¡Adios, America!

52.Developed-country list of births to girls aged ten or younger:

  One child pregnancy in Switzerland to immigrants from Cameroon. “10-Year-Old Gives Birth to a Child,” Times of India, September 20, 2005, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/10-year-old-gives-birth-to-a-child/articleshow/1236732.cms.

  Two child pregnancies in Spain to immigrants from Colombia and gypsy immigrants from Romania. The ten-year-old gypsy girl, Elena Chiritescu, was impregnated by her thirteen-year-old cousin, who had been raised as her brother. See, e.g., Nick Fagge and Tamara Cohen, “Tragic Tale of Star-Crossed Lovers,” Sunday Times (Australia), November 7, 2010. (Luckily for us, the New York Times is on a campaign to bring more gypsies to America!)

  One child pregnancy in Belgium to a ten-year-old girl and a thirteen-year-old father in 2005, about whom no ethnic information is available. Hints that the case did not involve Belgian nationals include the fact that the little girl’s mother was delighted and that a Dutch medical journal’s report on the pregnancy noted that birth control for ten-year-olds was being prescribed mostly to “ethnic girls.” “Doctor Calls 10-Year-Old Belgian Girl’s Birth ‘Dangerous,’” FoxNews.com, October 3, 2007, http://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/10/03/doctor-calls-10-year-old-belgian-girlrsquos-birth-lsquodangerousrsquo/.

  Actual American, William Edward Ronca, struck in 2006.

  One child pregnancy in the United States when, in 2008, Guadalupe Gutierrez-Juarez, thirty-eight, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, was arrested in Idaho, along with his twenty-seven-year-old illegal alien girlfriend, Isabel Chasarez, after the girlfriend’s ten-year-old daughter showed up at an Idaho hospital nine months pregnant and medical staff called the police. Nick Draper, “Child Rapist Sent to Prison,” Idaho Falls (ID) Post Register, November 26, 2008.

  In California, fifty-year-old immigrant Paul Narvios repeatedly raped his girlfriend’s nine-year-old daughter, getting her pregnant. See, e.g., “Girl, 10, Gave Birth—Abuser Sentenced,” San Francisco Gate, September 9, 1999; and [Unnamed story] Associated Press State, September 9, 1999.

  In 2011, a thirty-three-year-old illegal immigrant from Haiti, Fede Datilus, became the fourth “American” child-impregnator after getting a nine-year-old girl in Florida pregnant. See, e.g., Wayne K. Roustan, “Lantana Man Gets Life in Prison for Impregnating Girl, 9,” Sun Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL), March 23, 2011.

  53.Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy In America, vol. 2, trans. Henry Reeve (1840), Kindle version, 3212.

  54.The Latin American and Caribbean Youth Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights, for example, issued a policy statement on adolescent girls’ “rights” including, the “right to decide whether or not to have sex, free from coercion or violence.” Latin American and Caribbean Women’s Health Network, “Special Session on Children: A Response to the Needs of Children and Adolescents worldwide? (Sexual Rights and Reproductive Rights),” 2003, available online at http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Special+session+on+children%3A+a+response+to+the+needs+of+children+and . . . -a0105915326.

  55.Christopher McDougall, “Slick Transit Gloria,” New York Times Magazine, April 7, 2002, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/07/magazine/07TREVI.html.

  56.“Mexico: Rape Victims Denied Legal Abortion,” Human Rights Watch, March 7, 2006, http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2006/03/06/mexico-rape-victims-denied-legal-abortion.

  57.McDougall, “Slick Transit Gloria.”

  58.Shana L. Maier, Rape, Victims, and Investigations: Experiences and Perceptions of Law Enforcement Officers Responding to Reported Rapes (London: Routledge, 2014), 82, available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=eZbOAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA103&dq=Violence+and+Victims+2007+Reporting+to+the+Police+by+Hispanic+Victims+of+Violence+Rennison&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QtSXVLf6OsKdNvLng5gK&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=accepting&f=false.

  59.Ibid., 82–83.

  60.That was in 2005. Between 2000 and 2010, the Hispanic population in Mecklenburg County grew from 6.5 percent to 12.2 percent. Linda Shipley and Laura Simmons, “Demographic and Economic Changes in Mecklenburg County, N.C.,” Slide 6, UNC Charlotte Urban Institute, October 2011, http://www.slideshare.net/uipublicaffairs/demographic-economic-changes-in-mecklenburg-county-nc.

