"The Late Great USA - The coming merger with Mexico and Canada"
by Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D.
"State of Emergency. The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America"
by Patrick J. Buchanan
"Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders"
by Jim Gilchrist and Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D.
"In Mortal Danger"
by Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Colorado), and 2008 Presidential candidate
"Fighting Immigration Anarchy: American Patriots Battle to Save the Nation"
by Daniel Sheehy
"Whatever It Takes: Illegal Immigration, Border Security, and the War on Terror"
by former Congressman J.D. Hayworth (R-Arizona)
"Illegals: The Immiment Threat Posed by our Unsecured U.S.-Mexico Border"
by Jon E. Dougherty
"Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores"
by Michelle Malkin
THE LATE GREAT USA
The coming merger with Mexico and Canada
by Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D.
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In The Late Great USA, Corsi proves that the benignly-named "Security and Prosperity Partnership," created at a meeting between George W. Bush, Paul Martin and Vincente Fox, is in fact the same kind of regional integration plan that led Europe to form the EU. According to Corsi, the elites in Europe who wanted to create a European nation knew that "it would be necessary to conceal from the peoples of Europe just what was being done in their name until the process was so far advanced that it had become irreversible." Could the same thing be happening here? Is American sovereignty doomed?
Using dozens of documents secured through the Freedom of Information Act and his trademark hard-hitting interviews, Jerome Corsi sets out a chilling view of America's possible "harmonized" future -- one being created covertly, without voter input or Congressional oversight. Could our government's unfathomable position on illegal immigration be tied to the prospect of an integrated North American Union?
“The Late Great U.S.A. is a real winner that sounds a clarion call to this nation. This book uncovers the careful deceptions of a powerful elite who want to undermine our sovereignty before we realize it. I consider this a must read for every American.”
- Hal Lindsey, Best-selling author of The Late Great Planet Earth
”Dr. Corsi has ‘connected the dots' between the Security and Prosperity Partnership, the sale of toll roads and other infrastructure to foreign companies, and proposals for a North American Union with open borders between Mexico, the U.S., and Canada. The Late Great U.S.A. is an essential read for anyone concerned about the future independence and sovereignty of the United States.”
-Phyllis Schlafly, President, Eagle Forum
STATE OF EMERGENCY
The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Civilizations die by suicide, not murder, says Patrick Buchanan, and liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide. Its ideas, pursued to their logical end, will prove fatal. And none of those ideas is as certain to bring our civilization to an unhappy end as the proposition that America's borders must be open to any and all comers, legal and illegal. In State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, Buchanan explains why the very life of our nation is at stake in the immigration debate. If immigration and border controls aren't reintroduced, it will be the end of America as we know it -- and soon.
Buchanan explains why the massive influx of illegal immigrants into America is nothing less than an invasion -- and yet the Bush White House and GOP-controlled Congress appear disinclined to do anything about it. He details how our current policy of "open borders" and nearly unrestricted immigration have brought a stream of criminals and thugs into our nation -- for the benefit only of an entrenched political establishment that couldn't care less about the good of the American people. He explodes myth after myth about illegal immigration -- including President Bush's notorious statement that illegal aliens "do jobs Americans won't do" and the idea that foreigners somehow have a natural right to come to America.
Nor will all this be an easy problem to solve. Buchanan demonstrates that any presidential candidate who speaks out against the Hispanic onslaught in the American Southwest will now lose the electoral votes of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Soon, electoral realities will make it impossible for any serious candidate to speak out against unrestrained immigration. Yet, he points out, if it wanted to, the U.S. Government could secure the Mexican border within weeks -- and details the political reasons why this won't happen, despite the fact that immigration control measures have consistently won large margins of support from American voters.
State of Emergency also lays bare the roots of our immigration crisis, providing a capsule history of U.S.-Mexican relations and explaining Mexico's long-standing grudge against the United States. Buchanan exposes the long-term goals of radical Mexican and Chicano groups that want to erase not only American sovereignty over the Southwest, but also American sovereignty altogether. He warns against the balkanization and tribalism that threaten our future as a nation, and, for those who have forgotten (and there are many), he gets back to basics -- explaining what a nation actually is and should be.
America, says Buchanan, could soon be facing its last chance to stave off national suicide. In State of Emergency, he provides a comprehensive primer for all politicians, activists, and concerned citizens who want to stop the flood of immigration before it's too late.
MINUTEMEN:
The Battle to Secure America's Borders
by Jim Gilchrist and Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D.
"On 9/11 Jim Gilchrist watched in agony as thousands of Americans were slaughtered... If immigration laws had simply been enforced, the lives lost that day might have been spared. America was at war abroad because her borders had been made irrelevant at home. On 9/11 it became clear that Jim Gilchrist's nation needed him, and he answered the call – just as he had in Vietnam..."
