¡Adios, America!
55.“Teenage Drug Cartel Hit Man.”
56.Associated Press, “Mexico: U.S. Boy Charged as Killer,” New York Times, February 11, 2011, A-8, available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/world/americas/11briefs-Assassin.html.
57.Dana Milbank, “Headless Bodies and Other Immigration Tall Tales in Arizona,” Washington Post, July 11, 2010, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/09/AR2010070902342.html.
58.Alex Pareene, “This Week in Crazy: Jan Brewer; The Arizona Governor Spins Wild Tales of Lawless Arizona, Runs Away When Asked to Explain References to Beheadings,” Salon, September 4, 2010, http://www.salon.com/2010/09/04/this_week_crazy_jan_brewer/.
59.“Around Arizona Briefs,” Arizona Republic (Phoenix), March 8, 2013 (“Crisantos Moroyoqui-Yocupicio made the plea Monday to second-degree murder in the death of Martin Alejandro Cota-Monroy, 38, at an apartment in Chandler on Oct. 10, 2010”); and Laurie Merrill, “Police Call Beheading Revenge for Drug Theft,” Arizona Republic (Phoenix), March 3, 2011 (“The man whose decapitated body was found in a Chandler apartment apparently was killed in retaliation for stealing 400 pounds of marijuana from a Mexican drug-trafficking organization, a police report reveals. . . . Those three suspects, Juan Campos Morales Aguilar, Jose David Castro Reyes and a third man whose full name is not known, were among a group drinking with Cota Monroy the day he was killed, the report says.”).
60.Veronica M. Cruz, “Headless Man’s Identity Still Unknown,” Arizona Daily Star (Tucson), January 12, 2012. (“The autopsy of the decapitated man found west of Tucson last week revealed few details about his identity. The man, whose hands and feet had also been removed, was found on the side of a dirt road Jan. 6. . . . Investigators believe the man was killed in another location and his body was later dumped in the desert. . . .”)
61.The main suspect was Luis Ruiz, a drug dealer. As one often finds in Mexico, the prosecutor in the Oklahoma dismemberment refused to bring charges on grounds that the three witnesses were unreliable. Tim Willert, “‘Flawed’ Police Work Cited in Charge Dismissal,” Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK), March 3, 2013. For the evidence, see “Information, Oklahoma County v. Jimmy Lee Massey and Luis Enrique Ruiz,” http://localtvkfor.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/saunders-murder.pdf.
62.“Expert Says Beheadings in U.S. Look like Work of Cartels,” KRGV Channel 5, January 18, 2012, http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2012/01/expert-says-beheadings-in-us-look-like.html. See also Patrick Radden Keefe, “The Snow Kings of Mexico,” New York Times, June 17, 2012, available online under the headline “How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions,” at http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/magazine/how-a-mexican-drug-cartel-makes-its-billions.html. (“One convicted Sinaloa trafficker [in the United States] told me that it often took him more time to count the money he collected from his customers than it did to actually move the product. It may also help that the penalty for defaulting could involve dismemberment.”)
63.See, e.g., “The GOP’s Nonsense on Immigration,” Washington Post, September 12, 2011. (“[F]ences are costly and easily defeated [think ladders and tunnels.]”)
64.“Two Arrested After 1 Child Beheaded; 2 Partially Decapitated,” WBALTV. com (Baltimore, MD), December 30, 2004, http://www.wbaltv.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/Two-Arrested-After-1-Child-Beheaded-2-Partially-Decapitated/8900586.
65.“Guide to the Case,” Baltimore (MD) Sun, June 30, 2006, http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bal-fallstaffsummary0630-story.html.
66.Matt Fernandez, “20th Anniversary of Mark Kilroy Death and Cult Killings,” March 12, 2009, KVEO.com (TX), http://www.kveo.com/news/20th-anniversary-of-mark-kilroy-death-cult-killings.
67.Peter Bergen and David Sterman, “U.S. Right Wing Extremists More Deadly Than Jihadists,” CNN, April 15, 2014, http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/14/opinion/bergen-sterman-kansas-shooting/.
68.A minimum of 351,000 criminal immigrants are in prison in America (296,000 in state and local facilities, plus 55,000 in federal prisons). Report to Congressional Requesters, 7 and 10. Between 66 and 68 percent of them are Mexican. Ibid., 9 and 15. One percent of all criminal aliens have committed murder in the U.S. Ibid., 19–21, Figure 9 (showing percentage of criminal aliens arrested at least once by offense category). That adds up to a minimum of 23,000 murders in America committed by Mexicans—and legal immigrants weren’t even counted in state prisons, which is where most murderers reside.
