¡Adios, America!

  16.See ibid.

  17.Ibid.

  18.See, e.g., Esther Cepeda, “Latino Republicans Get No Respect,” Seattle Times, December 18, 2010, http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/latino-republicans-get-no-respect/?syndication=rss. (“Traitor. Sellout. Lino [Latino in name only]. These are some of the epithets Latino Republicans are called by fellow Hispanics who can’t imagine why any self-respecting descendant of Latin American immigrants would ever carry water for the Republican Party.”)

  19.Ruy Teixeira, “The Emerging Democratic Majority Turns 10,” Atlantic, November 10, 2012, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/the-emerging-democratic-majority-turns-10/265005/.

  20.Jesse Mills, “Somali Social Justice Struggle in the U.S.: A Historical Context,” Race, Gender, and Class 19, no. 3 (2012), 52–74.

  21.Pew categorized conservatives into two groups, “Business Conservatives” and “Steadfast Conservatives,” who were, respectively 81 percent and 72 percent “proud to be American.” Beyond Red vs. Blue: The Political Typology, Section 9: Patriotism, Personal Traits, Lifestyles, and Demographics, Pew Center for the People and the Press, June 26, 2014, http://www.people-press.org/2014/06/26/section-9-patriotism-personal-traits-lifestyles-and-demographics/.

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

  23.Cheryl K. Chumley, “Rep. Gutierrez: Obama Assured Me He’ll ‘Stop the Deportation of Our People,’” Washington Times, July 21, 2014, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/21/luis-gutierrez-obama-assured-me-hell-stop-deportat/.

  24.Arian Campo-Flores, “Pushing Obama on Immigration Reform,” Newsweek, November 29, 2010, http://www.newsweek.com/pushing-obama-immigration-reform-70093.

  25.Among many other immigration facts that “no one knows” is this one: Exactly how many of the approximately 125,000 Mariel boatlift “refugees” have been convicted of crimes in America? The U.S. Coast Guard, which oversaw the transfer, estimated about ten thousand of them had been convicted of crimes by 2005. See Dan Horn, “Refugee Repaid Kindness with Crime,” Cincinnati (OH) Enquirer, May 16, 2005.

  26.See, e.g., “Letter to IRS Commissioner Mark W. Everson Re: Potential IRS Actions on the Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN),” October 22, 2003, http://www.aila.org/content/default.aspx?docid=9536. This special pleading on behalf of illegal alien welfare recipients was signed by the following:

  David Marzahl

  Salvador Gonzalez

  Center for Economic Progress

  Janell Duncan

  Consumers Union

  Michele Waslin

  Brenda Muniz

  National Council of La Raza

  Jean Ann Fox

  Consumer Federation of America

  Chi Chi Wu

  National Consumer Law Center

  Rebecca Smith

  National Employment Law Project

  Josh Bernstein

  Joan Friedland

  Marielena Hincapie

  National Immigration Law Center

  27.“An Image Problem,” Washington Times, April 3, 2006, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/apr/3/20060403-091645-7346r/.

  28.Rove was quoted on Lou Dobbs Tonight, CNN, February 9, 2007.

  29.“Young Voters Supported Obama Less, but May Have Mattered More,” Pew Research Center, November 26, 2012, http://www.people-press.org/2012/11/26/young-voters-supported-obama-less-but-may-have-mattered-more/.

  30.What Lenin actually said was: “[C]apitalists . . . will toil to prepare their own suicide.” William Safire, “On Language: Useful Idiots of the West,” New York Times, April 12, 1987, http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/12/magazine/on-language.html.

  31.In 2012, Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountains’ gross revenue was $12,915,054; $10,812,318 came from government contracts. Ann Corcoran, “Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountains Largely Funded by Government Contracts,” Refugee Resettlement Watch, October 29, 2014, https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2014/10/29/lutheran-family-services-rocky-mountains-largely-funded-by-government-contracts/.

  32.Louis D. Brandeis, “True Americanism,” speech, 1915, text available at http://www.zionism-israel.com/hdoc/Brandeis_True_Americanism.htm.

  33.Ibid.

  34.Patrick Tierney, The Highest Altar: The Story of Human Sacrifice (New York: Viking Adult, 1989), 183–85.

  35.Associated Press, “Court: School Ban of US Flag Shirts Allowed,” Daily Mail (UK), February 28, 2014, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-2569975/Court-School-ban-US-flag-shirts-allowed.html.

  36.Martha Farnsworth Riche, “We’re All Minorities Now,” American Demographics, October 1991.