— from Minutemen .
Called "vigilantes" by President Bush - but cheered on by millions of Americans concerned over decades of uncontrolled illegal immigration - the all-volunteer Minuteman Project was founded in 2004 by decorated Marine veteran Jim Gilchrist. Armed with only binoculars and cell phones, Gilchrist and his fellow patriots proved that America's porous borders could be successfully guarded, and in the process set off a national debate on an issue the Federal government had long ignored.
Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders is a first-hand account from the frontlines, and what it says will shock you. Jim Gilchrist teams up with Jerome Corsi, the co-author of Unfit for Command -- the book that derailed John Kerry's presidential campaign -- to describe in vivid detail how the nation's southern border has disintegrated into a Wild West of human trafficking, drug smuggling, and violent gangs.
But the threat posed by out-of-control illegal immigration extends beyond the border states to the whole republic, warn Gilchrist and Corsi. Readers of this disturbing and timely book will learn how:
With anti-American protestors taking to the streets to demand citizenship for all illegals, and with the President of the United States himself endorsing open borders, it has never been more critical for American citizens to understand the massive social, economic and security problems caused by illegal immigration. Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders describes those problems with a refreshing combination of facts and straight talk.
Like their Revolutionary War predecessors who defended America against a hostile foreign power, today's Minutemen have risen up to answer their nation's call against another invasion. Minutemen is their story, as well as an urgent call to arms to all of their countrymen.
Forward by Congressman Tom Tancredo
About the Authors:
JIM GILCHRIST founded the volunteer Minuteman Project in 2004. He is a Marine Corps veteran and received the Purple Heart award for wounds sustained while serving in Vietnam.
A former reporter and CPA, Gilchrist lives with his wife in Southern California—Ground Zero in the battle to secure America's borders.
JEROME R. CORSI is the author of Atomic Iran and the coauthor of Black Gold Stranglehold and the New York Times bestseller Unfit for Command. The author of many articles and books and a Harvard Ph.D., he lives in New Jersey
IN MORTAL DANGER
The Battle for America's Border and Security
by Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Colorado), and 2008 Presidential candidate
Many Americans were shocked by the rhetoric and demands voiced during the immigration protests in the Spring of 2006 and most recently, in the Spring of 2007. From Los Angeles to Atlanta, from Phoenix to Chicago, an estimated two million protesters marched in more than fifty cities. They demanded a blanket amnesty for illegal aliens under the banner of "immigrant rights" and insisted that rights now afforded legal immigrants should be granted to those here illegally. Anything short of that was condemned as "racist."
How could the United States have come to such a pitiful condition?
Congressman Tom Tancredo has been the only consistent voice in our government warning Americans of the dangers of failing to secure our borders and fix the nation's immigration system. Five years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, the U.S. government still has done virtually nothing to secure America's borders. The government largely ignores the threats to our safety and sovereignty resulting from its refusal to fix a broken system.
What is happening on our borders is one story, but what is happening within America is even more disturbing. As would-be terrorists plot attacks on our country, vocal advocates of multiculturalism are sapping our strength from within. Together, they form a potent adversary that is as great a threat to our nation as anything we have faced in our history.
As a result, America is in the midst of an identity crisis. As a nation we no longer seem to know who we are or what we believe. Instead of "one nation under God," we are divided, confused, and angry. We need to understand how this has happened and the underlying causes that have led us to this divided point.
Tom Tancredo lays out the case that unless the United States changes course, it is headed toward catastrophe. Like the great and mighty empires of the past—"superpowers" that once stretched from horizon to horizon—America is heading down the road to ruin. Without strong moral leadership, without a renewed sense of purpose, without a rededication to family and community, without shunning the race hustlers and pop-culture sham artists, without protecting our borders, language, and culture, the nation that was once the "land of the free and home of the brave" and the "one last hope of mankind" will repeat the catastrophic mistakes of the past. In Mortal Danger is his prescription for beginning to repair the damage.
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The Barbarians Are Past The Gate
Testifying before Congress in 2005, FBI director Robert Mueller Jr. revealed that his agency had “received reports that individuals from countries with known al Qaeda connections have attempted to enter the United States illegally using alien smuggling rings and assuming Hispanic appearances.” Mueller confirmed that the FBI suspected many of these people had changed their Islamic surnames and had adopted false Hispanic identities in order to escape detection and blend into American society.
Additionally, Richard Clark, the counterterrorism czar who worked in both the Clinton and Bush administrations, disclosed, “Of the 17,000 people who are missing in the United States somewhere, some are from countries of concern, and could be known terrorists. We really have no way of knowing who they are.”
