Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole (18 page)

Our official policy is to turn away astrophysicists in order to make room for illiterate Afghan peasants who will drop out of high school to man coffee carts until deciding to engage in jihad against us. That was Immigration Success Story Najibullah Zazi, who pleaded guilty in a plot to bomb the New York City subway in 2010. Zazi had been born into a tribe in eastern Afghanistan and came to America in his teens. He dropped out of high school and had an arranged marriage to his cousin in Pakistan. His ticket to entry was his father—whose ticket was, in turn, a brother living in Queens. Zazi’s own uncle described him to the
New York Times
as “a dumb kid, believe me.”
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Our immigration officials said,
WELCOME, ZAZI! . . . Sorry, Scottish scientists—no room for you.
Instead of immigrants who could help America, we have to take entire villages of illiterates from Afghanistan, thanks to Teddy Kennedy’s 1965 immigration act.

One of Zazi’s coconspirators, Zarein Ahmedzay, arrived from Afghanistan willing to do a job no American would ever consider doing: drive a cab. A third accomplice, Adis Medunjanin, was born in Bosnia, prompting the
New York Times
to begin an article on his convictions: “An American citizen was convicted of a host of terrorism charges on Tuesday . . .”
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AS AMERICAN AS APPLE PIE

News accounts would have us believe that the one hundred thousand Somalis collecting welfare in Minnesota while resting up for the next jihad are just as Minnesotan as the characters in
Fargo
. A close examination of the names of “homegrown Americans” who have joined ISIS and other terrorist groups suggests otherwise. In 2008, the
New York Times
announced “the first known American suicide bomber.”
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Go USA! It was
Shirwa Ahmed, Somali immigrant to Minnesota. Who could have guessed “Shirwa Ahmed” would be America’s first suicide bomber? My money had been on a guy named “Jim Peterson.” In addition to the first suicide bomber, other “Americans from Minnesota” participating in terrorism included Mahamud Said Omar, Cabdulaahi Ahmed Faarax, Abdiweli Yassin Isse, Ahmed Ali Omar, Khalid Mohamud Abshir, Zakaria Maruf, Mohamed Abdullahi Hassan, and Mustafa Ali Salat.
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Pakistani terrorist Daood Sayed Gilani conspired with the Pakistani military to carry out four days of terrorist attacks on hotels, movie theaters, and hospitals in Mumbai in 2008. But as far as the media were concerned, he was John Wayne. The
New York Times
called him “David Coleman Headley,” a “United States citizen who lived in Pakistan but recently was mainly a resident of Chicago.”
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What constitutes “mainly”?

Although born in America, Gilani was brought up in Pakistan, raised by his Pakistani Muslim father in a strict Muslim culture from infancy until age seventeen. At seventeen, Gilani moved to the United States to live with his mother in Philadelphia and adopted the name “David Coleman Headley.” He failed out of a community college, became a heroin addict, and was soon busted for importing heroin from Pakistan. In 1999, Gilani was released from prison to go back to Pakistan for an arranged marriage. He moved that wife—one of two—to live in Chicago.
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Why, he seems to have stepped right out of a Norman Rockwell painting!