  37.Al Bravo, “Official English Groups Opposing Spanish Citizenship Ceremony,” Associated Press, June 22, 1993, http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1993/Official-English-Groups-Opposing-Spanish-Citizenship-Ceremony/id-7cd6506c6cd5095d966c72c1076f0c86.

  38.Hyon B. Shin with Rosalind Bruno, “Language Use and English-Speaking Ability: 2000,” U.S. Census Brief, U.S. Census Bureau, October 2003, http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/c2kbr-29.pdf.

  39.Camille Ryan, “Language Use in the United States: 2011,” U.S. Census Bureau, Table 2, August 2013, http://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acs-22.pdf.

  40.Margaret Talbot, “Baghdad on the Plains,” New Republic, August 11, 1997.

  CHAPTER THREE: AMERICA TO THE MEDIA: WHATEVER YOU WANT, JUST DON’T CALL US RACISTS

  1.Rand Paul, “From Illegals to Taxpayers,” Washington Times, February 11, 2013, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/feb/11/from-illegals-to-taxpayers/.

  2.Paul Colford, “‘Illegal Immigrant’ No More,” Definitive Source (Associated Press blog), April 2, 2013, http://blog.ap.org/2013/04/02/illegal-immigrant-no-more/.

  3.Julie Turkewitz, “In Colorado, Calls to Change a Restaurant’s Name from ‘Illegal Pete’s,’” New York Times, November 16, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/us/in-colorado-calls-to-change-a-restaurants-name-from-illegal-petes.html?action=click&contentCollection=U.S.&region=Footer&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=article.

  4.“California Newspaper Office Vandalized over Use of ‘Illegal’ Immigrant Label,” FoxNews.com, January 9, 2015, http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/01/09/california-newspaper-office-vandalized-over-use-illegal-immigrant-label/.

  5.Jennifer Medina, “McCarthy’s Role Is Debated in His Land of Immigrants,” New York Times, June 23, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/23/us/mccarthys-role-is-debated-in-his-land-of-immigrants.html.

  6.Ibid.

  7.“Hypocrisy: Harry Reid Said in 1993 What Republicans Say Now about Illegal Immigrants,” PopModal Videos, http://www.popmodal.com/video/20143/HYPOCRISY—Harry-Reid-said-in-1993-what-Republicans-say-now-about-Illegal-Immigrants.

  8.“Press Release: Reid Introduces Bill to Overhaul Immigration Laws; Slashes Immigrant Influx by More Than 50 Percent,” PR Newswire, August 5, 1993.

  9.Oforji v. Ashcroft, 354 F.3d 609 (7th Cir. 2003) (Posner concurring).

  10.Justice Hugo Black wrote:

  [T]he chief interest of the people in giving permanence and security to citizenship in the Fourteenth Amendment was the desire to protect Negroes. The Dred Scott decision had shortly before greatly disturbed many people about the status of Negro citizenship. [Senators] expressed fears that the citizenship so recently conferred on Negroes by the Civil Rights Act could be just as easily taken away from them by subsequent Congresses, and it was to provide an insuperable obstacle against every governmental effort to strip Negroes of their newly acquired citizenship that the first clause was added to the Fourteenth Amendment. (Afroyim v. Rusk, 387 U.S. 253 [1967] [citations omitted])

  Although he dissented from the court’s opinion in that case, Justice John Marshall Harlan agreed on the purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment:

  Its sponsors evidently shared the fears of Senators Stewart and Wade that, unless citizenship were defined, freedm
en might, under the reasoning of the Dred Scott decision, be excluded by the courts from the scope of the Amendment. It was agreed that, since the “courts have stumbled on the subject,” it would be prudent to remove the “doubt thrown over” it. The clause would essentially overrule Dred Scott and place beyond question the freedmen’s right of citizenship because of birth. It was suggested, moreover, that it would, by creating a basis for federal citizenship which was indisputably independent of state citizenship, preclude any effort by state legislatures to circumvent the Amendment by denying freedmen state citizenship. (Afroyim v. Rusk, 387 U.S. 253 [1967] [Harlan dissenting] [citations omitted])

  11.The “better view,” according to the Yale Law Journal, was that of Chief Justice Melville Fuller, who explained the idiocy of relying on feudal laws to determine American citizenship in a dissent: “Manifestly, when the sovereignty of the Crown was thrown off and an independent government established, every rule of the common law and every statute of England obtaining in the Colonies in derogation of the principles on which the new government was founded was abrogated.” “Jetsam and Flotsam: Citizenship of Chinaman Born in the United States,” Yale Law Journal, June 16, 1898.