After the September 11, 2001 attacks, U.S. Border Patrol agents experienced an increase in apprehending so-called special-interest aliens (SIAs) trying to sneak into this country from nations that we know support or tolerate terrorism. In 2003, the Border Patrol snagged about 39,000 illegal immigrants from countries “other than Mexico” (OTM), which includes SIA nations. By the end of 2005, that number had grown to 155,000, more than double the 76,000 apprehended in 2004.
Evidence of terrorists in our midst does not stop there. U.S. and Mexican authorities are well aware of suspected training camps, one of them near Matamoros, Mexico, a few miles across the Rio Grande and south of Brownsville, Texas. There are reports that a large number of people are being trained in paramilitary warfare and exotic explosives in these camps, which are operated by the Zetas, a group of former Mexican military special forces troops who deserted in the mid-1990s to work as highly effective enforcers for the drug cartels. The FBI believes that such paramilitary organizations working in partnership with the drug cartels have the networks and the capacity to smuggle terrorists and weapons into the United States as easily as they smuggle drugs and people seeking jobs. Texas and federal law-enforcement agencies believe these paramilitary forces have been monitoring and evaluating U.S. law-enforcement operations along the Rio Grande.
What raises suspicions even more among law-enforcement officials is that the training camps are frequented by a variety of ethnic groups, including Arab and Asian nationals. Since 9/11, Mexican authorities have reportedly apprehended hundreds of individuals with suspected terrorist ties in the border region. Sometimes the suspected terrorists are held in Mexico, and sometimes they are turned over to local U.S. authorities because federal officials will not accept custody. Most local law-enforcement agencies eventually turn them over to the FBI, but they never hear what happens to them.
Evidence of terrorist infiltration has led one retired federal agent—who is too nervous to talk about it publicly—to speculate that, for years, terrorists have been exploiting our porous Mexican and Canadian borders to bring explosives into this country. The former agent says he believes the explosives are designed to be detonated simultaneously in all parts of the United States.
In March 2006, FBI director Robert Mueller Jr. told a House appropriations subcommittee hearing that the FBI had broken up a smuggling ring organized by the terrorist group Hezbollah that had operatives cross the Mexican border to carry out possible terrorist attacks inside the United States. “This was an occasion in which Hezbollah operatives were assisting others with some association with Hezbollah in coming to the United States,” Mueller told the subcommittee. He also testified that the organization had been “dismantled” and the FBI had identified the individuals who had been smuggled into the country.
Two things are striking about this latest FBI admission. First, we only learned of this event as an item in the FBI's annual report to the House appropriations subcommittee that controls funding for the bureau. The FBI did not inform the Congress or the American public about Hezbollah's activities in Mexico at the time they were uncovered and disrupted. No public announcement was made by the FBI. Instead, the news was buried in routine testimony. The second interesting facet of this statement is that it was not considered “newsworthy” by the mainline news media, so most Americans are still unaware that there are active Hezbollah cells in Mexico within a day's drive of our porous border.
MS-13, the Zetas, and the Unknown
As my colleague and friend Charles Heatherly and I sat in a booth in a hotel restaurant waiting to meet with an informant, we wondered about the information he was bringing us. It turned out to be everything we could have hoped for. I cannot say much more about him. Suffice it to say, he was a former law-enforcement officer who wanted someone to know what he had come across in the years he had spent in the profession.
He began by telling us about Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13 as it is commonly referred to. At that time, few had ever heard the name. That has since changed. The FBI has set up a unit devoted solely to this criminal gang.
Mara Salvatrucha is one of the most violent and bloodthirsty gangs ever to prey on our society. Originating in Los Angeles in the 1980s, the gang was founded by Salvadorans fleeing a civil war. The displaced Salvadorans found themselves settling in the poorest neighborhoods, unemployed, and disliked by other Hispanics. Its original members came from the leftist insurgent forces that opposed the Salvadoran government in the 1980s. Members were trained in firearms, explosives, and booby traps. Considered one of the fastest growing gangs in the United States, MS-13 not only has a large presence in Los Angeles but also in Canada, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and more than thirty U.S. states.
Most of MS-13's tens of thousands of members in the United States are illegal aliens. They are a huge problem in northern Virginia, where their calling cards are dismembered limbs that were severed by machetes. MS-13 is heavily involved in drug trafficking, human trafficking, assaults, homicide, robbery, extortion, turf battles, drive-by shootings, and exporting stolen cars to El Salvador. Additionally, MS-13 maintains links to other gangs in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
Tattoos indicate both gang membership and one's area of responsibility. For instance, a dragon tattoo indicates the individual is involved in smuggling immigrants into the country. These dragones transport their human cargo from El Salvador through Mexico by train. Conductors and railroad officials are bribed to facilitate the mission. At some point, the cargo is transferred to vehicles to better penetrate the U.S. border. The routes are spotted with safe houses along the route to ensure their success. And make no mistake, they are highly successful in delivering their cargo.
