Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole (48 page)

CHRIS CHRISTIE

Governor Chris Christie was famously duped by Senator Chuck Schumer into supporting comprehensive immigration reform. Schumer considered Christie such a patsy that he immediately leaked the news that he had buffaloed Christie on amnesty in a single thirty-minute phone call. Christie’s Senate appointee then voted for the bill. A few months later, Christie doubled down on amnesty by giving in-state tuition to illegal aliens.

RAND PAUL

Senator Rand Paul calls illegal aliens “undocumented citizens” and has fully banished the word “amnesty” from his vocabulary, using the word “normalize” instead. He even refers to Reagan’s amnesty—which everyone
calls “amnesty”—as a time “when we normalized people back in 1986.” Paul frequently cites the imaginary tax boon we’ll get by dumping 30 million poor people on the country.
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He coos to illegal immigrants—or “undocumented citizens”—“We will find a place for you” and “We’re saying you don’t have to go home,” demanding that we acknowledge that “we aren’t going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.” Instead of a fence, the libertarian wants the government to tell us when the border is secure.

Under pressure from his base, Paul voted against the Schumer-Rubio amnesty, but promptly backtracked. In under a year, Paul was warning conservatives that “the Hispanic community is not going to hear us until we get beyond this [immigration] issue,”
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and cutting ads for the amnesty-supporting Chamber of Commerce.
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He got fantastic press from the
New York Times
, which was expected, but he also continued to be cited as a true-blue conservative warrior by alleged conservatives. Even after Paul’s about-face on amnesty, Chris Chocola, then-president of the Club for Growth, hailed him as one of the important tea party conservatives who “influenced the rest of them.”
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RICK SANTORUM

In his twelve years in the Senate, Santorum showed no interest in immigration—a point made by his 2006 Democratic opponent Bob Casey when Santorum tried to use illegal immigration as an election issue. (Republicans are fiercely opposed to immigration whenever they need our votes!) Santorum did vote against the 2006 Kennedy-McCain amnesty,
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but he also voted against sanctions on employers who hire illegals—another point made by Casey, who ended up winning the election.
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In his 2012 presidential campaign, Santorum continued to oppose punishing employers who use illegal alien labor.
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TED CRUZ

In September 2012, Senator Ted Cruz told the
New York Times
, “I have said many times that I want to see common-sense immigration reform
pass.” He expressly rejected the idea of self-deportation, saying that “he had never tried to undo the goal of allowing them to stay.” His main interest in immigration, he told the
Times
, was the “real need for labor” by farmers and ranchers.
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He said he also wanted to change the law so that even more Mexicans and Chinese could immigrate here legally.

Cruz voted against the Rubio amnesty bill, but proposed amendments to it that would
double
legal immigration from 675,000 to 1.3 million a year and quintuple the number of “high tech” H-1B visas, from 65,000 to 325,000 per year.
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Even Rubio’s bill only increased “high tech” visas—a.k.a. tickets into the country for Lakireddy Bali Reddy’s concubines—to 180,000 a year.
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Cruz also offered an amendment that would theoretically prevent amnestied illegal aliens from ever obtaining citizenship. Most amnesty opponents breathed a sigh of relief when it failed: It would have been overturned by a court in five minutes, but would have made the amnesty bill deceptively attractive.
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After the Schumer-Rubio bill passed, Cruz blasted it as “amnesty”—a word that few other elected Republicans are willing to use under any circumstances. So perhaps, like Governor Scott Walker, Cruz has flip-flopped to America’s side on immigration. Given the likely field of GOP presidential candidates, purer-than-thou conservatives better get ready to do some flip-flopping of their own on flip-flopping candidates.

