Read Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole Online
Authors: Ann Coulter
Since 1990, the media have reported on fifty-three specific girls aged ten or younger who have given birth in Latin America.
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In the United States, with a population about 70 percent the size of the nine countries where those births occurred,
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there were four reported births to girls that young—and three were to immigrants. Two were fathered by Hispanic
immigrants, one by a Haitian illegal immigrant, and one by an American. But for William Edward Ronca,
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there would not be a single confirmed case of a white man in the Western Hemisphere impregnating a girl ten years old or younger. Go USA.
In fact, William Ronca appears to be the only white man in the entire world who has impregnated a girl that young. In all of Western Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand combined, there have been eight reported births to girls aged ten or younger. Seven of the eight involved immigrants.
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THEY’RE CHANGING US
In 1840 the famous chronicler of America, Alexis de Tocqueville, noted that although many criminal offenses in England had been abolished in the new country, Americans “still make rape a capital offence, and no crime is visited with more inexorable severity by public opinion.”
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He contrasted America with France, where rape was punished with far lesser penalties and “it is frequently difficult to get a verdict from a jury against the prisoner.” Our Supreme Court improvidently abolished America’s centuries-old tradition of permitting capital punishment for rape in 1977—over the objections of the Court’s two conservative justices, William Rehnquist and Chief Justice Warren Burger. But rape is still considered a pretty serious crime.
While international organizations are constantly having to ask other nations to please take rape seriously,
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Americans have been taking rape seriously since the first settlers arrived, four centuries ago. But our post-1965 immigration policy is creating an America more like the rest of the world. We aren’t helping the women of the Third World by bringing millions of them here. As Tocqueville also said, “Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.”
This is where numbers make a difference. We’re not changing the immigrants, they’re changing us. The rape of little girls isn’t even considered
a crime in Latino culture—and that culture is becoming our culture. Gloria Trevi, the international pop star known as “the Mexican Madonna,” nonchalantly told a reporter for the
New York Times
that sex with a child is acceptable in Mexico. “In the United States, a minor is a minor, and that’s a crime,” but in Mexico, she said, if the girl is over twelve, “it’s not a violation, and you can’t say anything.”
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In fact, in thirty-one of thirty-two states in Mexico, the age of consent for sex is twelve. Only in Mexico State is it fourteen.
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Credible accusations that Trevi had pimped twelve-year-old girls to her manager, Sergio Andrade, a man three times their age, only increased her popularity in Mexico.
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A book about police rape investigations reports that American policemen are learning to “be understanding of cultural differences” and keep an “open mind” about child rape because “the Hispanic culture is more accepting of statutory rape.”
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Describing his experiences working in one Hispanic community, an American detective said, “I have a large group of Hispanic men in their thirties and forties who are having intercourse with young girls. I’m being told it’s a cultural thing.” Hospitals would alert him to babies born to thirteen-year-olds impregnated by much older men, and he’d show up at the girl’s home, expecting to find parents ready to string up the guy. Instead, he said, “the family will say it’s a blessing and we’re so happy. I’ll explain it’s illegal, they cut me right off. I get a lot of those too.”
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In 2005, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, was less than 10 percent Hispanic; more than half of all statutory rape victims were Hispanic.
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The county gave up on prosecuting child rape cases because, as the chairman of the health committee, Norman Mitchell, said, “I don’t want to waste the community’s time on one item when we have a lot of items before us.”
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Has the
New York Times
published anything about this? CNN? The
Wall Street Journal
? A 2010 U.S. government study of two thousand adult Latino women in America found that 8 percent of respondents said they had been victims of childhood sexual abuse—compared with a national rate of childhood sexual abuse of about 0.1 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Transplanting millions of people, en masse, from the Third World to the United States won’t change their cultures any more than moving New Yorkers to Vermont made them flinty Republicans. Instead, Vermont became socialist. The idea that backward peasants will instantly acquire the characteristics of Americans is the kind of homeopathic magic New Guinea primitives would believe.
I know how we’ll get Third World people to give up child rape, slavery, animal sacrifice, and human dismemberment!
Bring them Christianity? Teach them to read? Give them economics textbooks?
No—I’ve noticed that successful middle-class people live in nice houses in American suburbs, so we’ll move illiterate peasants to American suburbs.
This is what Democrats and Marco Rubio are trying to do to our country: Bring in the depraved cultures of the Third World and pretend we’re changing them, rather than them changing us. Other countries are always welcome to adopt American ideas about equality before the law and Anglo-Saxon morality. They don’t need to leave home to do that. Instead, America is just bringing in a lot of rapists.
KEEP AMERICA
BEAUTIFUL
MULTICULTURAL
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O ONE SERIOUSLY BELIEVES THAT BRINGING IN HORDES OF THIRD WORLD
people has no effect on the environment. Preserving natural resources is an idiosyncrasy of prosperous cultures: Mexico is still in the slash-and-burn stage of capitalism, about a hundred years away from caring about the environment. Our illegal alien population alone is the size of Peru. The Pew Research Center estimates that in thirty-five years the United States’ population will be 438 million, of whom 100 million will be immigrants and their children. Numbers like that cannot help but to degrade America’s national parks and wilderness areas.
Will that wake up the bought-off environmentalists? They used to care about gridlock, overcrowding, loss of parkland, and exhaustion of natural resources. Not anymore. Today’s environmentalists turn a blind eye as 25 million people tramp through delicate ecosystems, set fire to national parks, kill livestock, dump tons of soiled diapers and Pepsi bottles in the desert, and deface ancient Native American sites. Political correctness demands that no one notice immigrants’ toll on the environment.
