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Summary: Great work by Malkin
Review: I noticed almost all of the negative reviews here are nothing but personal attacks, with the usual liberal retorts; racist, not "fair" because it doesn't discuss the positive contribution of illegals, etc. Well, first off, it obvious many of those negative reviews were by people who did not read the book, and the rest are by those who read the book, but did not want to read what they read. One thing that the naysayers DID NOT say, because they CANNOT say, is that the stories she told were UNTRUE!! Unfettered immigration is a serious problem in this country. Too many people are afraid to say it because of the fear of being called a racist, which is exactly what the liberals count on. Or, if you are a non-white like Malkin, they find ways to label you "ungrateful." If you read this book without previously deciding it to be worhtless, you will be stunned to know what has been going on and you will ask yourself, "WHY HAVEN'T I HEARD ABOUT THIS BEFORE?!!!" Illegal immigrants do nothing but free-ride and bring their criminal ways to this country. They act with impugnity because they know better than anyone about the lax attitude of this country's legal system towards them. And, shamefully, it is our fellow Americans, either by personal greed, power hunger, or simple indifference, that is allowing our country to be slowly imploded from within. Malkin's excellently researched book is a chance for many of us to open our eyes and see things for what they are. It is not racist to demand legal immigration, or to demand those who come here assimilate to our language and culture. Read this book for a lesson. If you wait for the New York Times to address it, California and Texas will be back in Mexico's hands before they do.
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Summary: The most under-reported story of our time.
Review: Ms. Malkin's book is an easy read and I should have been able to get through it in a day or so. But I would read a couple of pages and have to put it down because I was so damn angry! This latest bete noire of liberalism takes straight aim at this country's immigration policy, which is driven by political ambition and political correctness. She does her homework, so it is difficult to argue with her. Heavily footnoted and so thoroughly researched, she makes an air-tight case for radical immigration reform. Rejectionist leftists will trot out the well-worn argument that our country did not get all hot and bothered when there were massive numbers of white Europeans flooding our shores at the turn of the century. But what they conveniently overlook is the fact that there was not the real danger of a radical Islam poised with a dagger pointed at the west. Michelle has done a huge public service in chronicalling the insanity of our immigration policy. It is a huge shame that the only place where her views are aired is on Fox News; for some reason the views of this Phillipine immigrant are being censored by the rest of the national media. This book will open your eyes to a danger that threatens each and every American.
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Summary: VERY accurate book. Makes you BOILING MAD!
Review: Michelle Malkin is a great writer, and the fact that she is a 1st generation American and feels so strongly about the subject lends her crediblilty. Reading this book makes you angry about how our government sits back and does nothing, or continues to try to please everybody instead of enforcing its own laws. Full of examples, this should be required reading for anyone interested in immigration issues, or keeping our nation safe from terrorist invaders...
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Summary: I would give it 2 and a half if possible
Review: This book deserves more than the 2 I gave it but less than 3. Two and a half? This book does hit the nail on the head as far as the issue is concerned. Witness Chapter 4 : "It's time that we give immigrants to this country a swift kick to the seats of their pants and show them the exit door." Malkin is right : immigrants commit crimes and perpetrate terror. It does not matter the race or color of their skin. From the dreaded Irish "Bushmill Gang" of suburban Boston, the British "Steak and Kidney Choir" with antecedents in Manchester, England, the Jamaican "Fer-de-Lance" squad of D.C, the vicious Ukrainian "South Vodka Battalion" of Simi Valley, California, and the Mexican "Burrito Loco Brigade" of northwestern North Dakota. And let's not forget the feared combination Jewish-Japanese "Sushi/Gefilte Fish" boys of Runnymeade, Nebraska. These organized crime/terror squads are testimony to the failures of immigration, and it is time to put all immigrants on a boat to back from where the came. Malkin's flaw, however, is her misunderstanding of immigration law. Codicil 17 of the US immigration charter (pg. 127 in her book) is misquoted and taken out of context. "...herewith, immigrants, to the plebus quo, shall in transit, with revocation, proceed, in a timely and justly manner, to the matter of pro nobis quadis, sans or not sans duffle baggage, to be deported or not to be deported...." Malkin takes a home run swing at the message of this codicil but makes a big whiff and strikes out! Time to do some more thorough research, Michelle.
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Summary: Very sad
Review: This amateurish diatribe written by a woman who had an identity crisis borne out of personal anger, went shopping for an ideology, and found one. Lost in her anger is something that should be painfully obvious to readers : future waves of immigrants in the same boat that her own family was in several decades ago would likely be denied entry into the United States if we were to enact the xenophobic and wholly un-American measures she proposes. It is really sad that Malkin is allowing herself to be exploited by the right, and that she gives the right cachet. One can just hear closet white supremacists like Rush Limbaugh gloating now, "...she is Asian and even *she* thinks that we should shut the gates..."