MITT ROMNEY

As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney repeatedly vetoed bills giving illegal aliens in-state tuition, and the legislature was never able to override him. He made clear he would also veto any bill allowing driver’s licenses for illegal aliens, so those never made it to his desk. He vetoed a bill to give health coverage to illegal aliens—but the legislature overruled him. About the time Jeb Bush was pressuring the Florida legislature to give illegals driver’s licenses, Romney sought and received a special agreement with federal immigration officials allowing Massachusetts state troopers to arrest illegal aliens.
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Romney was Jan Brewer before Jan Brewer was Jan Brewer.

For this, Romney was unremittingly attacked by Third World–immigration boosters such as Senator Teddy Kennedy and activist Ali Noorani.
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The Democratic attorney general of Massachusetts, Thomas Reilly, called a press conference to denounce Governor Romney as “mean-spirited” for vetoing the bill to give illegals in-state tuition. In response, Romney invited the press to his office and showed them that the proposed reduction in tuition for illegals would cost the state millions of dollars a year.
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Romney is the only serious presidential candidate ever to support E-Verify and a fence on the border—unequivocally. The media, GOP consultants, the big donors, and the Bush family all attacked him for his suggestion that illegal aliens would “self-deport.” Media darling John McCain blustered to the
New Yorker
that “everybody agrees” that Romney’s “biggest mistake” was to say “quote, self-deport.” Chuckling at the madness of it, McCain said, “I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when I heard that, because you can’t have eleven million people self-deport.” How does McCain think they got here?

Despite ferocious blowback and zero support from people allegedly opposed to amnesty, Romney never backed away from his immigration positions, not even after Rupert Murdoch insisted that he change his position in a private meeting a few months before the election.

The point of this exercise is to ask: Why didn’t you know that, reader? Why—to this day—do so many conservatives tout Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz as “bold colors, no pastels” Republicans—especially compared with that miserable establishment RINO, Mitt Romney? Would the NRA hide truthful information about candidates’ positions on guns from their members? Immigration groups do! Numbers USA gave Romney a “C+” on immigration. C+! Anti-immigration websites carped about Romney throughout the campaign. What does he have to do? Build the fence himself?

Fake conservatives and tea partiers followed the crowd and slammed Romney as an “establishment” Republican. Alleged conservative spokesmen put Romney in the same camp as Chris Christie and Jeb Bush. It would be as if gun-rights supporters couldn’t tell the difference between
Senator Joni Ernst and Representative Carolyn McCarthy, or pro-lifers described Rick Santorum and Susan Collins in the same breath.

On the eve of the Republican sweep in the 2014 midterm elections, Romney predicted on
Fox News Sunday
that a Republican Congress would “deal with those who come here illegally”
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—heaven help him if he had said “self-deport” again! Conservatives went ballistic, accusing him of supporting amnesty, betraying them, losing his marbles. Within hours,
Breitbart.com
was headlining Sarah Palin’s denunciation of Romney: “Gov. Romney Is in Never-Never Land on This One.”
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Maybe “amnesty” is what Romney meant when he said “deal with the illegal immigrants already here,” although he had never supported it before, despite enormous pressure to do so. But do these hairy-chested amnesty opponents know that every other possible GOP presidential candidate has said
explicitly
what they’re accusing Romney of saying implicitly? There’s some weird psychological block when conservatives are fiery with indignation at Romney for a vague statement about immigration—because it could be interpreted to mean what every other Republican says in no uncertain terms.

The NRA never loses and the anti-immigration groups never win because immigration opponents don’t lift a finger to help politicians who are on their side. Voters are
dying
to send a message on immigration, but all they get is lies from alleged conservatives about how to do that. Romney must wonder why he bothered holding a position so unpopular with his donors on immigration. Perhaps he genuinely believes that turning America into Mexico is a bad idea.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: YOU CAN’T HAVE EVERYTHING

Democrats have no choice but to keep pushing to admit ever more poor immigrants: They can’t win without the votes of the Third World. The intentional transformation of America into some other country ought to be killing them at the polls, but it’s not, because Democrats have
hoodwinked Republicans into pushing for the exact same thing. How did Republicans end up on the wrong side of the question:
Should the Democrats be able to establish their political hegemony for all time?

