys of people who don’t want to answer surveys. The report found that while the number of Mexicans living in the United States was supposed to have grown by only 56 percent from 1995 to 2003, remittances from the United States to Mexico grew by almost 200 percent, even as the median weekly wage increased by just 10 percent. The Bear Stearns report also compared the growth in housing permits and school enrollment with official population figures in various immigrant enclaves. According to the census, for
example, the combined population growth of Brunswick, Elizabeth, and Newark, New Jersey, was only 5.6 percent between 1990 and 2003. But housing permits in these towns grew by more than 600 percent, and 80 percent of the new permits were for multiple dwellings.

From these and other calculations, they estimated the illegal population to be 20 million, and that was back in 2005. The very next year—the same year illegal immigration was supposed to have nearly stopped—two Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalists, Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, undertook their own study for
Time
magazine and concluded that “the number of illegal aliens flooding into the U.S. this year will total 3 million—enough to fill 22,000 Boeing 737-700 airliners, or 60 flights every day for a year. It will be the largest wave since 2001 and roughly triple the number of immigrants who will come to the U.S. by legal means.”
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But according to every major news outlet, America gained fewer than a million illegal immigrants that year, and then miraculously went right back down to 11 million illegals by 2007.

Combining Justich and Ng’s conclusion that there were 20 million illegal aliens here in 2005 with the estimate of Pulitzer Prize winners Barlett and Steele that another 3 million illegal immigrants would enter in 2006, plus at least another 3 million illegals coming in every year throughout the following decade—surely a low estimate—would mean there are at least 30 million illegal immigrants in the United States today. To most Californians, 30 million seems low.