By DEXTER DUGGAN
PHOENIX — The liberal Boston Globe’s Sunday, June 14, front page had a prominent photo of a scowling, middle-aged man with the headline, “Don’t take your eyes off this man (or the hundreds like him); They were warned, but federal immigration officials did just that.”
The elusive man was identified as Santos Hernandez Carrera, a knifepoint rapist.
The lengthy story told of immigrant criminals, some but not all of them with Latino names, simply released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) because their home countries wouldn’t take them back.
“They are convicted rapists, child molesters, and kidnappers — among ‘the worst of the worst,’ as one law-enforcement agency put it,” the Globe reporter wrote. “Yet the Globe found that immigration officials have released them without making sure they register with local authorities as sex offenders.”
The Globe quoted a former deputy assistant U.S. attorney general: “These are dangerous and predatory individuals who should not be prowling the streets. In fact, they should not be in the United States at all.”
The newspaper added, “Immigration has even lost track of immigrants they insisted were too dangerous to set free.”
The story didn’t apologize because some ethnic grievance group might be offended by the presentation of these objective facts; it didn’t highlight angry quotations from grievance spokespeople saying the paper was engaged in racial profiling.
It just reported what happens when, readers could conclude, a lax government allows lawbreaking “immigrants” a free rein. A government, readers might think, that should be ashamed of itself.
Instead, this government tries to put its own citizens on the defensive for thinking of their safety and welfare instead of being “welcoming” to any invader who slips in.
A different writer, mentioning the activities of Mexican gangs in Los Angeles, commented in a new book: “We’ve built up no immunity to such complicated crimes, so America is like Disneyland to foreign criminals.”
And who doesn’t like to visit Disneyland, especially when they can walk through the gate without paying admission, do what they please, and stay as long as they want?
This book’s writer didn’t say everyone from elsewhere is a criminal, or should be regarded as such. But it’s crippling to ignore facts that must be faced.
Wherever the criminals come from, they know they’ll find an unlocked door and wide-open opportunities in the United States, a nation prostrated before them by the power of, among others, politicians, media members, business tycoons, and clerics, each with their own special interests.
Criminals entering the U.S. can be of any race or nationality, but the fact there’s a porous border of nearly 2,000 miles with Mexico, and all of Latin America south of there, provides an easier access for that population’s miscreants than, say, that of Turkey or Greece. Even though lawbreaking Turks, Greeks, and others have been known to arrive in Mexico then head north.
Assertive conservative Ann Coulter — she who thought Mitt Romney would be a winning GOP presidential nominee — is author of the new book with the quotation about America as Disneyland for criminals. It’s Adios, America! (Regnery Publishing, 2015, 392 pages, $27.99). There are an impressive 88 pages of endnotes.
Despite the title, Coulter writes of the massive damage from unchecked immigration from all over, not only Spanish-speaking areas.
Syndicated radio talk host Dennis Prager had Coulter as a guest on his June 3 program for an extended interview, not just a few quick questions. Prager, hardly a race-fixated radical, said he loved Adios, America! and recommended that everyone read it, whether they’re on the left or right.
Cultural differences fascinate Prager, and he mentioned the different worldview evidenced by most Mexican states having set the age of sexual consent at 12 years. Coulter replied about how that’s affecting U.S. culture.
An even more striking comparison would be to ask U.S. citizens if they think it would be right for 20 million or more of them to shove into Mexico illegally, demand to stay, and expect the Mexican government to indulge or even facilitate their presence, with bishops and media cheering on the Yanquis.
Yet that’s the expectation, in reverse, cultivated in northbound Latinos by the open-borders elite on both sides of the international line.
Coulter repeatedly makes the point that many immigrants who come to the U.S. expect this nation to adapt itself to them, even if they’re violent illegals. Those of us who live in Arizona know that experience.
The open-borders establishment here simply shrugs off that armed Mexican drug cartels operate within the Grand Canyon State.
Five years ago the federal government posted warning signs along Interstate 8, the major highway heading from the Phoenix and Tucson metropolitan areas to San Diego. The signs cautioned about drug- and human-smugglers being armed and traveling at high rates of speed.
Rather than motorists being assured that U.S. government troops would protect them from such dangers until the area was cleared of the lawbreakers, drivers simply were told to be careful.
Imagine walking into a bank and seeing signs just saying to watch out for armed robbers. But we Southwesterners are expected to do our everyday business under such a U.S. government lording it over our lives.
Dangerous Blazes
Less than an hour’s drive from my Phoenix home, I’ve seen trash scattered through the desert, a few minutes off I-8, left behind by illegal aliens at a pick-up point. The Border Patrol doesn’t dare come in here at night, my tour guide said.
Four years ago, famously open-borders U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona simply acknowledged that illegal immigrants start fires that can lead to big, dangerous blazes. Sometimes the illegals are trying to distract attention from their own presence.
That wasn’t news to border residents. But dominant media quickly pummeled their beloved McCain as a raving racist. Five months later, the Government Accountability Office said an investigation revealed McCain was correct.
I’d lived in the Phoenix area for decades but never heard from the local media about “rape trees,” then I talked to a border resident. She told how the trees are decorated with females’ undergarments as trophies of border-smugglers’ sexual conquests. Women are told to take contraceptives before trying to enter the U.S.
As the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops promotes massive illegal immigration, one wonders how often Catholic bureaucrats are challenged about the way this leads to sexual violence.
What happens in the Southwest doesn’t stay in the Southwest. As the entire United States is seeing by now.
Reading Coulter’s book is time well spent. I made a full six and a half pages of notes, on everything from how Justice William Brennan invented “anchor babies” to how current immigration is making us a less diverse nation, to how much of Mexico’s population already has been sent here — with no end in sight. Also, how a fence works for Israel, and how beheadings south of the border must make ISIS green with envy.
One can only wonder how a nation with legal immigration as generous as ours is raked over the coals every day as a vicious, bigoted land. That accusation isn’t meant to shed light but only pump in venom.
The fact also must be confronted that the U.S. can’t be the emergency room for the entire world. The generous God never designed this globe to have only one productive, hospitable nation, nor only one people to have their pockets picked by everyone else.
Those who shirk their responsibility to build up their native lands, even though they may face some hard work, will be as accountable before God for their negligence as the rest of us for our sins.
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