A lengthy
Times
profile of Daood laid it on thick about his American roots: “Mr. Headley felt pulled between two cultures and ultimately gravitated toward an extremist Islamic one.”
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It might help readers understand the strange attraction of Islamic extremism to an “American citizen” if they were told that Mr. Headley’s real name is “Daood Sayed Gilani,” that he was raised in a backward Muslim culture in Pakistan, and that his American citizenship was only that of an anchor baby. The
Times
fooled Senator Bob Casey, then the Democratic chairman of the Foreign Relations
Subcommittee on South and Central Asia, who said of Gilani: “It’s really disturbing—Americans becoming radicalized.”
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Of more than fifty articles mentioning Gilani in the
New York Times
, only five so much as mentioned his real name—dismissing it as his “birth name”
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or “the Urdu [name] he was given at birth.”
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Similarly, the Associated Press called him: “David C. Headley, an American formerly named Daood Sayed Gilani.”
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It is not the
Times
’ consistent practice to use aliases acquired in adulthood. In the rare case when an actual American becomes a Muslim terrorist—usually after meeting one of our Muslim immigrants making America more vibrant—the media exclusively use the terrorist’s birth name. Michael Finton abandoned that name when he became a Muslim and began calling himself “Talib Islam.” After Finton attempted to bomb a federal building in Chicago, the
Times
used his “birth name”—the opposite of its practice with Daood. The
Times
even managed to work in a reference to Finton’s “red hair” by the second paragraph.
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It was the same with Suleyman al-Faris, whom absolutely every newspaper refers to exclusively by his birth name: John Walker Lindh.

Dropping subtlety, about a year after the explosion of articles on “American citizen” “David Coleman Headley,” the
Times
ran an article titled “The Jihadist Next Door.” The article noted with alarm that “[i]n the last year, at least two dozen men in the United States have been charged with terrorism-related offenses,” leaving intelligence operatives “scurrying for answers.”
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The “Americans” who left government officials “scurrying for answers,” were:

          
Najibullah Zazi, Afghan

          
Daood Sayed Gilani, Pakistani

          
Umer Farooq, Pakistani

          
Waqar Khan, Pakistani

          
Ramy Zamzam, Egyptian

          
Ahmed Abdullah Minni, Eritrean

          
Aman Hassan Yemer, Ethiopian

It makes no sense—it’s the freckle-faced boy next door!

The media’s weird obsession with billing immigrant terrorists as apple-pie Americans leads to comical results, such as the panelists on MSNBC’s
The Cycle
puzzling over how Aafia Siddiqui, a “U.S.-trained scientist” could have become radicalized.
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Here’s a tip for MSNBC: When you can’t pronounce the terrorist’s name, the rest of America isn’t sitting in slack-jawed amazement. Siddiqui wasn’t an American by any definition. She wasn’t even an anchor baby. Rather, Siddiqui was born and raised in Pakistan and came to the United States as an adult via our seditious universities. After an arranged marriage over the phone with another Pakistani, who—luckily for America!—joined her here, she divorced and married the nephew of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Who could have seen Siddiqui’s radicalism coming?

Not only have our post-1965 immigration policies increased America’s welfare, criminal, and terrorism caseloads, but now all Americans are being asked to give up their civil liberties to fulfill Teddy Kennedy’s dream of bringing the entire Third World to live here in America. When Rand Paul carries on for thirteen hours about Obama using a drone to kill “American citizen” Anwar al-Awlaki, the term “American citizen” has lost its essential meaning. The National Security Act of 1947, creating the CIA, expressly prohibited the agency from engaging in domestic operations. But now we have to spy on “Americans” because of all the al-Awlakis, Tsarnaevs, and Zazis. We have created two huge problems where none existed before—domestic terrorism and government spying—all so the Democrats can win elections and Mark Zuckerberg can underpay his employees.

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IMMIGRANTS AND CRIME: WHY DO YOU ASK?

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OU WILL SPEND MORE TIME TRYING TO OBTAIN BASIC CRIME STATISTICS ABOUT
immigrants in America than trying to sign up for Obamacare. The facts aren’t there. Those of us who want to know if a murderer is an immigrant are treated as if we’re trying to keep blacks out of the country club.
What difference does it make?

Here are some ways it might make a difference: Knowing how many criminals are immigrants might affect our opinion of our current immigration policies. It would help us evaluate Marco Rubio’s proposal to legalize 20–30 million illegal immigrants, en masse. It could tell us how much money an immigration moratorium would save the taxpayers by reducing the number of police, missing persons operators, hospital emergency room doctors, surgeons, prosecutors, judges, court clerks, prison guards, and rape counselors made necessary by criminal aliens. It would be extremely relevant to the debate about whether to build a fence on our southern border.