  61.“The Boys’ Club: Victims of Statutory Rape Still Low Priority with County,” Creative Loafing (Charlotte, NC), August 3, 2005, http://clclt.com/charlotte/the-boys-club/Content?oid=2360018.

  62.U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Child Maltreatment, 2006 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2008), http://archive.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/pubs/cm06/cm06.pdf.

  CHAPTER TWELVE: KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL MULTICULTURAL

  1.CNN Wire Staff, “McCain Blames Some Arizona Wildfires on Illegal Immigrants,” CNN, June 19, 2011, http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/19/arizona.mccain.wildfire.claim/.

  2.“John McCain: Immigrants Caused Arizona Wildfires,” Huffington Post, June 19, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/19/john-mccain-illegal-immigration-arizona-wildfires_n_880145.html.

  3.Lee Hockstader, “John McCain Fans the Fires of Immigration Intolerance in Arizona,” Washington Post, June 20, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/john-mccain-fans-the-fires-of-immigration-intolerance-in-arizona/2011/06/20/AGJV56cH_blog.html.

  4.“Grijalva Condemns McCain Statement Accusing Undocumented Immigrants of Causing Arizona Forest Fires—Still No Evidence Offered,” press release, Office of Congressman Raul M. Grijalva, June 20, 2011, http://grijalva.house.gov/news-and-press-releases/grijalva-condemns-mccain-statement-accusing-undocumented-immigrants-of-causing-arizona-forest-fires-ndash-still-no-evidence-offered/.

  5.E.g., sparks from all-terrain vehicles, welding machines, recreational shooting, or fireworks. U.S. Government Accountability Office, Report to Congressional Requesters: Arizona Border Region: Federal Agencies Could Better Utilize Law Enforcement Resources in Support of Wildland Fire Management Activities (Washington, DC: Government Accountability Office, November 2011), http://www.gao.gov/assets/590/586139.pdf.

  6.See, e.g., Douglas Stanglin, “McCain Links Some of Arizona Fires to Illegal Immigrants,” USA Today, June 20, 2011, http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/06/mccain-links-arizona-fires-to-illegal-immigrants-but-offers-scant-evidence/1#.VQsmXhDF_w8; and Frank James, “McCain: Forest Service Gave Info That Illegal Immigrants Started Wildfires,” NPR, June 20, 2011, http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2011/06/20/137307094/mccain-forest-service-gave-info-that-illegal-immigrants-started-wildfires (“Absolutely not, according to what I’ve been told.”).

  7.U.S. Government Accountability Office, Report to Congressional Requesters.

  8.Ibid.

  9.Ibid.

  10.Associated Press, “News in Brief from the San Joaquin Valley,” September 25, 2002.

  11.Adam Burke, “The Public Lands’ Big Cash Crop,” High Country News, October 31, 2005, http://www.hcn.org/issues/309/15867.

  12.Nick Madigan, “Marijuana Found Thriving in Forests,” New York Times, November 16, 2002, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/16/us/marijuana-found-thriving-in-forests.html.

  13.David Castellon, “Officials Get Aggressive to Rid Foothills of Pot,” Tulare (CA) Advance-Register, September 21, 2005.

  14.Associated Press, “News in Brief from the San Joaquin Valley,” September 25, 2002; Julie Cart, “Park’s Pot Problem Explodes,” Los Angeles Times, May 14, 2003, http://articles.latimes.com/2003/may/14/local/me-pot14.

  15.Ginger Thompson, “Mexico Leader Presses U.S. to Resolve Migrants’ Issues,” New York Times, November 27, 2002, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/27/world/mexico-leader-presses-us-to-resolve-migrants-issues.html.

  16.Richard Stana, Border Security: Additional Actions Needed to Better Ensure a Coordinated Federal Response to Illegal Activity on Federal Lands (Washington, DC: Government Accountability Office, November 18, 2010), photos at 20–22, available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=QoddG13hCwQC&pg=PP2&lpg=PP2&dq=BORDER+SECURITY+Additional+Actions+Needed+to+Better+Ensure+a+Coordinated+Fede
ral+Response+to+Illegal+Activity+on+Federal+Lands+november+2010&source=bl&ots=bb2Nu1yHfI&sig=2GOQkuHTxHvqPzpXFHNR79W_8lU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-G9mVPSTEIudgwSuyIOABw&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=monument&f=false. (“In our November 2010 report, we reported that BLM officials posted warning signs at 11 entrance locations of the Sonoran Desert National Monument to warn the public against travel on portions of the monument because of potential encounters with illegal border crossers.”)