  12.Madeleine Pelner Cosman, “Illegal Aliens and American Medicine,” Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons 10, no. 1 (Spring 2005), 6, http://www.jpands.org/vol10no1/cosman.pdf.

  13.Ibid., 7; and Eduardo Porter, “Tighter Border Yields Odd Result: More Illegals Stay,” Wall Street Journal, October 10, 2003, http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB106574684985644800 (also discussing the Silverio extended family’s reliance on government support and anchor baby scams).

  14.Cosman, “Illegal Aliens and American Medicine”; see also Porter, “Tighter Border.”

  15.U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898) (Fuller dissenting).

  16.Dual Citizenship, Birthright Citizenship, and the Meaning of Sovereignty: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims, 109th Cong. (2005) (testimony of Stanley A. Renshon).

  17.Nasser al-Awlaki, “The Drone That Killed My Grandson,” New York Times, July 17, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/18/opinion/the-drone-that-killed-my-grandson.html.

  18.Nexis search in English language news, previous two years, for “immigration and (majority or Americans) w/s (support! or agree or want) w/s pathway to citizenship” on November 21, 2014: 475 documents.

  19.Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace, host, April 14, 2013.

  20.NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey November 2014, question 24, http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/WSJNBCpoll11192014.pdf. (The last of three polls dropped only the “who have jobs” part of the question.)

  21.Jon Feere, “Five Myths about Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants in Senate Bill,” Center for Immigration Studies, May 15, 2013, http://cis.org/feere/5-myths-about-amnesty-illegal-immigrants-senate-bill.

  22.Ibid.

  23.David North, “Lessons Learned from the Legalization Programs of the 1980s,” ILW.com, http://www.ilw.com/articles/2005,0302-north.shtm; and David S. North and Anna Mary Portz, The U.S. Alien Legalization Program (Washington, DC: TransCentury Development Associates, June 1989), 82–90.

  24.North, “Lessons Learned.”

  25.In case that’s not clear enough, in April 2013 Senate negotiators debated whether to require employers of illegal aliens to calculate the Social Security taxes that would have been collected from an American worker. “They chose the milder approach,” Politico reported, requiring illegal aliens to pay only those taxes already “assessed” by the IRS. Which, again, is: Zero. Kelsey Snell, “Gang of Eight Rolls Dice on Immigration,” Politico, April 18, 2013, http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/gang-of-eight-rolls-dice-on-immigration-90313.html.

  26.See, e.g., Snell, “Gang of Eight Rolls Dice on Immigration.”

  27.Robert Rector and Jason Richwine, “The Fiscal Cost of Unlawful Immigrants and Amnesty to the U.S. Taxpayer,” Heritage Foundation, May 6, 2013, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/05/the-fiscal-cost-of-unlawful-immigrants-and-amnesty-to-the-us-taxpayer.

  28.Jan C. Ting, “IRS: Illegal Aliens Can Qualify for Earned Income Tax Credit,” Brandywine to Broad (blog), NewsWorks, May 6, 2011, http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/blogs/brandywine-to-broad/item/19005-irs-illegal-aliens-can-qualify-for-earned-income-tax-credit. (“On June 9, 2000, a ‘Chief Counsel Advice’ was published in the name of ‘Mary Oppenheimer, Acting Assistant Chief Counsel [Employee Benefits],’ though it was signed by ‘Mark Schwimmer, Senior Technician Reviewer.’ This document advises IRS employees that illegal aliens who are disqualified from receiving the EITC can retroactively receive EITC benefits for years worked without a valid Social Security number if, after receiving a valid Social Security number, they file an amended return for the previous years worked.”)

  29.Steven A. Camarota, “Welfare Use by Immigrant Households with Children: A Look at Cash, Medicaid, Housing, and Food Programs,” Center for Immigration Studies, April 2011, http://cis.org/immigrant-welfare-use-2011.

  30.Fox News Sunday, April 14, 2013, transcript available online at FoxNews.com, http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/fox-news-sunday-chris-wallace/2013/04/14/sen-rubio-defends-gang-8-immigration-overhaul-sens-durbin-cornyn-chances-bipartisan#p//v/2300904976001.

  31.The Field Poll, “Near-Universal Support for Allowing Long-Time Undocumented Residents to Stay and Become Citizens under Certain Conditions,” press release, February 22, 2013, http://www.field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/Rls2439.pdf.