SO TELL US!

The government doesn’t collect data about immigrant crime, and the media wouldn’t report it, anyway. This allows liberals to sneer at anyone else’s estimate of the number of criminal immigrants: “We found no such data. This statement is both incorrect and ridiculous. Pants on Fire! The statement is not accurate and makes a ridiculous claim.” That quote comes from PolitiFact’s evaluation of Texas Governor Rick Perry’s statement: “I think [there were] over 3,000 homicides by illegal aliens over the course of the last six years.”
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Asked by PolitiFact to supply a source, Perry’s spokesman cited the Texas Department of Public Safety’s webpage, which states: “From October 2008 through July 1, 2014, Texas has identified a total of 203,685 unique criminal alien defendants booked into Texas county jails. Over their criminal careers, these defendants are responsible for at least 642,564 individual criminal charges mostly consisting of Class B misdemeanors or higher, including 3,070 homicides and 7,964 sexual assaults. . . .”

That looks like “over 3,000 homicides” to me.
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But PolitiFact turned to its own expert, Northeastern University professor Ramiro Martinez Jr., who said that if Perry were correct, then illegal immigrants would have committed 46 percent of all murders in Texas—and that “boggles the mind.” Strictly speaking, boggling the mind of a professor is not data. Martinez asked how so many illegal immigrants could be committing murder and “nobody noticed.”
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It might be easier to “notice” if we weren’t prohibited from noticing.

Somebody’s
noticing the immigrant crime wave: Google
illegal alien crime
and you’ll get more than 2 million hits. Google
immigrant crime
and you’ll get 40 million. Only our government and media refuse to notice. Then they turn around and denounce anyone else’s estimate, saying:
You don’t know that.

So tell us! We “don’t know that” only because the people in a position to know have decided to keep it secret.

THE FACTS ABOUT CRIMINAL ALIENS—WITH SEVENTEEN CAVEATS

Every time you think the government has finally produced a real number of immigrants convicted of crimes in America, there’s a catch. Legal immigrants will be excluded, convicted criminals whose country of birth is unknown are left out, Hispanic criminals will be classified as “white”
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—but Hispanic valedictorians are celebrated as another illegal immigrant “success story!” In 1991, the Department of Justice produced a detailed report on the racial characteristics of inmates in both state and federal prisons from 1926 to 1986. Hallelujah! Facts! But then you notice a tiny asterisk: Mexicans are counted as “white” every year except 1926.
Thanks, government!

I would prefer to have the actual numbers of legal and illegal aliens arrested and convicted of crimes. I would like that information much more than I wanted to know how many residents of American Samoa have no battery-powered radios in their homes. Unfortunately, the government won’t tell us how many immigrants commit crimes—much less what their crimes were. It will, however, give us an
exact
count of Samoans without battery-powered radios (2,651 in 2010).
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The most extensive information on criminal aliens collected by the federal government is a bare-minimum estimate of the number of immigrants in American prisons and jails. This is not information the government automatically collects: It had to be expressly requested by Congress. In 2011, the Government Accountability Office reported that America was incarcerating at least—the absolute minimum estimate—351,000 criminal aliens: 55,000 immigrants in federal prison and 296,000 illegal aliens in state and local facilities.
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In the understatement of the century, the GAO admitted that its figures included only “a portion of the total population of criminal aliens who may be incarcerated at the state and local levels. . . .”
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The GAO’s estimate of 351,000 incarcerated aliens
excludes
:

       
1.
   
All legal immigrants in state or local prisons;

       
2.
   
Convicted illegal aliens for whom the states did not submit reimbursement requests to the federal government;
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3.
   
Prisoners whose country of birth could not be determined;
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4.
   
Immigrants who have been naturalized;

       
5.
   
Children born to illegal aliens on U.S. soil;