Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole (52 page)

9
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Anna Brown and Eileen Patten, “Hispanics of Mexican Origin in the United States,” Pew Research Center Hispanic Trends Project, 2011,
http://www.pewhispanic.org/2013/06/19/hispanics-of-mexican-origin-in-the-united-states-2011/
. (“An estimated 33.5 million Hispanics of Mexican origin resided in the United States in 2011, according to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.”)

10
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“Facts for Features: Hispanic Heritage Month 2014: Sept. 15–Oct. 15,” U.S. Census Bureau, September 8, 2014,
http://www.census.gov/newsroom/facts-for-features/2014/cb14-ff22.html
.

11
.
    
See generally “Hispanic Americans by the Numbers
,
2012,” U.S. Census Bureau, 2012,
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/hhmcensus1.html#ixzz3AlIoS52Z
; John P. Tuman, David F. Damore, and Maria José Flor Ágreda, “Immigration and the Contours of Nevada’s Latino Population,” Brookings Mountain West, June 2013,
http://www.unlv.edu/sites/default/files/24/BrookingsReport-ImmigrationAndContours.pdf
.

12
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“State and County QuickFacts,” U.S. Census Bureau, accessed 2014,
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/35000.html
; and Mark Hugo Lopez, “In 2014, Latinos Will Surpass Whites as Largest Racial/Ethnic Group in California,” Pew Research Center, January 24, 2014,
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/01/24/in-2014-latinos-will-surpass-whites-as-largest-racialethnic-group-in-california/
.

13
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U.S. Census Bureau, “Facts for Features.”

14
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“Table 19: California—Race and Hispanic Origin: 1850 to 1990,” U.S. Census Bureau,
http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0056/tab19.pdf
.

15
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Lopez, “In 2014, Latinos Will Surpass Whites.”

16
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In the last a decade, the white population of California has plummeted from 47 percent to 39 percent, while the Hispanic population has grown from 32 percent to 39 percent. Today, Hispanics make up 53.25 percent of the students in all California schools. All “minorities”—i.e., nonwhites—constitute 75 percent of the school population. “Fingertip Facts on Education in California—
CalEdFacts
,” California Department of Education, 2013,
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sd/cb/ceffingertipfacts.asp
.

17
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“Rise in Public Benefits to Children of Illegal Immigrants in L.A. County Has Supervisor ‘Very Concerned,’”
Los Angeles Times
, September 3, 2010,
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/09/rise-in-public-benefits-to-children-of-illegal-immigrants-in-los-angeles-county-concerns-supervisor-michael-antonovich.html
.

18
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Don E. Albrecht, “State of Nevada,” Western Rural Development Center, 2008,
http://wrdc.usu.edu/files/uploads/Regional%20Data/NV/Nevada_WEB.pdf
.

19
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Tuman, Damore, and Flor Ágreda, “Immigration and the Contours of Nevada’s Latino Population.”

20
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Elizabeth M. Grieco, Edward Trevelyan, et al., “The Size, Place of Birth, and Geographic Distribution of the Foreign-Born Population in the United States: 1960 to 2010,” U.S. Census Bureau, October 2012, Table 1 and p. 8,
http://www.census.gov/population/foreign/files/WorkingPaper96.pdf
.

21
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Ibid., Table 1 and p. 8.

22
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Joseph Russell and Jeanne Batalov, “European Immigrants in the United States,” Migration Policy Institute, July 26, 2012,
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/european-immigrants-united-states
; Grieco, Trevelyan, et al., “The Size, Place of Birth, and Geographic Distribution,” Table 1 and p. 8.

23
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Ana Gonzalez-Barrera and Mark Hugo Lopez, “A Demographic Portrait of Mexican-Origin Hispanics in the United States,” Pew Research Center Hispanic Trends Project, May 1, 2013,
http://www.pewhispanic.org/2013/05/01/a-demographic-portrait-of-mexican-origin-hispanics-in-the-united-states/
.