Numerous media reports have featured intelligence officials' warnings of a connection between MS-13 and al Qaeda. In July 2004, reports surfaced of an al Qaeda figure meeting with MS-13 in Honduras in order to secure entry routes into the United States. Reports also surfaced that, during the summer of 2004, Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr was possibly in contact with MS-13 and/or the Farabundo Matri National Liberation Front (FMNL) in an attempt to get them to commit terrorist acts in El Salvador with the hope of forcing that government to withdraw its support for U.S. efforts in Iraq. The FBI will not comment on these reports.
Our informant also told us about the corruption that is spreading throughout the United States that is linked to Mexican-based drug cartels and the Mexican mafia. To interested observers within the law-enforcement community, there seems to be a pattern of corruption in which these cartels are buying influence and seeking comfort within U.S. cities. Like so many stories involving illegal immigration and drug smuggling, this story begins in Southern California.
The Tijuana-based Felix drug cartel and the Juarez-based Fuentes cartel began buying legitimate businesses in small towns in Los Angeles County in the early 1990s. They purchased restaurants, used-car lots, auto-body shops, and other small businesses. One of their purposes was to use these businesses for money-laundering operations. Once established in their community, these cartel-financed business owners ran for city council and other local offices. Over time they were able to buy votes and influence in an effort to take over the management of the town. They wanted to create a comfort zone from which they could operate without interference from local law enforcement.
In the small suburban city of Bell Gardens in central L.A. County, there was an effort to shut down the police department. City officials who would not cooperate with the Mexican-born city manager were forced out of office. Eventually, the L.A. County attorney's office moved in, and the city manager was prosecuted on charges of corruption. Unfortunately, Bell Gardens was only the tip of the iceberg. Other Los Angeles suburbs—including Huntington Park, Lynwood, and Southgate—became targets for the cartels.
The corruption spreading from south of the border is not confined to Southern California. In Cameron County, Texas, the former sheriff and several other officials were recently convicted of receiving drug-smuggling bribes. In Douglas, Arizona—where the international border runs down the middle of the town and divides it from its sister city of Agua Prieta, Mexico—the mayor's brother was discovered to have a tunnel from one of his rental properties going into Mexico.
The sad story of drugs and our porous borders doesn't end here, because no discussion of the problem is complete without recounting the story of the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation in Arizona, which shares just a tiny fraction—seventy-one miles—of the nearly two-thousand-mile U.S. border with Mexico. Homes burglarized by illegals, deadly car wrecks caused by reckless smugglers, drug runners brandishing weapons as they demand help from the local people—all of this happens daily on the reservation. The reservation is the scene of one of the major drug corridors between the United States and Mexico. In 2002, tribal police seized 65,000 pounds of narcotics. During the first four months of 2003, tribal police reported seizing 33,000 pounds of marijuana and discovered 1,877 vehicles abandoned by smugglers. One of the busiest smuggling routes through the reservation begins about twenty-five miles to the west, where taxis finish a fifteen-minute run from Sonoyta, Mexico, by dropping off their passengers at a flimsy border fence.
Tohono O'odham children are being taken into the drug cartels, sometimes forcibly but oftentimes joining in for the money. On a visit to the reservation, I saw five-year-old children stumbling around stoned. Their parents are going crazy; they don't know what to do. They can't deal with the fact that they have been invaded.
The War on Terror Comes to Our Backyard
Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez Jr. of Zapata County, Texas, sees the sixty miles of border his deputies patrol as a front line in the war on terror. He says the biggest fear they face is that smugglers will bring terrorists and dirty bombs into the country through his county.
In November 2005, he told a conference in San Antonio that it was not a matter of if, but when a terrorist will enter the United States through Mexico with a dirty bomb or some other portable weapon of mass destruction. “We tried everything we know, with little success, to make the federal government aware of the problems we face and how they have affected us. The creation of the Department of Homeland Security has done nothing to help us,” he concluded.
Gonzalez has given credit to federal officials, however, for warning him that al Qaeda terrorists were looking to use smugglers, including the brutal MS-13 gang, to bring terror operatives across the border. “If smugglers can bring a hundred people or 2,000 pounds of marijuana into the United States, how simple would it be to bring terrorists into this country, or a suitcase loaded with a dirty bomb? I am very surprised it hasn't happened,” he told a newspaper.
Gonzalez's frustration over the lack of cooperation from the Border Patrol was evident when Zapata County deputies responded to a rancher's report of people in black attire crossing his land late one night. The sheriff's department knew the rancher to be a solid, stable sort who would not concoct such a story, so deputies took up position on his land and waited. Around 9:00 p.m. one night they heard the footsteps of people marching in cadence. With the aid of night-vision equipment, they saw a group of approximately thirty men dressed in black and marching in twos. The first two men and the last two carried automatic weapons while the rest lugged large duffel bags between them. Since the deputies were outnumbered and outgunned, they quietly observed. As soon as they could, they reported to the sheriff in an attempt to get assistance from the Border Patrol. When the armed group moved toward a light in the distance near a paved road, the deputies withdrew.
