Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole (64 page)

69
.
    
Darren Samuelsohn, “Greens Move to Heal Immigration Reform Rift,” Politico, June 2, 2013,
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/immigration-reform-greens-environment-92099.html
.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: CARLOS SLIM: THE
NEW YORK TIMES
’ SUGAR DADDY

1
.
      
Editorial Board, “The Koch Party,”
New York Times
, January 25, 2014,
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/opinion/sunday/the-koch-party.html
.

2
.
      
Ralph Blumenthal, “New Strains and New Rules for Agents along Mexican Border,”
New York Times
, August 12, 2004,
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/12/us/new-strains-and-new-rules-for-agents-along-mexican-border.html
.

3
.
      
Editorial Board, “Mr. Obama, Go Big on Immigration,”
New York Times
, July 3, 2014,
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/04/opinion/mr-obama-gobig-on-immigration.html
.

4
.
      
See, e.g., Joe Hagan, “Bleeding ‘Times’ Blood,”
New York
, October 5, 2008,
http://nymag.com/news/media/51015/
; Douglas McCollam, “Sulzberger at the Barricades,”
Columbia Journalism Review
, July 15, 2008,
http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/sulzberger_at_the_barricades.php?page=all
; and Lawrence Wright, “Slim’s Time,”
New Yorker
, June 1, 2009,
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_wright?currentPage=al
.

5
.
      
See, e.g., McCollam, “Sulzberger at the Barricades.”

6
.
      
Wright, “Slim’s Time.”

7
.
      
Hagan, “Bleeding ‘Times’ Blood.”

8
.
      
Wright, “Slim’s Time.”

9
.
      
See, e.g., ibid.

10
.
    
Eduardo Porter, “Mexico’s Plutocracy Thrives on Robber-Baron Concessions,”
New York Times
, August 27, 2007,
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/27/opinion/27mon4.html?pagewanted=print
. (“In 1990, the government of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari sold his friend Mr. Slim the Mexican national phone company, Telmex, along with a de facto commitment to maintain its monopoly for years. Then it awarded Telmex the only nationwide cellphone license.”)

11
.
    
Slim’s Telmex had an earnings margin of 47 percent in 2008, nearly twice the 28 percent average profit for major telecommunications operators in the United States, Canada, the UK, France, Spain, and Sweden. Slim’s mobile service, Telcel, had an average profit margin of 64 percent, compared with an average of 37.6
percent in all other OECD countries. “The Telecommunication Sector in Mexico,” in
OECD Review of Telecommunication Policy and Regulation in Mexico
(OECD Publishing, 2012), 37,
http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/science-and-technology/oecd-review-of-telecommunication-policy-and-regulation-in-mexico/the-telecommunication-sector-in-mexico_9789264060111-3-en#page24
.

12
.
    
Porter, “Mexico’s Plutocracy.”

13
.
    
Wright, “Slim’s Time.”

14
.
    
Porter, “Mexico’s Plutocracy.”

15
.
    
Wright, “Slim’s Time.”

16
.
    
“The Telecommunication Sector in Mexico,” 18–20.

17
.
    
Ibid. (Mexico cell phone penetration: 78 percent, compared with 93 percent in Colombia, 97 percent in Ecuador, and 98 percent in Communist Venezuela).

18
.
    
Ibid., 33.

19
.
    
Wright, “Slim’s Time.”

20
.
    
“Planet Plutocrat,”
Economist
, March 15, 2014.

21
.
    
“The Telecommunication Sector in Mexico,” 33.

22
.
    
Joseph Galante, “CompUSA, Falling to Competition, to Shut Down after Holidays,” Bloomberg News, December 8, 2007,
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aomuLvfkNzTY&
.

23
.
    
Wright, “Slim’s Time.”

24
.
    
Ibid.

25
.
    
