Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole (42 page)

MUSLIM TERRORIST FARMWORKERS

The special agricultural amnesty of 1986 is a good example of how even the most reasonable-sounding immigration law will inevitably be turned into a pipeline for criminals, welfare cases, and terrorists. As Congress debated the amnesty bill, newspapers were full of stories about “beleaguered” farmers with crops rotting in the fields who were “sick with worry” that the law would “rob” them of “the migrant workers who are the backbone of the field labor force,” as the
Los Angeles Tim
es put it.
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Coming to the rescue was then-Representative Chuck Schumer! (Words that should chill you to the bone.) Illegal alien farmworkers who could prove they had done seasonal farmwork for a total of ninety days between May 1, 1985, and May 1, 1986, would be granted temporary legal status. What could go wrong?

In the first three years of the program, 888,637 agricultural amnesty applications were identified as fraudulent—but only 60,020 of those were denied.
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Overwhelmed with amnesty applications under just this one provision, the INS found it to be a big time-saver to simply ignore fraud.
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As one longtime INS employee explained, “Since documentation wasn’t required, the burden was on the government to prove the aliens were not farmers. Fraud was widespread and enforcement virtually impossible.”
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Consequently, more than eight hundred thousand deceitful applications for amnesty were granted.

Among the fraudulent farmworker amnesties approved by the INS was one from Egyptian Mahmud Abouhalima,
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or—as he was known in the terrorist community—“Mahmud the Red.” Mahmud had come to the United
States as a “tourist” from Germany—where he had been denied political asylum, but got around that by marrying an emotionally disturbed alcoholic, and then married another German woman after divorcing the first when she objected to his taking a second wife.
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At the end of 1985, Mahmud and his second wife took a “three-week” trip to the United States on tourist visas and promptly settled into an apartment in Brooklyn.
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Luckily for Mahmud, just as his tourist visa was expiring six months later, Schumer’s farmworker amnesty became law. So Mahmud submitted an application, claiming to have worked on a farm in South Carolina, despite having never left New York, except one short visit to the Michigan Islamic community.
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Mahmud was approved. Otherwise, crops would rot in the fields! And what a wonderful agricultural worker Mahmud was. He became a limo driver in New York, where he repeatedly had his license suspended for ripping off customers and speeding through red lights because he was busy reading the Koran. But exhibiting that can-do spirit we so admire in immigrants, Mahmud simply drove without a license, delighting his customers with the Arabic sermons blaring from the car’s tape player.
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Two years after receiving his “farmworker” amnesty, Mahmud was granted temporary legal residence in the United States. For the next few years, he repeatedly flew to Pakistan for combat training. In 1990, Mahmud became a U.S. permanent resident. That was a big year for Mahmud. In 1990, Mahmud busied himself:

       
   
driving Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, the terrorist known as “the Blind Sheikh” (who managed to stay in the United States by repeatedly applying for asylum);

       
   
murdering Omar’s chief rival, Mustafa Shalabi (suspected, crime unsolved);

       
   
providing the getaway car for El Sayyid Nosair, after he assassinated Rabbi Kahane in Brooklyn, although Nosair ended up jumping in the wrong Arab’s taxi.
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Three years later, Mahmud was one of the main conspirators in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which blew a hole in the skyscraper five stories deep, cratered the ceiling of a PATH train, killed six people, injured thousands, and caused half a billion dollars in property damage. Mahmud then fled the country—leaving crops to rot in the field! He was captured by the Egyptians, tried in the United States, and convicted. Without her husband’s terrorist income to support her, his German wife now lives on welfare in the United States.
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Mohammed Salameh, another terrorist convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was also in the United States because of Schumer’s special agricultural worker amnesty. The unskilled nineteen-year-old first came to the United States on a tourist visa because, as the U.S. consulate later explained, someone in the office “took a chance” on Mohammed.
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Mohammed not only had never worked on a farm, but he was not even in the country until 1988, two years
after
the special amnesty became law, though it was explicitly limited to those who had worked on farms in the United States
in the year before May 1, 1986.

By the most basic definition of the law, Mohammed was not eligible, but he was allowed to stay in the United States and obtain a work visa—while the INS processed his petition. Moving with the lightning speed of a government agency, the INS rejected his petition for amnesty as a farmworker three years later. Then, Mohammed applied for a general amnesty, claiming he had been living continuously in the United States from 1982 to 1986. Actually, he was a teenager in Jordan then, but again, Mohammed was allowed to stay while the INS considered his request. As it was considering, Mohammed bombed the World Trade Center.
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Even if someone at the INS had promptly rejected his application, noticing that Mohammed only arrived in the United States in 1988—he still couldn’t have been deported. Schumer had included a provision prohibiting the INS from taking any action against any immigrant who merely
applied
for agricultural amnesty. That might discourage fraudulent applications! No matter how laughably fictional, Mohammed’s request for a
farmworker amnesty immunized him from deportation. He would still be setting off bombs as a frustrated farmworker had he not returned the van used in the bombing to the Ryder rental agency to get his deposit back.
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Gosh, we really are getting the smartest immigrants.

The ringleader of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was Ramzi Yousef. He came to the United States without a visa but claimed asylum and was released into the country. He got a free immigration lawyer from the white-shoe law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher.
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With pinpoint timing, one year before the World Trade Center bombing—committed by a couple of “farmworkers,” an asylum seeker, and several “tourists”—the
New Republic
published an indignant screed about the heartless storm troopers at the INS, who see their jobs as “enforcement” rather than “providing public services and immigration benefits”—in the words of Ignatius Bau of San Francisco’s Coalition for Immigration Reform.
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NOT-SO-HIGH-TECH WORKERS

What about all those brainy, high-tech H-1B immigrants that Senator Orrin Hatch keeps telling us about?

The media gush about the legions of star-performer immigrants, but, suspiciously, they always list the exact same ones—all white, all male, and of British, Dutch, German, and Russian stock: Peter Thiel of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, etc. (born in Germany); Elon Musk of
X.com
, Tesla, etc. (born in South Africa—to a Canadian mother and a South African–born British father); Sergey Brin of Google (born in Russia). None of them came to the United States on H-1B visas.

For an objective view of high-tech immigrants, the
New York Times
turned to Vivek Wadhwa, who boasted that “over half of Silicon Valley tech start-ups and a quarter of those nationwide were founded by immigrants from 1995–2005.” It’s probably not a coincidence that Wadhwa did not say what fraction of these “start-ups” were either successful or original. There are lots of me-too startups ripping off investors and adding nothing to the
economy. Wadhwa excitedly added that a “majority” of Indian and Chinese immigrants who go home “want to start a company.”
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Yes, and a majority of girls who go to Hollywood “want to be movie stars.”