Later, the sheriff learned that nineteen of the men had been apprehended. When he asked about their disposition, he was stunned to learn that they had almost immediately been returned to Mexico. Even worse, after reviewing pictures taken of the nineteen men, it was determined that one of them was one of the original thirty-one Zetas. Los Zetas is known for its heavy weaponry—AK-47 and AR-15 assault rifles—and its ties to drug trafficking, assassinations, kidnappings, and murders throughout Mexico. Follow-up inquiries yielded nothing. One can only speculate if corrupt officials, who are so pervasive on the border, were responsible for the return of these people to Mexico.
Other border authorities have filed reports of similar groups. In Jim Hogg County, Texas, Sheriff Erasmo Alarcon Jr., in a letter published in the local newspaper in the spring of 2003, warned of unidentified armed men dressed in military fatigues who had been spotted a number of times by area citizens and ranchers. The sheriff said that witnesses had described the men as wearing “professional-looking” backpacks and walking in military cadence.
In another Tex-Mex border county, a sheriff's department said deputies discovered a large metal container that had washed ashore from the Rio Grande. The container held several cylinders, each filled with papers covered with Arabic writing. This finding, among other evidence, is part of the reason why another Texas sheriff has prepared a training CD for the Border Patrol and other officers and agents working in the area. The CD features a picture of Osama bin Laden and urges officers and agents “to stop looking for him and start looking at the mega-drug cartels running rampant south of the border.”
Terrorists Among Us
In December 2005, the Department of Homeland Security sent word that authorities had arrested dozens of terrorist operatives who were already inside the country. While the total number of suspects was unknown, officials reported at least fifty-one people from countries known to support terrorist activities or harbor terrorist sympathies— Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, and Syria—had been intercepted by the Border Patrol and other members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) since the unit began tracking such arrests a little more than a year before. These suspected illegal-alien terrorists had been apprehended for a wide variety of charges, including weapons smuggling and illegally wiring large sums of money into the country.
Though I had sought the information for some time, the December 2005 JTTF report was the first I'd seen that provided hard figures regarding suspected terrorists arrested inside the United States. It served as an admission of sorts by the government that there is a problem with terrorist infiltration. Prior to the report's release, much of the evidence had been anecdotal.
In August 2005, a Rand Corporation analysis stated that the United States was likely to be the next country that would experience suicide bombings similar to those carried out in London against mass-transit targets the month before. At about the time this report was released, federal, state, and local officials, along with a number of U.S. civilians, were discovering additional evidence of a terrorist presence in the country. Items such as discarded beverage boxes with Arabic writing, a jacket with a patch depicting an airliner flying into a tall building followed by the words “Midnight Mission,” and other clothing, including an Arab military patch, proved this possible terrorist presence.
In November 2005, Texas congressman John Culberson released information that an Iraqi with ties to al Qaeda and on the terrorist watch list had been arrested and detained at the border. This apprehension, of course, fueled concern from several elected officials. “Remember that for every illegal border crosser caught at least another three make it in,” argued Arizona congressman J. D. Hayworth. “We are playing a dangerous game of Russian roulette, and the longer we resist securing our border and enforcing our immigration laws, the more likely a terrorist incident becomes.”
If this incident isn't a wake-up call, I don't know what is. What scares me is not that list from federal law enforcement—after all, we've already caught those terrorists. What scares me is the potentially hundreds of terrorists who make their way through our porous borders each year and go undetected. Where are they? What are they planning? Where are they planning to strike? When? How many are there? How rough do the seas have to get before we know the storm is about to engulf us?
Mr. Tancredo represents the 6th District of Colorado, and is a 2008 Presidential candidate. He was founder of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus and author of " In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America's Border and Security ."
This book is a warning for all Americans of the chaos spreading rapidly from the southwestern border zone to every corner of the nation. In its wake have come massive job displacement for American workers, increased crime, schools overwhelmed by non-English-speaking students, and bankrupt hospitals. And these newcomers have not come to join the American community through assimilation, as did legal immigrants in the past, demanding instead that we change our culture to fit them.
Fighting Immigration Anarchy: American Patriots Battle to Save the Nation is a frightening alarm of the ethnic disorder and financial breakdown that are created by the corrupt political, business, and media elites pursuing a globalist agenda. But the book also provides hope that America can be preserved as a unique nation under the rule of law. The tales of individual citizens seizing the initiative to do the job Washington won’t — protect the country from foreign invasion — are both an inspiration and a playbook. In the spirit of 1776, dedicated patriots show how it’s done, and prove that individual courage still matters.