Wright, “Slim’s Time.” Such high interconnection rates are expressly outlawed in the United States in order to foster competition. See, e.g., MCI Telecommunications Corp v. Ohio Bell Telephone Company SBC 376 F.3d 539; 2004 FED App. 0232P (6th Cir.), July 20, 2004, available online at
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-6th-circuit/1296128.html#sthash.QK2eJZ4W.dpuf
. (“In order to promote competition in the telecommunications market, the [Telecommunications Act of 1996] requires incumbent providers to allow new market entrants, such as MCI in this case, to utilize the incumbent provider’s network and buy the incumbent provider’s telecommunication services for a fair price. See 47 U.S.C. §§ 251(a)(1) & (c). These arrangements were necessary to minimize the barriers to market entry erected during the period in which the incumbent provider functioned as a monopoly.”)

26
.
    
“The Telecommunication Sector in Mexico,” 33.

27
.
    
Ibid., 17–18.

28
.
    
According to the Pew Research Center, in 2012 there were 33.7 million Hispanics of Mexican origin in the United States. Of those, “half (51%) are in the U.S. illegally while about a third are legal permanent residents (32%) and 16% are naturalized U.S. citizens.” 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/
. But Pew uses the census’s undercount of illegal aliens, as we saw in chapter 2. According to Pew, “More than half (55%) of the 11.1 million immigrants who are in the country illegally are from Mexico.” So making that 55 percent of 30 million illegal aliens, rather than 55 percent of 11.1 million, adds another 10 million Mexican illegal immigrants to Pew’s estimate, bringing the total number of Mexicans in the United States to 43.7 million.

29
.
    
Congressional Budget Office, “Migrants’ Remittances and Related Economic Flows,” February 2011, p. 2,
http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/ftpdocs/120xx/doc12053/02-24-remittances_chartbook.pdf
. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), it’s $20 billion a year.

30
.
    
Ibid., 17 (relying on data from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank).

31
.
    
Steven Camarota, “Welfare Use by Immigrant Households with Children,” Center for Immigration Studies, April 2011,
http://cis.org/immigrant-welfare-use-2011
(analyzing the census’s 2009 and 2010 Current Population Survey questions about welfare use in immigrant-headed families, legal and illegal, with at least one child under the age of eighteen).

32
.
    
Congressional Budget Office, “Migrants’ Remittances,” 10.

33
.
    
In surveys, 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico say the money they send home is used exclusively for consumption; 96 percent say it is used for both consumption and savings. Ibid.

34
.
    
Patricia Laya, “Mexico’s Richest Man Urges Young U.S. Immigrants into Workforce,” Bloomberg News, August 13, 2014,
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-13/mexico-s-richest-man-urges-young-u-s-immigrants-into-workforce.html
.

35
.
    
Editorial Board, “Migrants and the Middlemen,”
New York Times
, July 9, 2014,
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/10/opinion/migrants-and-themiddlemen.html?_r=0
.

36
.
    
Editorial Board, “Migrants and the Middlemen.”

37
.
    
Editorial Board, “Mr. Obama, Go Big.”

38
.
    
Charles Lane, “A National Immigration Scandal,”
Washington Post
, July 9, 2014,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-lane-a-national-immigration-scandal/2014/07/09/26dd4384-077e-11e4-8a6a-19355 c7e870a_story.html
.

39
.
    
“Flaws in Immigration Laws,” editorial,
New York Times
, September 29, 1997,
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/29/opinion/flaws-in-immigration-laws.html
.

40
.
    
“Salvaging the I.N.S.,” editorial,
New York Times
, August 10, 1997,
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/10/opinion/salvaging-the-ins.html
. The
Times
also praised Clinton’s INS commissioner, saying the “border is tighter, and the I.N.S. is deporting record numbers of criminal aliens.” Sam Dillon, “U.S. Tests Border Plan in Event of Mexico Crisis,”
New York Times
, December 8, 1995,
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/08/us/us-tests-border-plan-in-event-of-mexico-crisis.html
.

41
.
    
Hal Salzman, Daniel Kuehn, and B. Lindsay Lowell, “Guestworkers in the High-Skill U.S. Labor Market,”
Economic Policy Institute
, April 24, 2013,
http://www.epi.org/publication/bp359-guestworkers-high-skill-labor-market-analysis/
.