69.See generally Janine Zacharia, “Israel’s Media Blackout: Why Aren’t Israeli Journalists Questioning Their Military’s Devastation in Gaza?,” Slate, July 24, 2014, http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/07/israel_s_gaza_reporting_why_so_few_questions_about_the_war_and_palestinian.html.
70.“Andrew Kirell, Bill Maher, and Conservative Guest Surprisingly Agree on Who’s to Blame for Gaza Civilian Deaths,” Mediaite, July 18, 2014, http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-and-conservative-guest-surprisingly-agree-on-whos-to-blame-for-gaza-civilian-deaths/.
71.See, e.g., Isabel Kershner, “Israel Says Hamas Is Hurt Significantly,” New York Times, September 3, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/03/world/middleeast/israel-says-hamas-is-hurt-significantly.html; “Gaza-Israel Conflict: Is the Fighting Over?,” BBC, August 26, 2014, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28252155.
72.Jodi Rudoren, “Israel Kills 3 Top Hamas Leaders as Latest Fighting Turns Its Way,” New York Times, August 22, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/22/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-strip.html.
73.According to the Times of Israel, there are about 4,700 Palestinians incarcerated in Israel, some pending formal charges. Gavriel Fiske, “3,000 Palestinian Inmates Refuse Meals,” Times of Israel, April 17, 2013, http://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinians-mark-prisoners-day/.
74.There were 296,000 in state and local facilities, plus 55,000 in federal prisons. Report to Congressional Requesters, 7 and 10.
75.Sixty-five percent of the approximately 170,000 SCAAP criminal aliens are held in these five local jurisdictions, which comes to 110,500. Report to Congressional Requesters, 15.
76.Matt Lebovic, “Israel a ‘Prisoners’ Paradise,’ Says American Cable Series,” Times of Israel, September 15, 2012, http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-a-prisoners-paradise-says-american-cable-series/.
77.See note 76 above.
78.Report to Congressional Requesters, 28–34.
79.Criminal alien offense types: drug arrests: 17 percent; motor vehicle violations: 14 percent; assault: 7 percent; rape: 2 percent; and murder: 1 percent. Report to Congressional Requesters, 19–21, Figure 9 (showing percentage of criminal aliens arrested at least once by offense category).
80.“Israel 2014 Crime and Safety Report: Tel Aviv,” United States Department of State, February 27, 2014, https://www.osac.gov/pages/ContentReportDetails.aspx?cid=15230.
SPOT THE IMMIGRANT! CASE NO. 1: FRESNO, CALIFORNIA
1.Don Terry, “Gang Rape of Three Girls Leaves Fresno Shaken, and Questioning,” New York Times, May 1, 1998, http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/01/us/gang-rape-of-three-girls-leaves-fresno-shaken-and-questioning.html.
2.See, e.g., Associated Press, “New Indictment Charges 23 Hmongs with Series of Rapes,” October 20, 1999, available online at the Los Angeles Times, http://articles.latimes.com/1999/oct/21/news/mn-24690. (“A separate 500-count indictment last year charged 14 defendants, who are scheduled for trial Nov. 15.”)
3.Nexis search of New York Times archives after May 1, 1998, for: “Hmong w/s (rape or sex! or assault!) and (motel or fresno)”: No results.
4.Mei-Ling Hopgood and Jeff Gerritt, “Crime Wave Sends Ripples through Close-Knit Group of Laotian Immigrants,” Detroit (MI) Free Press, October 27, 1999. See also Michael Reese, “A Tragedy in Santa Monica,” Newsweek, May 6, 1985. (“In California’s San Joaquin Valley, for example, four Hmong refugees from the remote mountains of Laos have been prosecuted on kidnap and rape charges for engaging in what to them is the customary way of claiming a young bride.”)
5.Katherine Bishop, “Asian Tradition at War with American Laws,” New York Times, February 10, 1988, http://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/10/us/asian-tradition-at-war-with-american-laws.html.
6.Ibid.
7.Myrna Oliver, “Immigrant Crimes, Cultural Defense—a Legal Tactic,” Los Angeles Times, July 15, 1988, http://articles.latimes.com/1988-07-15/news/mn-7189_1_cultural-defense.
8.Associated Press, “Three Arrested in Alleged Purchase of Girl,” July 17, 1991.
9.“La Crosse County Court Officials: Judge Ramona Gonzales,” La Crosse County Clerk of Courts, http://www.co.la-crosse.wi.us/departments/court/docs/Judges.htm. (“Birth Place: Dominican Republic.”)
10.“Wisconsin: Molester Sentenced to English Lessons,” Los Angeles Times, August 29, 1996, http://articles.latimes.com/1996-08-29/news/mn-38707_1_english-lessons.