24
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Based on a 5 percent sample, the Census Bureau estimated that there were about 1.9 million Spanish-speaking white people in the United States in 1940. “United States—Race and Hispanic Origin: 1790 to 1990,” U.S. Census Bureau, Table 1,
http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0056/tab01.pf
.

25
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Grieco, Trevelyan, et al., “The Size, Place of Birth, and Geographic Distribution,” 8.

26
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Jeffrey Passel and D’Vera Cohn, “Unauthorized Immigrant Population: National and State Trends, 2010,” Pew Research Center Hispanic Trends Project, February 1, 2011,
http://www.pewhispanic.org/files/reports/133.pdf
.

27
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Michael Hoefer, Nancy Rytina, and Bryan C. Baker, “Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population Residing in the United States: January 2008,” Department of Homeland Security, February 2009,
http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/publications/ois_ill_pe_2008.pdf
.

28
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See, e.g., Roger Lowenstein, “The Immigration Equation,”
New York Times Magazine
, July 9, 2006,
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/magazine/09IMM.html
. (“The latest estimate is that the United States has 11.5 million undocumented foreigners, and it’s those immigrants—the illegal ones—who have galvanized Congress.”)

29
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Robert Justich and Betty Ng, “The Underground Labor Force Is Rising to the Surface,” Bear Stearns Asset Management, January 3, 2005,
http://www.steinreport.com/BearStearnsStudy.pdf
.

30
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Carl Bialik, “In Counting Illegal Immigrants, Certain Assumptions Apply,”
Wall Street Journal
, May 7, 2010,
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704370704575228432695989918
.

31
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Ibid.

32
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Margolis found a similarly massive undercount of Brazilians living in Boston, by comparing census figures with the number counted by the Boston Archdiocese and the Brazilian consulate. Justich and Ng, “The Underground Labor Force.”

33
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Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, “Illegal Aliens: Who Left the Door Open?,”
Time
, March 30, 2006,
http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,995145,00.html
.

34
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Edward Colby, “Dobbs Pins Down Illegal Immigrants, Give or Take 9 Million,”
Columbia Journalism Review
, March 31, 2006,
http://www.cjr.org/politics/dobbs_pins_down_illegal_immigr.php?page=all#sthash.IkG9Z6cD.dpuf
.

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See Passel and Cohn, “Unauthorized Immigrant Population”; and Hoefer, Rytina, and Baker, “Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population Residing in the United States,” 2.

36
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“Three Decades of Mass Immigration: The Legacy of the 1965 Immigration Act,” Center for Immigration Studies, September 1995,
http://cis.org/1965ImmigrationAct-MassImmigration
, citing
Hearings before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization of the Committee on the Judiciary
, 89th Cong. 1–3 (1965).

37
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Ibid., citing
Washington Post
, October 4, 1965, p. 16.

38
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Ibid., citing
Hearings before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization of the Committee on the Judiciary
, 89th Cong. 71, 119 (1965).

39
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Ibid., citing U.S. Congress, House, 1964 hearings, 418.

40
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Ibid., citing
Hearings before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization of the Committee on the Judiciary
, 89th Cong. 65 (1965).

41
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Ibid., citing
Congressional Record
, August 25, 1965, p. 21812.

42
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“Three Decades of Mass Immigration.”

43
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William Branigin, “Immigrants Shunning Idea of Assimilation,”
Washington Post
, May 25, 1998,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/meltingpot/melt0525a.htm
.

44
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“Three Decades of Mass Immigration.”

45
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Nancy Foner,
From Ellis Island to JFK: New York’s Two Great Waves of Immigration
(New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2000), finding that employers were more likely to hire immigrants over American blacks and Hispanics, expecting them to be more docile and hardworking, cited in Kimberly A. Huisman, “Why Maine? Secondary Migration Decisions Of Somali Refugees,”
Ìrìnkèrindò: A Journal of African Migration
, no. 5 (December 2011), 81, 98,
http://www.africamigration.com/Issue%205/Articles/PDF/Kimberly-Huisman_Why-Maine.pdf
.