  CHAPTER FOUR: THE LIE: THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS AMERICA

  1.As Edmund Burke put it, “This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth.” Edmund Burke, “Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies,” March 22, 1775, available in Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner, eds., “Fundamental Documents,” chapter 1 of The Founders’ Constitution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press and the Liberty Fund, 1987), available online at http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch1s2.html.

  2.Samuel Huntington, Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), 93.

  3.Snopes.com, “Fact Check: Michelle Obama Said Declaration Signers Not ‘Born American,’” Traverse City (MI) Record-Eagle, July 25, 2014, http://www.record-eagle.com/opinion/fact-check-michelle-obama-said-declaration-signers-not-born-american/article_7fd51a6c-3b90-56ff-8eb3-17393f5e23ae.html.

  4.Japan is about 145,000 square miles; the British Isles (Ireland and the United Kingdom), 120,000 square miles; and the Netherlands, 16,000 square miles.

  5.Huntington, Who Are We?

  6.Ibid.

  7.“The Nation: Children of the Founders,” Time, July 5, 1976, available online at http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,917015-1,00.html.

  8.Leonard W. Boasberg, “Phila. and Japan: Quite a Connection There Are Lots of Them, as a New Book Shows, Going Back Even to Franklin,” Philadelphia (PA) Inquirer, April 25, 1999, http://articles.philly.com/1999-04-25/living/25520225_1_japanese-woman-felice-fischer-american-japanese.

  9.Huntington, Who Are We?

  10.Campbell Gibson and Kay Jung, “Historical Census Statistics on Population Totals by Race, 1790 to 1990,” U.S. Census Bureau, September 2002, http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0056/twps0056.html (Table 1, “United States–Race and Hispanic Origin: 1790 to 1990,” http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0056/tab01.pdf).

  11.See George Athan Billias, General John Glover and His Marblehead Mariners (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1960).

  12.Huntington, Who Are We?, 44.

  13.Ibid.

  14.See Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, “Puerto Ricans in the United States: Past, Present, and Future,” presentation given at the Council of State Governments, Eastern Regional Conference, December 9, 2013, slides available online at http://www.csgeast.org/2013annualmeeting/documents/matos.pdf; and “Puerto Ricans in the United States: Research Roundup,”
Journalist’s Resource, July 2, 2013, http://journalistsresource.org/studies/government/immigration/puerto-ricans-in-the-united-states-research-roundup#sthash.BjXLBhNz.dpuf.

  15.“Ellis Island,” National Parks Service, http://www.nps.gov/elis/historyculture/index.htm.

  16.See, e.g., Josiah Henry Benton, Warning Out in New England, 1656–1817 (Boston: W. B. Clarke Co., 1911), available online at https://ia700404.us.archive.org/8/items/warningoutinnewe00josi/warningoutinnewe00josi.pdf; and Steven R. Hoffbeck, “‘Remember the Poor’ (Galatians 2:10): Poor Farms in Vermont,” Vermont History: The Proceedings of the Vermont Historical Society, Fall 1989, https://vermonthistory.org/journal/misc/Remember_v57.pdf.

  17.Huntington, Who Are We?, 186–87.

  18.Alejandro Portes and Ruben Rumbauthow, Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), 39.

  19.See, e.g., Steven A. Camarota, “Immigrants in the United States, 2010: A Profile of America’s Foreign-Born Population,” Center for Immigration Studies, Table 5, August 2012, http://cis.org/2012-profile-of-americas-foreign-born-population#5.

  20.UPI, “The Almanac—Weekly,” April 3, 2012.

  21.[Argentina-born] Andres Oppenheimer, “Racists Will Love New ‘Hispanic Threat’ Book,” Miami Herald, March 3, 2004, http://web.archive.org/web/20040413045004/http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/columnists/andres_oppenheimer/8043803.htm.

  22.Burke, “Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies.”

  23.Samantha Critchell, “Ralph Lauren Throws 40th Anniversary Party during Fashion Week in New York,” Associated Press, September 9, 2007, available online at Sydney (AU) Morning Herald, http://www.thestar.com.my/story/?file=%2f2007%2f9%2f9%2fapworld%2f20070909125001&sec=apworld; and Johanna Neuman, “Modern Jewish History: From Ghetto to Glamour—How Jews Redesigned the Fashion Business,” Jewish Virtual Library, http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/NeumanFashion.html.

  24.Margaret Talbot, “Baghdad on the Plains,” New Republic, August 11, 1997.

  25.David Gregory, Meet The Press, NBC, November 8, 2009.