  17.See Jodi Peterson, “After 11 Years, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument Reopens,” High Country News, September 17, 2014, http://www.hcn.org/articles/after-12-years-organ-pipe-national-monument-reopens.

  18.Stana, Border Security. (“In our November 2010 report, we reported that BLM officials posted warning signs at 11 entrance locations of the Sonoran Desert National Monument to warn the public against travel on portions of the monument because of potential encounters with illegal border crossers.”)

  19.See, e.g., ibid.; John Ritter, “Drug Agents Can’t Keep Up with Pot Growers,” USA Today, October 13, 2005, http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-10-12-pot-growers-cover_x.htm; and Burke, “The Public Lands’ Big Cash Crop.”

  20.See, e.g., Burke, “The Public Lands’ Big Cash Crop.”

  21.Victor A. Patton, “High Times Ahead? Marijuana Number One Illegal Crop in Merced County,” Merced (CA) Sun-Star, August 11, 2007, http://www.mercedsunstar.com/incoming/article3251353.html (quoting Neil Compston, task force commander of the Merced Multi-Agency Narcotics Task Force).

  22.Ritter, “Drug Agents Can’t Keep Up with Pot Growers.”

  23.Madigan, “Marijuana Found Thriving in Forests.”

  24.Julie Scelfo, “Five Beginners’ Steps to a Greener Home,” New York Times, March 11, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/garden/12greenhome.html?_r=0.

  25.Zusha Elinson, “Budget Cuts Endanger State’s Marijuana Eradication Program,” New York Times, July 29, 2011, page A17, available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/us/29bccamp.html?pagewanted=all&gwh=F19F5AD64AC492D28C2BD1AEAFA1211D&gwt=pay. This was the only additional article that came up on the topic, in various Nexis searches of the New York Times, such as: “national park and (marijuana or pot) w/s (grow! or garden! or farm! or plant!)”; and “(mexic! or cartel) and “national park and (pot or marijuana) w/s (grow! or garden!)” for the past twenty years.

  26.Sean Garmire, “Pot Farms Busted on State, Federal Land,” Eureka (CA) Times Standard, September 13, 2008.

  27.Beth Greenfield, “Land of the Giants,” New York Times, September 19, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/travel/escapes/19mile.html.

  28.Madigan, “Marijuana Found Thriving.”

  29.Tim Bragg, “Shots Fired at National Park Rangers in Pot Raid,” Fresno (CA) Bee, August 9, 2007

  30.Cart, “Park’s Pot Problem.”

  31.Ginger Thompson, “Where Butterflies Rest, Damage Runs Rampant,” New York Times, June 2, 2004, http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/02/international/americas/02butt.html.

  32.Ibid.

  33.Andres Castillo and Walyce Almeida, “Case Study: Eco-Journalism and Cleaning Up Sumidero’s Canyon,” Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change, 2013, http://www.salzburg.umd.edu/print/lessons/eco-journalism.

  34.See, e.g., a few recent travel blogs—with photos: Rebecca Pokoro, “Exploring the Sumidero Canyon,” The Girl and Globe (blog), June 29, 2014, http://thegirlandglobe.com/sumidero-canyon/ (with pictures); Monica Rodriguez, “2014 Sumidero Canyon, Mexico,” Monica in the World (blog), April 14, 2012, http://monicaerodriguez.wordpress.com/2014/04/05/2014-sumidero-canyon-mexico/; Dany, “Sumidero Canyon: The Good, No bad, but Some Ugly,” Globetrotter Girls (blog), September 7, 2010, http://globetrottergirls.com/2010/09/sumidero-canyon-good-no-bad-some-ugly/ (after detailing the garbage, this travel blogger added: “Anyway—I hope Mexico is on your list of countries to visit. . . . It’s an amazing country, and so diverse.”).

  35.Dudley Althaus, “Litter Choking Streets throughout Mexico,” Houston (TX) Chronicle, June 25, 2007, http://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/Litter-choking-streets-throughout-Mexico-1824829.php.

  36.“Video: Tulum’s Dirty Beaches,” CoastalCare.org, January 25, 2011, http://coastalcare.org/2011/01/tulums-dirty-beaches/.

  37.Althaus, “Litter Choking Streets throughout Mexico.”

  38.Ibid.

  39.Ibid.

  40.Ibid.

  41.Ibid.

