¡Adios, America!

  17.Jonathan Martin, “Tea Party Aims at Incumbents, but Falls Short,” New York Times, April 5, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/05/us/politics/tea-party-challenge-to-republican-incumbents-fizzles.html.

  18.Dave Montgomery, “Senate Approves Immigration Overhaul,” Philadelphia Inquirer, May 26, 2006, http://articles.philly.com/2006-05-26/news/25401366_1_illegal-immigrants-immigration-law-senate-plan.

  19.James O’Toole, “Santorum Tries Immigration as a Key Issue,” Pittsburgh (PA) Post-Gazette, July 9, 2006; and Brett Lieberman, “Immigration Surfaces in Senate Race,” Patriot News (Harrisburg, PA), July 30, 2006.

  20.See, for example, the transcript of the February 22, 2012, presidential debate. “Full transcript of CNN Arizona Republican Presidential Debate,” CNN, February 22, 2012, http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1202/22/se.05.html; and Jeremy Duda, “Romney, Santorum Battle, but Little Focus on Arizona Issues,” Arizona Capitol Times, February 22, 2012, http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/22/romney-santorum-battle-but-little-focus-on-arizona-issues/.

  21.Jay Root and Julián Aguilar, “Cruz Tries to Claim the Middle Ground on Immigration,” New York Times, September 12, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/13/us/cruz-tries-to-claim-the-middle-ground-onimmigration.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0.

  22.“Sen. Cruz Opening Statement on Immigration Legislation,” press release, Ted Cruz, U.S. Senator for Texas, May 9, 2013, http://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=140.

  23.“Sen. Ted Cruz, R-TX, Intvd on Bloomberg TV,” Analyst Wire, January 30, 2014.

  24.Ashley Parker and Julia Preston, “Immigration Bill Allies Aim for Added Support,” New York Times, May 23, 2013, available online under the headline “Allies of Immigration Bill Aim for Added Support,” at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/us/politics/allies-of-immigration-bill-aim-for-added-support.html.

  25.Rebecca Fater, “Romney: State Troopers Should Have Power to Arrest Illegal Immigrants,” Lowell (MA) Sun, June 22, 2006, http://www.lowellsun.com/front/ci_3967655; and Fater, “Feds Say State Can Bust Illegal Immigrants,” Lowell (MA) Sun, December 6, 2006, http://www.lowellsun.com/front/ci_4788846.

  26.Evan Lehmann, “Immigrant Rights Advocates Denounce Romney Order,” Lowell (MA) Sun, December 15, 2006.

  27.Steve Leblanc, “Reilly, Romney Spar over Immigrant Tuition Bill,” Associated Press, November 1, 2005.

  28.So you know that I’m not tricking you, his full statement on immigration the Sunday before the midterm elections was: “You’re going to see a provision, first of all, to secure the border. Second of all, to deal with those who come here illegally. And third, to make sure our immigration policies are more open and transparent. . . . That’s going to happen. You’re going to see a bill actually reach the desk of the president if we finally have someone besides Harry Reid sitting in the Senate. So, we’re going to get it done.”

  29.Tony Lee, “Exclusive: Sarah Palin: Romney in ‘Never Never Land’ on Amnesty,” Breitbart.com, November 2, 2014, http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/11/02/exclusive-sarah-palin-romney-in-never-never-land-on-amnesty/.