Chapter One
A Stranger in My
Own Country
In 1964, southern California was paradise for many people, including me. That was the year I moved to the Golden State from Maryland with my parents and brother. I was 12 years old. It also was the year before Congress decided to open its door to mass immigration.
My dad had been transferred to a new aerospace company in Canoga Park, which is located at the western end of the sprawling San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County. The Valley was mostly middle-class Americans at that time.
We bought a house in a new development in Canoga Park near the rocky Santa Susanna Mountains and just a few miles from the pass leading into the Simi Valley. Many Hollywood westerns were shot on those locations. Our small development was nearly surrounded by orange groves, open spaces, and movie ranches, where TV series such as “Lassie” were filmed.
Canoga Park was so peaceful we didn’t lock our house or car doors. California schools, including my junior high, were the envy of the nation. I remember learning to ride horses with my dad at a ranch in nearby Chatsworth, a mostly rural area back then. I remember our family driving on surface streets and freeways, where there was no gridlock, to Hollywood to see movies at famous Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. And I remember us driving up to central California to vacation at one of our nation’s natural wonders, the Sequoia National Park. Those are some of my memories.
But my dad lost his job in layoffs at his company and we ended up moving back to our birthplace, Binghamton, New York, in 1968. I was heartbroken and dreamed of returning to sunny southern California.
That day finally came 20 years later in 1988 when I left my position as media relations manager for United Airlines in Chicago and moved to the Los Angeles area to manage corporate communications for United’s Mileage Plus subsidiary. I was thrilled to be back in the Golden State.
A Flood of Immigrants
However, southern California was not the place I remembered fondly. Because of massive legal and illegal immigration, the population was exploding. The immigration boom was also occurring in other states, but California was impacted the most.
Millions of poor and uneducated people from south of the border, mostly Mexicans, had flooded into California and other states to seek jobs and take advantage of free social services. The nearly three million illegal aliens amnestied by Congress and President Reagan in 1986 encouraged millions more to come illegally. People also were pouring in from other parts of the world.
I remember half joking with my buddies Bob and Rico that Americans seemed to be disappearing. In fact, they were disappearing. Thousands of native-born Americans were leaving the Golden State because the California they grew up in was becoming another country, and the quality of life was deteriorating.1
Initially I did not comprehend all of the consequences. But as the years passed, those consequences were becoming clearer as the Los Angeles area increasingly resembled a Third World city.
I was especially angry about illegal immigration because it wasn’t fair to native-born American citizens or legal immigrants. And illegal immigration is illegal. I sometimes asked friends, some of whom disagreed with my views, suppose the roles were reversed and millions of poor Americans invaded Mexico. How would Mexicans feel and what would they do? However, I rarely expressed these common-sense thoughts out loud for fear of being called a racist, even though my concerns were about the rule of law, the effects of overpopulation, and the American way of life. “Political correctness,” a nice term for censorship, silenced many Americans then as it does today.
In 1994, like millions of other Californians, including majorities of whites, blacks, and Asians, and 30 percent of Hispanics, I voted in favor of ballot measure Proposition 187. The initiative would have denied most social services to illegal aliens and eliminated a magnet for people to enter the state unlawfully. The measure passed overwhelmingly. Then pro-illegal alien groups set out to overturn the will of the voters through lawsuits and legal delays. Several years later Gov. Gray Davis killed the proposition in a backroom deal with open-borders politicians and organizations, angering Californians. The proposition was never enacted, and the invasion and quality of life continued to worsen.
By the late 1990s, Californians were increasingly fed up with the immigrant tidal wave. In the worst affected areas, some stayed home to escape the constant traffic gridlock or to avoid communication barriers as foreign languages, mostly Spanish, were becoming more prevalent than English. And, shockingly, many foreigners were arrogant toward Americans, with no regard for American interests or culture.
Awakening After 9/11
However, it took the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to fully awaken Americans to an immigration crisis and our federal government’s failure to protect us. Since the 9/11 hijackers broke U.S. immigration laws, the effects of rising immigration and porous borders begged for our attention.2 Websites, talk-radio, cable TV shows, and books discussed the issues. Community meetings focused on the problems. Here, I came to know the people featured in this book, as well as many others in the growing movement fighting to end illegal immigration, re-establish national borders and bring common sense back to immigration.
These knowledgeable and patriotic Americans exposed the root cause of symptoms addressed in newspapers and news broadcasts: mass immigration. For years Congress has been deliberately importing millions of foreigners legally and illegally to drive down wages in America and gain new voters. Well-funded and politically powerful pro-illegal-alien organizations in America gained political influences. The Mexican activists’ agenda, led in part by U.S. elected officials, sought to re-conquer the Southwestern United States for Mexico through uncontrolled immigration. And, mega corporations aided the immigrant flood to achieve the globalists’ goal of a new world order of erased borders, increased corporate power, and decreased individual rights.