ACCUSATIONS OF BIGOTRY GO UP IN SMOKE—ALONG WITH OUR NATIONAL PARKS
In 2011, after a series of devastating wildfires raged through Arizona, burning half a million acres of land, Senator John McCain said something uncharacteristically sensible: “There is substantial evidence that some of these fires have been caused by people who have crossed our border illegally. The answer to that part of the problem is to get a secure border.”
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Instantly, McCain was attacked as a nativist xenophobe.
We have no idea who set the fires. It was probably a camper.
Illegal alien activist Randy Parraz sneered of McCain: “It’s easier to fan the flames of intolerance, especially in Arizona,”
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and the pro–illegal alien
Washington Post
ran this bracingly original headline: “John McCain Fans the Fires of Immigration Intolerance in Arizona.”
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La Raza’s Daniel Ortega accused McCain of spreading “fear and hate.” Representative Raul Grijalva, also from Arizona, put out a press release the day after McCain’s remarks accusing him of provoking “an extreme anti-immigrant and anti-Latino atmosphere in Arizona.”
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Five months later, the Government Accountability Office released its investigative report on Arizona wildfires: They’re mostly caused by illegal aliens.
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When McCain first made his remarks about illegal aliens being behind most of the Arizona wildfires, Forest Service spokesman Tom Berglund stridently denied that illegals had caused one specific fire,
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neglecting to mention that illegals were the single largest cause of all of Arizona’s wildfires. The Environmental Protection Agency issues regulations demanding that pesticides be purer than dirt in the ground, but then the government deliberately lies to us about illegal immigrants burning down our national parks.
Of the seventy-seven human-caused fires on federal or tribal land in Arizona between 2006 and 2010 investigated by the GAO, a cause could be determined in sixty cases. Fully half of those were caused by illegal aliens. Only five were caused by campers neglecting to fully extinguish a campfire, and the rest were freak accidents.
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One of the reasons the GAO
was able to review only seventy-seven fires was that the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service couldn’t spare any agents for investigations. They were too busy protecting “firefighters and their equipment from illegal aliens.”
Apparently, when illegals see border patrol agents, they try to distract them by throwing lighted matches in the brush to start fires. Not only do illegal immigrants intentionally set wildfires, but they violently attack firefighters trying to extinguish the blazes. Fires are allowed to rage, because fire crews are forced to wait for law enforcement protection. Arizona’s first major fire of 2009 occurred in Hog Canyon in the Peloncillo Mountains. With no law enforcement available to provide nighttime support, firefighters had to abandon their efforts at dusk. Overnight, the fire spread from three hundred acres to three thousand acres, eventually consuming seventeen thousand acres of parkland.
Illegal aliens also prevent firefighters from using their radios. As the Forest Service blandly states: “[F]irefighters are instructed not to use radios when they encounter illegal border crossers because illegal border crossers may believe that firefighters are reporting their location to law enforcement and react violently.”
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I wonder if it would help if firefighters didn’t have to worry about being attacked by illegal aliens. And wouldn’t it be a big help if there were half as many wildfires? Calculating only the cost of fires on national parks, a fence on the border is a bargain.
AMERICANS BEGIN A LIFETIME OF SERVICE TO FOREIGN LAWBREAKERS
The Forest Service had once gamely suggested trying to identify “the group most likely to start fires,” but once the evidence was in, they buried it. To blame illegal aliens would be playing the old “blame the perpetrator” game.
Despite the evidence adduced by the GAO showing that illegal immigrants are both the single largest cause of wildfires and also the biggest
impediment to extinguishing them, the government report dared not suggest building a fence. We can’t do that because
fences don’t work! Diversity is a strength!
Instead, our government decided that 100 percent of the price of illegal aliens’ fire setting should be paid by Americans. Let’s teach
Americans
about fire prevention.
After noticing that a lot of the wildland fires in California’s Cleveland National Forest were being set by illegal aliens, for example, the Border Agency Fire Council in Southern California decided the solution was to hire Americans to go into the areas trafficked by illegals and put their fires out for them. Maybe we could cook their food and give them space heaters, too! Not incidentally, the Fire Council is made up of forty-three U.S.
and Mexican
government agencies. Weirdly, it didn’t occur to them to stop the illegal activity leading to the fires. Instead of being made a laughingstock, the Fire Council’s approach was touted as an innovative approach by the GAO in its report to Congress.
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DRUG CARTELS IN OUR NATIONAL PARKS
Starting enormous conflagrations in our national parks may be the least of illegal immigrants’ attacks on this country’s natural beauty. Because of new border restrictions after 9/11—I guess it
was
possible to tighten the borders!—our dear friends in Mexico moved their drug cartel operations directly into America’s parks. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks—committed by immigrants—a lot of Americans decided to take their vacations here in the United States. If they went to one of our national parks, they might have been threatened with guns by other immigrants.
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One hunter in the Angeles National Forest was seized by illegal aliens and held at gunpoint for getting too close to their pot farm on American parkland. When law enforcement officers later approached the area, the cartel members shot an agent.
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“These guys shoot people,” a Forest Service agent told the
New York Times
, and “they do not distinguish between police, hunters or campers.”
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The Mexicans also protect their pot gardens
with bear traps, trip wires rigged to shotguns, and razor blade–equipped booby traps.
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In 2003, a national parks spokesman confirmed that in this “new onslaught on the parks,” seizures of marijuana crops in some areas had shot up by 800 percent—“far greater than anything we’ve ever seen before.”
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At least we get absolute honesty from the government. One month after U.S. Park Rangers had arrested eight illegal aliens from Mexico tending a marijuana farm in the middle of Sequoia National Park, President Bush hailed Mexican immigrants for their contributions to the American economy.
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