11.See, e.g., Pam Louwagie and Dan Browning, “Shamed into Silence,” Minneapolis (MN) Star Tribune, March 23, 2012, http://www.startribune.com/local/11594631.html; and Hopgood and Gerritt, “Crime Wave Sends Ripples.”
12.Louwagie and Browning, “Shamed into Silence.”
13.Ibid.
14.Associated Press, “Indictment Charges 23 Hmong.”
15.Ruben Rosario, “St. Paul Immigrant Family Enduring Ultimate Tragedy after Crime,” St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press, May 11, 1998.
16.Amy Doeun, “2011 Gang Rape Case Brought to Court in St. Paul,” Hmong Times (St. Paul, MN), December 26, 2012, http://hmongtimes.com/main.asp?SectionID=31&SubSectionID=190&ArticleID=4630&TM=44237.
17.Louwagie and Browning, “Shamed into Silence.”
18.Ibid.
19.Ibid.
20.Robert F. Moore, “Police Warn Hmong after Rapes,” St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press, December 19, 1997.
21.Louwagie and Browning, “Shamed into Silence.”
22.See, e.g., ibid.
23.“American FactFinder: Hmong,” U.S. Census Bureau, 2013, http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_13_1YR_B02015&prodType=table.
24.“Statistics Canada: Hmong,” 2006 Census topic-based tabulations, http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/tbt/Rp-eng.cfm?LANG=E&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=0&GID=0&GK=0&GRP=1&PID=92333&PRID=0&PTYPE=88971,97154&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=0&Temporal=2006&THEME=80&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=.
25.2010 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics (Washington, DC: Department of Homeland Security, August 2011), https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/yearbook/2010/ois_yb_2010.pdf.
26.Mark Arax, “Hmong’s Sacrifice of Puppy Reopens Cultural Wounds,” Los Angeles Times, December 16, 1995, http://articles.latimes.com/1995-12-16/news/mn-14591_1_hmong-community.
27.Ibid.
28.Ibid.
29.Ibid.
30.Minnesota v. Tenerelli, 598 N.W.2d 668, 672 (Minn. 1999), available online at http://mn.gov/web/prod/static/lawlib/live//archive/supct/9908/c398318.htm.
31.Arax, “Hmong’s Sacrifice of Puppy Reopens Cultural Wounds.”
32.Kirsten Scharnberg, “Surviving Culture Shock,” Baltimore (MD) Sun, March 8, 1999, http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1999-03-08/news/9903080127_1_hmong-culture-shock-immigrants.
33.See, e.g., Joseph Tybor, “Eye of Newt, Wool of Bat: Is This What the Future Holds for American Courts?,” Chicago Tribune, August 21, 1988, http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1988/08/21/page/84/article/eye-of-newt-wool-of-bat-is-this-what-the-future-holds-for-american-courts; and Terry Wilson, “2 Hmong Convicted of Beating Motorist,” Chicago Tribune, May 5, 1988, http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1988-05-05/news/8803140564_1_hmong-rooster-battery.
34.Doriane Lambelet Coleman, “Culture, Cloaked in Mens Rea,” South Atlantic Quarterly 100, no. 4 (Fall 2001), http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1924&context=faculty_scholarship.
CHAPTER NINE: PUBLIC WARNED TO BE ON LOOKOUT FOR “MAN”
1.Olatokunbo Olukemi “Street Smut: Gender, Media, and the Legal Power Dynamics of Street Harassment, or ‘Hey Sexy’ and Other Verbal Ejaculations,” Columbia Journal of Gender and the Law 14, no. 1 (2005).
2.Here are recent Department of Justice statistics for white-on-black rape:
DOJ Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2008:
White Offender/Black Victim—Rape/Sexual Assaults: 0.0
DOJ Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2007:
White Offender/Black Victim—Rape/Sexual Assaults: 0.0
DOJ Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2006:
White Offender/Black Victim—Rape/Sexual Assaults: 0.0
DOJ Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2005:
White Offender/Black Victim—Rape/Sexual Assaults: 0.0
DOJ Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2004:
White Offender/Black Victim—Rape/Sexual Assaults: 0.0
DOJ Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2003:
White Offender/Black Victim—Rape/Sexual Assaults: 0.0
DOJ Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2002:
White Offender/Black Victim—Rape/Sexual Assaults: [Sample based on 10 or fewer]
DOJ Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2001:
White Offender/Black Victim—Rape/Sexual Assaults: [Sample based on 10 or fewer]
DOJ Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2000:
White Offender/Black Victim—Rape/Sexual Assaults: [Sample based on 10 or fewer]
DOJ Criminal Victimization in the United States, 1999:
White Offender/Black Victim—Rape/Sexual Assaults: 0.0
DOJ Criminal Victimization in the United States, 1998:
White Offender/Black Victim—Rape/Sexual Assaults: [Sample based on 10 or fewer]
DOJ Criminal Victimization in the United States, 1997:
White Offender/Black Victim—Rape/Sexual Assaults: 0.0
During the same time period, blacks were raping whites at a clip of several thousand per year—and raping black women at a rate of many multiple thousand per year, according to Department of Justice victimization surveys. (Victimization surveys are obviously the most accurate measure of who is committing crimes because someone who has just been the victim of a crime is not going to lie about the race of his assailant for the good of the race.)