42
.
    
Deborah Sontag, “Increasingly, 2-Career Family Means Illegal Immigrant Help,”
New York Times
, January 24, 1993,
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/24/nyregion/increasingly-2-career-family-means-illegal-immigrant-help.html
.

43
.
    
Ibid.

44
.
    
Stuart Taylor, “Inside the Whirlwind: How Zoë Baird Was Monstrously Caricatured for the Smallest of Sins, Pounded by the Press and Popular Righteousness, and Crucified by Prejudice and Hypocrisy,”
American Lawyer
, March 1993.

45
.
    
Sontag, “Increasingly, 2-Career Family.”

46
.
    
Taylor, “Inside the Whirlwind.”

47
.
    
Richard Berke, “Judge Withdraws from Clinton List for Justice Post,”
New York Times
, February 6, 1993,
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/06/us/judge-withdraws-from-clinton-list-for-justice-post.html
.

48
.
    
“The
News & Record
’s Eighth Annual Roundup of the Idiotic, the Ironic and the Just Plain Weird,”
News & Record
(Greensboro, NC), December 31, 2001.

49
.
    
“Poverty Overview: Context,” World Bank, April 7, 2014,
http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/overview
.

SPOT THE IMMIGRANT! CASE NO. 4: INDIAN SEX SLAVES IN BERKELEY

1
.
      
See Anita Chabria, “His Own Private Berkeley,”
Los Angeles Times
, November 25, 2001,
http://articles.latimes.com/2001/nov/25/magazine/tm-7947
; Nirshan Perera, “Eyewitness in Reddy Case Foiled ‘Family Affair,’”
India Abroad
(NY), August 24, 2001; and Diana Russell and Marcia Poole, “The Lakireddy Bali Reddy Case,” Women against Sexual Slavery, 2003,
http://www.wassusa.com
.

2
.
      
Chabria, “His Own Private Berkeley”; Perera, “Eyewitness in Reddy Case.”

3
.
      
See Chabria, “His Own Private Berkeley”; Lisa Fernandez, “Judge Urged to Be Tough: Petitioners Ask Maximum Penalty for Landlord in Sex Slave Case,”
San Jose (CA) Mercury News
, June 8, 2001; Fernandez, “8-Year Prison Term Set: Berkeley Entrepreneur Sentenced for Importing Minors for Sex,”
San Jose (CA) Mercury News
, June 20, 2001; Perera, “Eyewitness in Reddy Case”; and Russell and Poole, “The Lakireddy Bali Reddy Case.”

4
.
      
Fernandez, “8-Year Prison Term.”

5
.
      
Kayitha Sreeharsha, “The Bystander Problem,”
India Currents
, May 13, 2013,
https://www.indiacurrents.com/articles/2013/05/13/bystander-problem
.

6
.
      
Ibid.

7
.
      
Eric Konigsberg, “Couple’s Downfall Is Culminating in Sentencing in Long Island Slavery Case,”
New York Times
, June 23, 2008,
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/nyregion/23slave.html
.

8
.
      
The
Berkeley High Jacket
’s story ran on December 10, 1999. See, e.g., Alyse Nelson,
Vital Voices: The Power of Women Leading Change around the World
(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2012), 216.

9
.
      
Leslie Wayne, “Workers, and Bosses, in a Visa Maze,”
New York Times
, April 29, 2001,
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/29/business/workers-and-bosses-in-a-visa-maze.html
(3,464 words). “Fraud in obtaining visas has also been found, including one tragic case in Berkeley, Calif., in which three Indian girls were brought in on H-1B visas for sexual purposes. The case came to light in November 1999 after one of the three, a 17-year-old pregnant girl, died of carbon monoxide poisoning in the rented apartment the girls shared. Last month, the landlord, Lakireddy Reddy, 63, a native of India worth more than $50 million, pleaded guilty in federal court in Oakland, as did two of his relatives. His two sons have also been charged in the case, in which the group is accused of fraudulently bringing Indian nationals to the United States for cheap labor and sex.”