CHAPTER SIX: IMMIGRATION AS “MYSTERY BARGAIN BIN”

1
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See, e.g., Sebastian Rotella, “The American behind India’s 9/11—and How U.S. Botched Chances to Stop Him,” ProPublica, January 24, 2013,
http://www.propublica.org/article/david-headley-homegrown-terrorist#chapter-3
.

2
.
      
William Booth, “One Nation, Indivisible: Is It History?,”
Washington Post
, February 22, 1998,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/meltingpot/melt0222.htm
.

3
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Steven A. Camarota, “Immigrants in the United States: A Profile of America’s Foreign-Born Population,” Center for Immigration Studies, Table 7, August 2012,
http://www.cis.org/sites/cis.org/files/articles/2012/immigrants-in-the-united-states-2012.pdf
.

4
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Then–UN Representative Madeleine K. Albright quoted in John Bolton, “Wrong Turn in Somalia,”
Foreign Affairs
73, no. 1, February 1994,
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/49438/john-r-bolton/wrong-turn-in-somalia
.

5
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Leslie Brooks Suzukamo, “Campaign Aims to Raise Awareness about Immigrants,”
St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press
, 1999.

6
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Minnesota News in Brief at 8:58 p.m. CST, the Associated Press State and Local Wire, November 9, 2010.

7
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“African-Born Population in U.S. Roughly Doubled Every Decade since 1970,” Census Bureau Reports, U.S. Census Bureau, October 1, 2014,
http://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2014/cb14-184.html
.

8
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Hearing: Beyond the Streets: America’s Evolving Gang Threat, House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
, 112th Cong. (July 25, 2012) (testimony of Richard W. Stanek, sheriff of Hennepin County, Minnesota), available at
http://judiciary.house.gov/_files/hearings/Hearings%202012/Stanek%2007252012.pdf
. See also Dan Van Lehman and Omar Eno, “The Somali Bantu: Their History and Culture,” Center for Applied Linguistics, February 2003, available at
http://www.hartfordinfo.org/issues/wsd/immigrants/somali_bantu.pdf
, estimating that forty thousand Somalis lived in Minnesota in 2003. Well over ten thousand have immigrated to Minnesota since then. See, e.g., Martha H. Bigelow,
Mogadishu on the Mississippi: Language, Racialized Identity, and Education
(Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). See also Karla Hult, “Somali Minnesotans, through the Eyes of Three Generations,” KARE-11, May 3, 2013,
http://archive.kare11.com/rss/article/1024223/14/somali-minnesotans-through-the-eyes-of-three-generations
; and “Total Ancestry Reported: Minnesota,” 2008–2012 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, U.S. Census Bureau,
http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=bkmk
. (Within the category of “Subsaharan African,” thirty-three thousand Minnesotans identify as “Somalian” and thirty-one
thousand identify as “African.” It is believed that these figures undercount Somalians for a variety of reasons, such as overcrowding in rental units.)

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See, e.g., “Feds: Twin Cities Human Traffickers Enslaved Girls Younger Than 13 for a Decade,”
St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press
, November 7, 2010,
http://www.twincities.com/ci_16555475
(“Charges in the 24-count indictment include sex trafficking of juveniles and conspiring to sex-traffic juveniles, obstruction of justice, perjury, auto theft and credit card fraud.”); Laura Yuen, “3 Guilty in Somali Gang Sex Trafficking Case,” Minnesota Public Radio News, May 4, 2012,
http://www.mprnews.org/story/2012/05/04/sex-trafficking
; and
Hearing: Beyond the Streets
.

10
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See Tino Sanandaji, “Don’t Believe the Hype: Somali Immigration to Minnesota Is a Complete Failure,”
Super-Economy
(blog), September 4, 2010,
http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/09/dont-believe-hype-somali-immigration-to.html
, citing the 2008 U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey; and Elizabeth Dunbar, “Comparing the Somali Experience in Minnesota to Other Immigrant Groups,” Minnesota Public Radio News, January 22, 2010,
http://www.mprnews.org/story/2010/01/25/comparing-the-somali-experience-in-minnesota-to-other-immigrant-groups-of-immigrants-
.