3.According to the New York Times the two nations that send the most tourists on Thai sex tours are Japan—and Germany. We’ve seen evidence of what Alexis de Tocqueville called the French’s “contempt of women,” not only with the Gallic hilarity over Americans’ minding that a U.S. president was using female underlings for oral sex, but more recently, when Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, was accused of raping a hotel maid in New York City. That rape charge turned out to be another immigrant scam—at least in the sense that the sex was consensual. Still, when the story first broke, Natalie Nougayrede, diplomatic correspondent for France’s Le Monde newspaper, pointed out that it took a day and a half for the media in France to say, “Well, maybe we should be expressing some concern and, you know, empathy for this woman and not just be scandalized about how he was dealt with by the American police.”
4.Frances Burns, “Man Allegedly Forced Philadelphia Doctor into Her Apartment and Raped Her,” United Press International, June 24, 2014, available online under the headline “Man Charged with Raping Young Doctor in Philadelphia’s Upscale Rittenhouse Square Neighborhood,” at http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2014/06/24/Man-charged-with-raping-young-doctor-in-Philadelphias-upscale-Rittenhouse-Square-neighborhood/8991403632733/; Vince Lattanzio, “Man Charged with Rittenhouse Doctor’s Rape,” NBC10.com (Philadelphia), June 25, 2014, http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Charges-in-Rittenhouse-Doctors-Rape-264370101.html#ixzz3F108wEhC; and Dave Boyer, “Illegal Immigrant Charged with Rape While in Sanctuary City,” Washington Times, July 7, 2014, available online under the headline “Two-Time Illegal Immigrant Charged with Rape in Philly’s Sanctuary City,” at http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/6/illegal-immigrant-charged-wi
th-rape-while-in-sanct/?page=all.
5.“Holly Springs Man Faces Child-Sex Charge,” News & Observer (Raleigh, NC), July 18, 2013.
6.None of the Seattle Times’ headlines identified the rapist as an immigrant: Jennifer Sullivan, “Judge in Rape Case Denies Defendant’s Mistrial Motion,” Seattle Times, November 9, 2010; Sullivan, “Man Convicted on 7 Counts in Child-Rape Case; Attacks on Four Victims in 1990s—Charges Involving Alleged 5th Victim Dropped,” Seattle Times, December 9, 2010; Sullivan, “Child Rapist Sentenced to 53 Years; His Nonchalance Shocks Families—Man Represented Himself in Court,” Seattle Times, January 22, 2011.
7.Ibid.
8.See, e.g., Susannah Meadows and Evan Thomas, “What Happened at Duke?,” Newsweek, May 1, 2006.
9.Sarah Fowler, “Columbus Resident Charged with Molestation,” Commercial Dispatch (Columbus, MI), April 24, 2014, http://www.cdispatch.com/printerfriendly.asp?aid=32863. (“He also has a hold for immigration according to officials with the Lowndes County Adult Detention Center.”)
10.Todd South, “Smuggling Case Nets 15-Year Sentence,” Chattanooga (TN) Times Free Press, May 25, 2013.
11.See U.S. v. German Rolando Vicente-Sapon, USDC (Eastern Dist. Tenn.), November 14, 2012; and “German Rolando Vicente-Sapon Sentenced to Serve 15 Years in Prison for Transporting a Minor across the Mexican Border for Unlawful Sexual Activity,” press release, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Tennessee, May 24, 2013, http://www.fbi.gov/knoxville/press-releases/2013/german-rolando-vicente-sapon-sentenced-to-serve-15-years-in-prison-for-transporting-a-minor-across-the-mexican-border-for-unlawful-sexual-activity.
12.South, “Man Guilty in Case of Human Smuggling,” Chattanooga (TN) Times Free Press, November 16, 2012, http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2012/nov/16/man-guilty-in-case-of-human-smuggling/93022/.
13.Ling v. Georgia (S. Ct. GA), November 22, 2010, available online at http://caselaw.findlaw.com/ga-supreme-court/1545439.html#sthash.AUwRwIqS.dpuf.