  INDEX

  A

  Abdel-Rahmen, Sheikh Omar, 235

  Abouhalima, Mahmud, 234

  Acapulco, 171

  Acevedo, Elias, 182

  activist groups, 33

  Acuna, Rebecca, 266

  Adamkus, Valdas, 40

  Adelson, Sheldon, 79, 219, 226, 270

  affirmative action, 63–64, 86, 107, 141

  Afghanistan, Afghans, 15, 60–61, 93, 95, 97, 241, 248

  Africa, Africans, 53–55, 58, 70, 76–77, 83–84, 86, 93–94, 221, 233, 237, 248

  African Americans, 6, 23, 32, 54–55, 63, 83–84, 161, 175, 262. See also blacks

  African Development Center, 86

  A. G. Currie Middle School, 67

  Ahmed, Shirwa, 96

  Ahmedzay, Zarein, 95

  AIDS, 167

  al-Awlaki, Abdulrahman, 40

  al-Awlaki, Anwar, 40, 98

  al-Awlaki, Nasser, 40

  Albania, Albanians, 28, 111, 248

  Albany, NY, 154

  Albion’s Seed (Fischer), 143

  Aleman Cruz, Salvador, 147–48

  Alexander, Lamar, 43

  al-Hilali, Sheikh Taj el-Din, 169

  Ali, Shuhel Mahboob, 106

  America

  as special, 7

  citizens of, 3, 13, 15, 18, 32, 34–37, 39–43, 47–48, 56, 88, 91, 94–98, 102, 108–11, 118, 125, 127, 151, 179, 199, 204, 234, 245–46, 251, 269, 275

  demographics of, 19, 75, 262

  men of, 144, 163, 172, 238–39

  American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration Policy, 57

  American Civic Association, 91

  American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 8, 11, 62, 150, 231, 247, 261

  American Immigration Law Foundation, 247

  American Immigration Lawyers Association, 57, 247

  “Americanization Day,” 26

  American Revolution, the, 52, 55, 59

  American Samoa, 101

  Amirault family, the, 7

  amnesty, 2–8, 10–2, 32, 40–41, 44–46, 48, 75, 148, 172, 182, 212, 221, 234–37, 247, 252, 263, 266, 267, 269–70, 272–77

  granted by Reagan, 4, 7, 44–45, 102, 273

  proposed by Obama, 32, 47, 219, 221–22, 270

  Amnesty International, 172

  Amnesty International USA, 252

  anchor babies, 34–36, 38–39, 119, 127

  Andrade, Sergio, 192

  Andreessen, Marc, 239

  Andy Griffith Show, The, 226

  Angeles National Forest, 198

  Anglo-Saxons, 28, 51, 54, 57, 60–61, 144, 193

  Angola, 58

  Annapolis, MD, 172

  Appalachia, 144

  Appalachian School of Law, 92

  Apple Computer, 239

  Arabs, 28, 111, 144, 170, 235

  Arakali, Harichandan, 238

  Arkansas, 150, 190

  Armendariz, Reyna (aunt of Medellin), 177

  Armendariz, Reyna (cousin of Medellin), 178

  Armenia, Armenians, 64

  Armstrong, Saundra Brown, 231

  Asia, Asians, 27, 33, 65–66, 71, 76–77, 89, 97, 134, 137, 144, 152, 168, 230, 238, 259, 262, 266

  Asian-American Defense and Education Fund,

  assimilation, 26–27, 59–60, 85–86, 137, 140–41, 207, 245

  Associated Press, 32, 97, 135, 148, 165–66, 182

  Atherton, CA, 226

  Atlas: DIY, 247

  Australia, 57, 93, 167, 169, 191, 252, 254

  Austria, 181–82, 241

  Ayotte, Kelly, 43

  B

  “Baby Hope,” 183–85

  Baghdad, 58

  Baird, Zoë, 223–26

  Bali Reddy, Lakireddy, 227–28, 231, 275

  Balkans, 61, 248

  Baltimore, MD, 124, 140

  Banerjee, Ron, 238

  Banks, Sandy, 158, 161, 219–20

  Bapat, Neesha, 238

  Barker Dam, 208

  Barlett, Donald L., 74

  Barrett, Craig, 241–42

  Barton, Richard, 239

  Bastardo, Carlos E., 164

  Batista, Antonio, 246

  Bau, Ignatius, 211, 224, 237, 280

  Bear Stearns, 72–75

  beheadings, 58, 121–24, 255

  Belgium, 53, 241

  Beltran Rodriquez, Gerardo, 109

  Berenson, Lori, 21

  Berglund, Tom, 196

  Berkeley, CA, 227–31

  Berkeley High Jacket, 230

  Berlin, Irving, 60

  Berry, Chuck, 55

  Biden, Joe, 224

  Bilbray, Brian P., 204

  Binghamton, NY, 91, 93

  bin Laden, Osama, 119

  birthright citizenship, 34, 118

  Bismarck, ND, 65

  Black, Hugo, 37

  Black Congressional Caucus Foundation, 211–12

  blacks, 4, 6, 32,
37, 55, 63–64, 83, 85, 99, 117, 206, 257–58, 278. See also African Americans