  42.Seth Mydans, “U.S. and Mexico Take On a Joint Burden: Sewage,” New York Times, August 22, 1990, http://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/22/us/us-and-mexico-take-on-a-joint-burden-sewage.html.

  43.“South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant (SBIWTP),” Recovery.gov, http://www.ibwc.state.gov/mission_operations/sbiwtp.html.

  44.“Angeles Trashed over Labor Day,” Modern Hiker (blog), September 8, 2011, http://modernhiker.com/2011/09/08/angeles-trashed-over-labor-day/.

  45.Brigid Schulte, “Wheaton Neighborhood Is the Face of Montgomery’s Shift to Majority Minority,” Washington Post, February 15, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/14/AR2011021404044.html.

  46.Ibid.

  47.“Who Cleans Up after the Party?,” letter to the editor, Desert Sun (Palm Springs, CA), September 30, 2010.

  48.“Mapping L.A.: Vermont Square,” Comments Section, Los Angeles Times, 2009–2012, available at http://maps.latimes.com/neighborhoods/neighborhood/vermont-square/comments/.

  49.Ibid.

  50.Victor Zuniga and Ruben Hernandez-Leon, eds., New Destinations: Mexican Immigration in the United States (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005), 205.

  51.Wcross, “Is Litter an Issue in Your Area?,” Democratic Underground, February 6, 2005, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=268x242.

  52.Maria Cramer, “Mime Plan’s Language Draws Offense,” Boston Globe, May 3, 2005, http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/05/03/mime_plans_language_draws_offense?pg=full.

  53.Jorge Trevino, who runs an anti-littering campaign in Mexico, said: “If you throw trash on the highway here in Mexico, no one says anything.” Althaus, “Litter Choking Streets.”

  54.Alejandra Lopez, “Demographics of California Counties: A Comparison of 1980, 1990, and 2000 Census Data,” Stanford University, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, June 2002, http://web.stanford.edu/dept/csre/reports/report_9.pdf. (San Bernardino County in 1980: 82.4 percent white, 18.5 Hispanic; Riverside County in 1980: 82.1 percent white, 18.9 percent Hispanic).

  55.“State andCounty QuickFacts: San Bernardino,” U.S. Census Bureau, http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/06071.html.

  56.“State and County QuickFacts: Riverside, CA,” U.S. Census Bureau, http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/06065.html.

  57.“Joshua Tree National Park Graffiti Prompts Closure of Rattlesnake Canyon Area,” Huffington Post, April 12, 2013, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/12/joshua-tree-national-park-graffiti_n_3070310.html.

  58.“California—Race and Hispanic Origin for Selected Large Cities and Other Places: Earliest Census to 1990,” U.S. Census Bureau, http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0076/CAtab.pdf.

  59.“Rancho Cucamonga (City), California,” U.S. Census Bureau, http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/0659451.html

  60.“Graffiti Vandals Deface California’s Scenic Sapphire Falls,” USA Today, June 23, 2013, http://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/news/2013/06/25/graffiti-vandals-deface-californias-scenic-sapphire-falls/2455089/?AID=10709313&PID=6147661&SID=11i8nm3i8urp1; see also “Bitches Love the Bees,” Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/60811444@N05/8538200224; and David McNew, “Vandals Target Los Angeles Area National Forests,” Getty Images, June 24, 2013, http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/rocks-and-cliffs-are-covered-with-graffiti-near-sapphire-news-photo/171415503.

  61.Neil Nisperos, “U.S. Forest Service to Close Cucamonga Canyon,” Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, August 22, 2013, http://www.dailybulletin.com
/general-news/20130822/us-forest-service-to-close-cucamonga-canyon.

  62.“Cucamonga Canyon Closure Update,” City of Rancho Cucamonga, no date, http://www.cityofrc.com/news/displayarchive.asp?Type=1&targetID=5.

  63.Ibid.

  64.“Sapphire Falls Trail, Reviews,” AllTrails.com, http://alltrails.com/trail/us/california/sapphire-falls.

  65.“Official Sierra Club Population Policy,” SUSPS.org, http://www.susps.org/history/scpolicy.html.

  66.Ibid.

  67.Kenneth R. Weiss, “The Man behind the Land,” Los Angeles Times, October 27, 2004, http://articles.latimes.com/2004/oct/27/local/me-donor27.

  68.See Matt Kettmann, “It’s Not Easy Being Green,” Santa Barbara (CA) Independent, March 11, 2004, http://media.independent.com/pdf/matt_k/sierracover.pdf.

  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.”