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Summary: Let the truth be known
Review: Every Political and Media figure in America should be required to read this book. It spells out in detail how our elected officials continue to sell this country out by doing nothing in order to get votes from radicals, most of whom are liberals who do little when it comes to our nation's security.
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Summary: A poor piece of "journalism", really
Review: She ruined a legitimate topic. Malkin is a second rate journalist. Here in New Mexico, I understand the need to filter out some of the criminal elements riding the crest of the immigrant wave into the country. Malkin is not wrong for identifying this problem. But the draconian measures she suggest make my stomach queasy.
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Summary: Good book, but it makes too many concessions to the liberals
Review: I would give it five stars, but it makes too many concessions to the liberals. It is also unpatriotic because it criticizes President Bush. Otherwise, Michelle Malkin brings up some really important points. Basically, the fact that we allow immigrants into this country is the reason why the 9-11 attacks occurred. If there were no bizarre visa loopholes for these people to employ to get into this country, the terrorism would not have happened on our soil, and the Arabs would be back to detonating the odd car bomb outside discotheques in Belgium. But Michelle Malkin does not go far enough (what do you expect from an East Coast person - she probably has some liberal tendencies in her): She needs to call for the deportation of all immigrants, and for the construction of a wall at our borders, particularly that with Mexico.
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Summary: Tired and amazingly paranoid
Review: This is a book for you only if you tend to believe that America will be a safe place if only we keep all the evil foreigners out. Of the millions of people who cross our borders yearly as tourists, businessmen, students, workers, and immigrants, SOME do bad things. Malkin documents this without any balance for all that we gain.
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Summary: Arabs R' US?
Review: Rather than the languid subtitle Malkin chose for this book, I wish she would have chosen something with a little more panache, say, "Invasion: Karl Rove's strategy to quadruple America's population, destroy its open wilderness areas, undermine the Constitution, swamp Americans with onerous taxation, pollute our schools with thousands of languages, re-introduce tuberculosis to the population, drive down wages, increase crime, and lower the quality of life for a marginal increase in the Republicans' Hispanic vote." Even if the war on terror seems the most pressing concern at the moment, it is really just a small battle in a much larger war -- the war among patriotic Americans to once again take control over their border, and hence their country. Malkin unearths lots of startling facts about the gross inefficiency of the INS in rounding up and expelling illegal immigrants who break into our country. FBI statistics bear out the grim reality that America is becoming -- between 8 and 11 illegal immigrants currently reside in the country. If we can not protect our border from foreign infiltration, we are hardly a country anymore. If we pretend to believe illusions like "America is a nation of immigrants" we invent fabled histories that never were, and will eventually destroy us. Malkin cites the work of the talented writer Joel Mawbory of National Review who reviewed the Visa applications for many of the 19 hijackers and noticed that many of them should have been barred from entering the country. In other words, 9-11 was a direct result of our romanticization of immigrants as hard-working and good Americans. The ease at which Mexicans can cross the border is wreaking havoc among the local residents of Texas and Arizona. Mexicans leave garbage, human waste, kill dogs and cattle, and often bring in drugs and prostitutes. The area around the Mexican border is a dangerous battle zone, yet the Republicans and Democrats who run our government tell us that this is what made America great. For those doubters out there, I encourage you to take a trip to Tijuana and ask yourself if you seriously want America to look like that? Malkin doesn't fully buy into the demographics is destiny argument, but her book is a codified argument that highlights the treachery (no that is not too strong a word) of our political class who lie or ignore about the consequences of immigration, and who are thus signing America's death warrant. The canard about the US economy needing skilled immigrants is a gross distortion of the facts -- over 90% of immigrants are low-skilled. Such a swell of labor will keep wage rates down for the poorest of Americans and make it more difficult for them to move into the middle class, and support their children. Many of the problems that our nation currently faces have its origin in immigration -- declining scores in public schools, growing crime, growing taxes, growing income disparity, congested highways, urban sprawl etc. The problem is that the immigration issue is never framed in an honest way. People are not told about the links between immigration and urban sprawl, or immigration and crowded schools. These problems, however, do not have a life of their own -- they are not amorphous entities floating outside of rational understanding. They are understandable and quantifiable and thus solutions are possible. But real solutions require an escape from the Neoconservative miasma that has turned open borders into of the Ten Commandments. Immigration threatens our nation and the politicians who yield to the demands of open borders are not patriots, but subversives who are working against our country. This book is an armory of intellectual ammunition that helps the patriot overturn the nefarious ways of our political elite.
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