  “Blind Sheikh,” the, 235

  Bloomberg, Michael, 215, 270

  blue-collar workers, 20, 22, 226

  Bobbitt, John, 183

  Boehner, John, 148, 262

  Bolivia, 122

  border, the (U.S.), 3, 5, 7–11, 31–32, 37–39, 42–44, 68, 71, 79, 99, 115–16, 118, 120–23, 125–28, 149, 151, 159, 196, 198, 204, 207, 212, 214, 216, 220–22, 246–47, 260–61, 274–76. See also southern border, the (U.S.)

  fences and, 9–11, 68, 94, 99, 115, 119, 120–25, 151, 197–98, 225, 269, 273–74, 276

  proposals to secure, 7–11, 42–43, 196, 274

  Border Agency Fire Council, 198

  border agents (U.S.), 8, 204

  Border Information and Outreach Service, 247

  border security, 8, 10, 42, 120

  Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013, 8

  Boston, MA, 15, 17, 60, 62, 64, 67, 90–91, 165, 207, 233, 270

  Boston Globe, 67, 165

  Boston Marathon, 15, 62, 90, 233, 270

  Boulder, CO, 134

  Bouvé, Clement L., 38

  Bowling Alone, 64

  Bozell, Brent, 266

  Brandeis, Louis, 26–27

  Brave New World, 4

  Bravo Xiong, 140

  Brawley, Tawana, 163

  Brazil, Brazilians, 54, 73, 88, 164, 171, 226

  Brennan, William, 35–38, 118, 123

  Brewer, Jan, 123–24, 275

  Breyer, Stephen, 180

  “Bridgegate,” 2

  Brin, Sergey, 237

  Britain, British, 28, 37, 51–57, 59–60, 70, 82, 93, 106, 111, 119, 123, 143, 171, 190, 237, 241, 255. See also United Kingdom

  empire of, 57, 82

  Brookhiser, Richard, 54

  Brookings Institution, 41–42, 48, 70

  Brooklyn Supreme Court, 89

  Brooks, Dan, 67

  Brown, Kathleen, 260

  Brown, Michael, 2, 231

  Brune, Michael, 212

  Brunswick, NJ, 74

  Buckalew, Charles, 242

  Bulgaria, 58

  Bulus, Edwin, 251–53

  Bulus, Happy, 251–53

  Bureau of Land Management (BLM), 197

  Burger, Warren, 191

  Burke, Edmund, 59

  Burmeister, Christoffer, 93

  Bush, George H. W., 53, 83

  Bush, George P., 263

  Bush, George W., 3, 11, 33, 53, 71, 125, 178–80, 182, 199, 222, 225, 262–66, 270, 272

  Bush, Jeb, 128, 262, 270, 272–73, 275–76

  Bush, Laura, 272

  C

  California, 8, 26, 28, 34, 38, 48, 62, 67–69, 73–74, 84, 91, 104, 119–20, 127, 129–35, 137, 153, 162, 165–66, 187, 189, 198, 200, 204, 208, 226, 231, 258–62, 271, 280

  California’s Field Poll, 48–49

  Cambodia, Cambodian, 248–49

  Cameroon, Cameroonians, 86

  Camp, Garrett, 239

  Campaign Against Marijuana Planting, 200

  Canada, Canadians, 16, 57, 61, 70, 93, 126, 137, 167, 173, 191, 204, 241, 254

  Cantu, Peter Anthony, 178

  capitalism, 24, 195

  Cardenas, Ruben, 180

  Carlos Slim Foundation, 219

  Carranza, Jose, 109

  Carroll, James, 165–66

  Carson, Emmett, 84

  Carson City, NV, 91

  Carter, Jimmy, 21, 285

  Casarez, Luis, 187

  Casarez, Luis, Jr., 187

  Casey, Bob, 96, 274

  Casey, George, 61

  Castillo, Anjelica, 184. See also “Baby Hope”