Our elected officials created this disaster, voted to provide numerous incentives that encourage more immigration, favored aliens over American citizens, and taxed citizens to pay for all of it. The media deceived Americans about immigration and pushed the open-borders agenda. We were collectively duped and betrayed.
From Paradise to Third World
And what about the California I remember from my youth? It no longer exists. The once golden state is many billions of dollars in debt. Most of the Los Angeles region has gone from paradise to Third World and become a Mexican colony surrounded by affluent gated communities. Much of this cultural transformation has occurred since 1988, two years after the federal government’s ill-advised amnesty triggered a nonstop flood of people mostly from Mexico.
In the 1960s, there were six million residents in Los Angeles County. Today that number has climbed to a staggering and unmanageable 10 million. California’s population jumped by more than five million people between 1994 and 2004 to more than 36 million. Virtually 100 percent of the population growth for both California and L.A. is from illegal aliens, legal immigrants, and children born to them.3
While local TV news anchors eagerly report on the latest celebrity trial, cosmetic surgery procedure, or movie blockbuster, the Los Angeles area is crumbling under the immigration-driven population explosion and importation of massive poverty. The region has officially become America’s poverty capital4 and has the worst traffic in the nation.5 Housing costs are the least affordable in the U.S.6 The area has officially become the gang capital of the world, with at least 80,000 members.7 Illegal-alien gangsters terrorize neighborhoods and commit virtually all of the murders in the region. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants are for illegal aliens.8 Public schools, hospitals, and jails are overwhelmed, thus draining taxpayer resources. Schools have gone from best to worst in the nation, with more than 60 percent of Hispanic students dropping out of high school, the highest of any group.9 Nevertheless, dozens of schools are being built, at a cost of billions of dollars to taxpayers, to accommodate illegal aliens and their children.10 Violence between Hispanics and American citizens occurs regularly in the schools.11 Hospitals become bankrupt and close every few months because countless uninsured illegals use emergency rooms for everything from primary care to birthing services and actual emergencies.12 More than two-thirds of the births are to illegal aliens, mostly Mexicans.13 Fifty-three percent of Los Angeles County workers aged 16 and older can barely read, write, or speak English.14 Thousands of aliens loiter on street corners and in parking lots every day hoping for employers to pick them up and take them to work sites.
Dozens of languages are spoken in the L.A. region,15 but Spanish is the predominant foreign language. Signs in stores, gas stations, restaurants, hospitals, and government offices are printed in Spanish as well as English. Many highway billboards and ads on mass transit buses are completely in Spanish. Voter ballots and state driving manuals are printed in multiple languages at taxpayer expense. It is becoming increasingly difficult to find English-speaking stations on the radio dial among the many foreign-language stations, mostly Spanish. Employers increasingly require job applicants to speak Spanish in addition to English.
Los Angeles looks more like Mexico every day. In many areas of the region, discarded furniture and trash are piled up in front of houses and apartment buildings. Mexicans push carts on sidewalks selling food. Teenage Mexican mothers push baby carriages, sometimes with one or more toddlers trotting alongside. Houses and storefronts look like the ramshackle ones in Tijuana. Dozens of aliens are crammed into single-family homes and apartments. The Mexican flag hangs from the front porches of many properties. Canoga Park, where I lived safely as a teenager, is now home to some of the San Fernando Valley’s most notorious Mexican gangs. My junior high has mostly Hispanic students. Chatsworth, the rural area where I learned to ride horses with my dad, is now swallowed by the Los Angeles sprawl, like the rest of the region. Hollywood is no longer an American city. In the once pristine Sequoia National Park, where I vacationed in the 1960s, international drug cartels have taken over large remote areas. The criminal gangs grow marijuana and protect their fields with AK-47s, handguns, and machetes, using illegal aliens from Mexico.16
As a result of these cataclysmic changes, I feel like a stranger in my own country. California has become Mexifornia and Los Angeles has become its capital.
Marxist Revolutionaries Rally
On Sept. 20, 2003, the “Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride” rally started a trek across the nation from Los Angeles City Hall. The event marked the send-off for “activists taking part in a campaign based on the civil rights bus rides of the 1960s,” the Los Angeles Times reported.17 L.A. was one of nine cities sending buses filled with “immigrants” to Washington. “Supporters are calling for legalization for the nation’s estimated 10 million illegal immigrants, a clear path for them to become U.S. citizens and quicker procedures to reunify families,” the Times said. In truth, organizers demanded much more, including driver’s licenses, in-state tuition benefits, general public assistance, and open borders.