Any party incapable of winning the vote of white men ought to hang its head in shame. Instead, Democrats denounce and abuse white people, and Republicans act embarrassed about having whites vote for them. Why are white votes bad? (To be sure, black Americans don’t like mass immigration, either, but Democrats don’t care what blacks think.)

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell needs to get business lobbyists in a car and drive them around with a gun to their heads for an hour, explaining:
We can give you regulatory reform, OSHA reform, tax relief, tort reform. But if we give you immigration, we won’t be in a position to give you anything else, ever again, and you’ll have to take your chances with Nancy Pelosi.
The Chamber of Commerce has got to learn: You can’t have it all.

Then, Republicans should ask Democrats: Why is it so vitally important to keep bringing in new workers to compete with low-skilled Americans and drive down their wages?

Americans love to mock the French for rolling over for Hitler, but at least they had Panzers rolling through Paris. America has chosen to do nothing as our country is taken away from us without a shot fired. The endless flow of needy immigrants is soaking up every last dollar of government aid, every low-wage job, every hour of assistance, every quantum of charitable giving. After all the country has been through only since 9/11—two wars, repeated terrorist attacks, the housing crash, widespread unemployment, and underemployment—America needs to worry about Americans. How much is the price of guilt for having a successful society before we’re entitled say to the poor of the world,
Enough! We gave at the office.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

L
EGIONS OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE READ THIS BOOK SHALL REMAIN NAMELESS, ON
account of the maniacal blacklisting in store for anyone with second thoughts about turning America into Mexico. But some in my crowd are either crazy enough, or love their country enough, to allow me to thank them publicly without even using aliases.

Ned Rice is, as ever, a joke-writing machine. I’d rush to finish chapters just to see what jokes he’d come up with—many for my own amusement, but a lot also made it into the book.

Same with Jim Hughes, who does not write professionally, but rather saves his best work for when he signs on to the computer late at night after a few cocktails. His lengthy late-night rants were so hilarious that I’ve made him publish some of them. (See, e.g., “Maybe the Obamacare Enrollment Figures Are on That Malaysian Airliner!,” Daily Caller, April 24, 2014.)

Trish Baker and Robert Caplain have been on this subject for years, sending me news items, in addition to religiously reading and editing every chapter. Melanie Graham, one of my Circle of Deciders, always e-mailed
back immediately and gave me a line that still makes me laugh. Merrill Kinstler, one of my regular talking partners for about fifteen years, let a few of my books slip by without comment. Not this one.

Noticeably, Ned, Jim, Trish, Robert, Melanie, and Merrill are all Californians, so they have a close-up view of what our new country is going to be like. In fact, nearly all my friends who were willing to be named are Californians. It’s remarkable how quickly people in a state that has been overwhelmed with illegal aliens are able to grasp the fine points of my thesis. If it’s not a hit in 2015, this book will be HUGE as soon as the other forty-nine states become California (without the great weather and gorgeous beaches). I’m sorry to be the one to inform you of this, but that will make all of you the Kardashians.

Others who have helped with this book, mostly by reading chapters and voting on titles, but in other ways, as well, are: Bill Armistead, Jon Caldara, Rodney Conover, Mallory and Thomas Danaher, David Friedman, James Fulford, Ron Gordon, Kevin Harrington, David Limbaugh, Jay Mann, Jim Moody, Dan Travers, Jon Tukel, Marshall Sella, Peter Thiel, Kelly Victory, and Younis Zubchevich. Also, thanks to Regnery for publishing this book and to my editors, Elizabeth Kantor and Marji Ross, for helping me cut 150 pages when it was approaching the length of
The Story of Civilization
by Will and Ariel Durant. Challenge any sentence in this book, and I’ve got fifty more examples waiting in the outtakes.

Finally, everyone mentioned here agrees with every single word in this book. Don’t let them tell you otherwise.