  Castro, Ariel, 182

  Castro, Fidel, 21

  Catholic Charities, 14

  Catholic Church, the, 211

  Catholic Legal Immigration Network, 247

  Catholics, Catholicism, 52–53, 59, 61

  Celler, Emanuel, 77–78

  census, the, 27, 69–70, 72–73, 75, 103, 110, 117, 208

  Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), 72

  Centers for Disease Control, 189

  Central America, Central Americans, 10, 125, 166, 207

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 62, 98, 221

  Central Park rapist, the, 183. See also Reyes, Matias

  Centre for Human Rights, 169

  Chaco War, 122

  Chai Soua Vang, 92

  Chamber of Commerce, 274, 277–78

  charity, 14, 64, 171, 177

  Charlotte, NC, 66

  Chattanooga Times Free Press, 149–50

  Chavez, Linda, 225

  Chechnya, Chechens, 61, 90, 190

  Chemehuevi Indians, 208

  Chiapas, Mexico, 203, 219

  Chicago Tribune, 178

  Chiesa, Jeffrey, 43

  China, Chinese, 9, 27–28, 53, 61, 70, 89, 105, 111, 119–20, 238, 248, 273, 275, 290

  Ching Xiong, 140

  Chocola, Chris, 274

  Chow, Ashley, 91

  Christianity, Christians, 53, 55, 83, 193, 229, 248, 254, 258, 263

  Christie, Chris, 2, 128, 226, 273, 276

  Christmas in Connecticut, 60

  churches, 1, 26, 31, 223

  Cillizza, Chris, 262

  Cinco de Mayo, 26–27, 263

  City Paper (Nashville, TN), 145

  civil liberties, 98

  civil rights, 27, 63, 70, 87, 242

  Civil War, the (U.S.), 37, 55, 58, 64

  Clark, Jim, 239

  Clearinghouse for Immigrant Education, 247

  Cleveland National Forest, 198

  Clinton, Bill, 18, 83, 110, 156, 190, 222–24, 246, 263

  Clinton, Hillary, 113, 249

  Clinton administration, 18, 83

  Club for Growth, 274

  CNN, 68, 91, 109, 125, 134, 185, 189, 192

  Coakley, Martha, 7

  Coalition for Immigration Reform, 237

  cocaine, 58, 105, 118

  Cockburn, Alexander, 1

  Cohn, Nate, 258

  College of Idaho, 164

  Collins, Susan, 43, 277

  Colombia, 116, 167, 190, 207

  Colorado, 69, 134–35, 166, 210–11

  Columbia Journalism Review (CJR), 74–75, 216

  Columbia Journal of Gender and the Law, 144

  Communists, 21–22

  “comprehensive immigration reform,” 2–3, 32, 42, 148, 262, 264, 269, 273. See also amnesty

  CompUSA, 217

  Confederates, 55, 86

  Confederation of Somali Community in Minnesota, 86

  Connecticut, 60, 69, 118, 226, 270

  Conseco-Figueroa, Juan Carlos, 172–74

  conservative media, 1

  conservatives, 11, 21, 75, 263, 274–77

  Constitution, 21, 35–37

  Continental Army, the, 55

  Copacabana Beach, 171

  Corderos, Lillian, 223

  Corderos, Victor, 223

  Corker, Bob, 8, 43

  Coronel, Emma, 119

  Craigslist, 229, 239

  Crane, John, Jr., 161

  crime, 3, 21, 24, 33, 52, 54, 65, 76, 89, 94, 99–104, 106, 109–11, 113, 120, 124, 126–28, 130–31, 136, 139, 141, 144, 146–47, 151–53, 159, 161, 165, 171, 175, 177–79, 182–85, 187–92, 199, 235, 246, 256