Organizers said the campaign was supported by a coalition of labor unions, religious groups, and civil rights activists. In fact, the campaign was organized by many radical groups such as the Communist Party USA, the Center for Marxist Education, the National Lawyers Guild (a legal front for the Communist Party), the National Council of La Raza (a leftist Hispanic lobby for “the race”), and MEChA (a group active on university and high school campuses calling for a Hispanic homeland — “Aztlan” — made up of our Southwestern states).18
The Los Angeles Times called the spectacle a “boisterous crowd waving orange balloons, American flags, and union banners.” But what I saw and heard that morning at city hall with my friends Paul, a physicist, and Edward, a college history instructor, was alarming. On the lawn of our government building were hundreds of illegal aliens angrily demanding all the rights of American citizens. Demonstrators were carrying flags of Mexico, banners calling for open borders, and publications advocating socialism and communism.
The rally featured a parade of opportunistic labor organizers, religious leaders, and elected officials, including Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn and city council members. While this scene was unfolding, dozens of L.A. police officers were idly standing by in small groups quietly talking with one another. Our elected officials and law officers, all paid by American taxpayers to enforce our laws and protect us, were publicly aiding and abetting hundreds of criminal alien invaders with Marxist overtures to overthrow the American government.
After Mayor Hahn and other city officials spoke, Hispanic organizers screamed into the microphone in Spanish, calling for “rights” for the “immigrants” and open borders. The hundreds of invaders fervently chanted back in Spanish while pumping their fists into the air. The noise was thunderous. It resembled a Hollywood portrayal of a South American revolution. But this pro-communist revolutionary activity was real and happening in the United States.
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WHATEVER IT TAKES
Illegal Immigration, Border Security, and the War on Terror
by former Congressman J.D. Hayworth (R-Arizona)
What do we need to do to regain control of our borders, ensure our national security, enforce our laws, protect our jobs, and keep America from being overwhelmed by illegal immigration?
Whatever It Takes confronts one of the most controversial issues of national security: immigration, and exposes the hypocrisy, greed, and political correctness that could literally destroy our nation.
In Whatever It Takes, you'll learn:
How many cities—and J. D. names names—actually refuse to cooperate with federal law enforcement. Your city might be among them
How our law enforcement system is so bound in bureaucracy that it treats illegal aliens like fish, throwing them back into the stream of American life—they even call it "catch and release"
Why illegal alien murderers and rapists walk free along our streets—and how our perverse laws may actually encourage illegal alien gangs to kill (if they cross into Mexico, they won't be extradited)
The Social Security lie: illegal immigrants don't support the system; they're actually hastening its downfall
How illegal immigration steals jobs from American workers and reduces their pay
The alleged "solution": a guest-worker plan that would reward lawbreakers and lead to more illegal immigration
The infuriating double standards: how illegal immigrants often take advantage of health and education benefits-by law!-at the expense of American citizens
The next September 11: if we don't regain control of our borders, how can we prevent it?
As a way of introducing the book, click here for the complete chapter, Chapter 1: Overrun.
ILLEGALS
The Imminent Threat Posed by our Unsecured U.S.-Mexico Border
by Jon E. Dougherty
A focused examination of the problems posed by illegal immigration from the unique perspective of those who deal with the U.S.-Mexico border every day.
In years past, immigration into the United States was treated as a privilege, not a right to be granted automatically just by being able to make it to America's shoreline or borders. Today, however, the entire process of immigration has been drastically politicized by both major parties in Washington, D.C.; one party sees votes – the other, cheap labor. This is investigative journalist Jon Dougherty's probing look into how this indiscriminate immigration is tearing at the fabric of our culture and society. Interviewing Border Patrol agents, local residents, citizen-enforcement groups and even the immigrants themselves, Dougherty examines the implicit dangers of our reckless attitude toward admittance, showing how all American citizens, native-born and otherwise, are consequently threatened by welfare fraud, drug lords, and terrorism. This is the untold, unnerving true story about the social and political turmoil on the U.S.-Mexico border.
INVASION
How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals,
and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores
by Michelle Malkin
In "Invasion," Michelle Malkin gives us the bad news -- terrorists are all still welcome in America -- even after Sept. 11, 2001
That is the alarming message about the gross negligence of our immigration system today.
This is a shocking expose of how America's lax immigration policies led to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks
Malkin, one of America's most important young journalists and a first–generation American of Filipino descent, shows how every component of our immigration system failed: from kowtowing consular offices to unguarded borders and ports of entry to toothless detention and deportation policies.
Plagued by inertia, political correctness and corruption, the U.S. government refuses to enforce its immigration laws with consistency and common sense.
In "Invasion," Malkin reveals:
Malkin, former editorial writer for the Seattle Times and Los Angeles Daily News, writes a nationally syndicated column. She is a Fox News Channel commentator.