  Crosby, Bing, 60

  Cruz, Ted, 180, 274–76

  Cuba, Cubans, 6, 21, 38, 105, 116, 147

  Cucamonga Canyon, CA, 209

  Current Population Survey, 72

  Cycle, The, 98

  Czechoslovakia, 61, 105, 137, 241

  D

  Daily Gazette (Schenectady), 154

  Daily Mail (UK), 123, 151

  Dallas Morning News, 254–55

  Danbury, CT, 226

  Darfur, 57

  Davis, Warren K., 154

  Declaration of Independence, 51–53

  Dees, Morris, 211–12

&n
bsp; De La Cruz, Ralph, 254–55

  DeLeon Flores, Ricardo, 108–9

  Delhi, 168–69

  Democratic Party, Democrats, 11, 32, 37, 53, 62–64, 78, 83, 96, 144, 210–11, 224, 231, 234, 272

  immigrants’ support of, 3–4, 6–7, 11, 18–28, 36, 53, 71, 78–79, 85, 98, 137, 145, 153, 159, 161–62, 181–82, 226, 246, 258, 266, 272, 277–78

  position on immigration, 10, 31, 36, 56, 62, 76–77, 120, 128, 193, 245, 247, 259–61, 264, 266

  voter demographics, 17–18, 53, 257–59, 261, 263–64, 266, 278

  Democratic Underground, 206–7

  Denmark, Danish, 14, 105–6, 169, 181, 241

  deportations, deporting, 21, 39, 88, 91, 94, 125, 146, 154, 187–88, 201, 224, 226–27, 240, 246, 267, 274

  as option in polling questions, 11, 41–42, 48–49

  in Israel, 115–16

  Obama and, 3

  self-deporting, 267, 272, 275–77

  Desert Sun (Palm Springs), 206

  Detroit, MI, 134–35

  Dham, Vinod, 238

  Diallo, Amadou, 250–51

  Diallo, Nafissatou, 249–50

  Di Rupo, Elio, 53

  Disraeli, Benjamin, 53

  diversity, 52, 54, 63–64, 67–68, 85, 120

  as a “strength,” 4, 61–62, 66, 198, 260

  immigration numbers and a lack of, 70

  social cohesion and, 51, 64–66

  Dobbs, Lou, 74–75, 109–10

  Dominican Republic, Dominicans, 6, 104–5, 116, 135, 241

  Dondero, Eric, 151–52

  Dong Lu Chen, 89–90

  Dorsey, Jack, 239

  Dow, Paula T., 109

  “Dreamers,” 32, 118, 123

  Dresser, Denise, 217

  Drost, Julia, 172

  drug cartels, 118, 121, 124, 126, 198, 200–1

  Dufrene, Kesler, 91

  Duke lacrosse team, 132, 147–48, 153, 163–64, 170, 221, 231

  Dunham, Lena, 117

  E

  East Anglians, 143–44

  Ebola, 220–21

  Echarri Cánovas, Carlos Javier, 168

  Economist, 217, 261

  economy, the

  of Mexico, 2, 23, 217, 219–20

  of the U.S., 2–3, 46, 113, 199, 218–21, 230, 237–38

  Edwards, John, 71

  Egypt, Egyptian, 97, 120, 170–71, 234, 236

  Einseln, Aleksander, 40

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 42, 53, 125, 262

  El Colegio de Mexico, 168

  Elders, Joycelyn, 190

  Elizabeth, NJ, 73–74

  Ellis Island, 56

  Ellison, Larry, 239

  Ellmers, Renee, 269–70

  El Paso, TX, 68–69, 120, 273

  El Salvador, Salvadorans, 53, 105, 116, 182

  English language, 18–19, 22, 26–27, 41, 44, 48, 53, 55, 68, 79, 91–93, 109, 135, 137, 141, 144, 147, 149, 150, 153, 155, 173, 186, 228, 245, 250–51, 254