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Summary: shocked at what Malkin found
Review: In Invasion, Michelle Malkin examines how and who we let into this country. Often the process is easier that it may seem. There is corruption and incompetence with the INS. Too often people are rushed through immigration check points because the tourist industry does not want people to be put through a hassle as well as the INS's reluctance to comptuerize a list of names of people who shouldn't be allowed into this country. In many cases with immigrants, the appropriate background checks are not performed making it easy for criminals to come into this country. When they do commit crime,s their native countries obviously don't want them back so they end up staying in this country. Further more, the government fails to do a decent job in tracking immigrans and international students. The government is unaware of where immigrants are and what international students are studying even if it is something like nuclear engineering. This book should be a wake-up call for us all.
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Summary: Not very carefully researched, filled with ascertions
Review: As a conservative and someone concerned about immigration, this was a real disappointment. Some horror stories are sprinkled through the book, but there is no real solid analysis. No notion of the trade-offs or attempts to meassure the returns to expending money on different measures. Just a lot of ascertions.
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Summary: Entry into this country is a privilege - not a right
Review: Michelle Malkin hits the proverbial nail on the head with this eye-opening manifesto. As Michelle pithily states, "The safety of our citizens must come before the comfort and convenience of foreigners." Malkin expertly delineates the complex looming dilemma at hand - the inexcusable lack of government coordination and willingness to keep illegal aliens out of our country. The airline and tourism industry, politicians pandering for ethnic votes, diplomatic kowtowing, and political croynism have all superseded national security. For those who have given negative reviews of Invasion due to its "liberal bashing," well, you ony show your ignorance as you evidently have yet to read the book. Malkin has written an unabashedly candid rebuke of the lack of accountability within the INS and government in general - while sparing no one from blame. She is harsh on President Bush and his desire to enact a bipartisan bill with Senator Daschle allowing immediate amnesty for all illegal aliens. Malkin then denounces Ashcroft for his continuation of the Clinton legacy by broadening victim status and extending the stays of illegal aliens indefinitely through T-Visas. As Malkin states, "there will be howling protestations from the usual suspects. But this is no time to give in to the homegrown abettors of anti-Americanism."
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Summary: A legitimate topic ruined by baseness and demagoguery
Review: I was acquainted with Michelle and her husband when they lived in Seattle. They were nice people, and suprisingly liberal. In fact, the rumor (very believable to me after reading this) is that Michelle deliberately writes in a base, shrill, and obnoxious fashion in order to *discredit* conservatives. I knew Michelle! She was much brighter and more compassionate than her journalistic style (based largely on soundbite simplification and name-calling) might reveal her to be to those who don't know her. In fact, Michelle IN PERSON constantly impressed me with her ability to see an issue from both sides, and to understand its complexities and subtleties. I really wonder if it is true that she is a liberal masquerading as a conservative in order to embarrass the latter.
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Summary: A recantation of the obvious
Review: The 9/11 terrorist attacks was a Christmas of self-righteousness for conservative commentators, who not only got to fill themselves up with some justified anger for once in their privileged lives, but then got to rail on all the other things wrong with America. "Invasion" is written in that vein; yes, the INS is messed up, and its problems can be quickly summed up. In fact, they have been. America is the most powerful country in the world, giant and spread thin, and the INS is one of our weak points. It needs help. So, being our easiest target, Malkin takes aim. She has many editorial asides, and seems to relish our borders are a kind of action movie; the idea of thwarting illegals a la The Berlin Wall seems to warm her heart. These are no kinds of answers; the best solutions reside in workable realities, not in the kneejerk commentaries of pretty, pampered conservative scorps. I offer two stars for the reporting, but that's all. Malkin has chosen a subject she can easily judge -- conservatives like to be right, and so they often do that kind of thing, then attach that thing somehow to Hitler -- and she has failed to present the issue from all sides. Truth be told, those illegal immigrants will one day have children who most likely become Republicans, and the Republican Party, like Bush already has, will back off this line of talk. Soon enough, when the conservatives think they have a real shot at the Hispanic Americans, a book like this will never be written, and one hand will wash the other.
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Summary: Michelle Malkin has dared to say what most people only think
Review: What a terrific read. Michelle Malkin may be a relative newcomer to political commentary, but I can tell you right now this is one savvy lady. Michelle puts to word what most people only think about in those most private recesses of their minds while at boring parties or stuffy business meeting. I predict a long and successful career for Michelle...deservedly so.
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Summary: Ten Star wake up call for the apathetic American taxpayer
Review: This is a must read for anyone interested in factual and timely information about Americas illegal immigrants mess and how the INS is a total sham and how not strengthening our borders is harming our citizens as well as the making it harder on those who want to enter the United States, legally. She lays our facts and checkable information that shows that over the last twenty to thirty years our borders have basically become invisible and that thousands of illegals who want to steal, maim and kill our citizens are amongst us and if the problem is not addressed in a serious and firm way soon, that many more 9/11's will happen and when they do they will maim and kill even more, and will probably damage industry and commerce in ways the American citizen hasn't even paused to consider. And she proves that when a terrorist hits a place like New York City, the ramifications are felt thousands of miles away in places like Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Utah because federal tax dollars must be collected and used to pay the bill. If this book doesn't cause you to become an activist locally as well as nationally by hounding your congressman or senator to act and act seriously and within the next year or so, then you either don't care or think that the bad things mentioned ion the book only happen in places like New York City, Washington, DC, Los Angels or other larger metropolitan areas. How wrong you are.
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Summary: VERY accurate book! Makes you boiling mad!
Review: Michelle 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. Hey, all you passionate readers out there... you've got to read Keshner's COCKPIT CONFESSIONS OF AN AIRLINE PILOT, which will blow you away. This is one self-loathing, self-loving, bigot, who writes truth in raw, no-holds-barred form... terrific stuff. I don't know why, but COCKPIT is only available on the web.
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Summary: Where are we going and why am in this basket?
Review: Michelle Malkin fancies herself a world-class columnist. Her personal validation comes from her column (Creators Syndicate), which appears in a number of US daily papers as op-ed pieces; her magazine articles are staples of conservative media. Like other op-ed writers, she writes about what she believes she knows, and infuses her columns with her own opinions. Nothing new there. However, unlike seasoned writers, Malkin infuses her work with an unnecessarily ugly and mean spirited nature. Whatever point she attempts to make, no matter how logical or rational the argument, her "point" is drowned in a morass of words meant to at once scare and titillate her readers. In her book, Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists Criminals & Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores, the unrestricted-by-column-inch author excels at her art. One gets the very real impression that the author is not only pleased with herself, but that she seems to have surpassed her own expectations. Unfortunately, what others would call a book, Invasion, comes across with offensive smugness that suffocates any inkling of independent thought. As in her columns, Malkin's weapons of choice in Invasion are the accusation, the false analogy and the judgment. Her favorite accusations involve generalized attacks on all who do see her world through her unobstructed eyes. Once she sets the poor person, or institution into her sights, she attacks with the second of her weapons, the false analogy; her favorite of which is the good old "post hoc ergo prompter hoc" school of "therefore, because of this". Because its hard to argue against a kangaroo court of one, when it comes to judgments, Malkin doesn't trust her readers to view the facts and make the call. No, like most dictators, Malkin is right, and anyone she doesn't like, or even the ones that she does care for but have stepped one inch from the revealed path are summarily adjudged, not as "guilty", but as "GUILTY AND HE SHOULD ROT IN HELL FOR EVER STEPPING ON THIS EARTH!" This type of dramatics abounds, just in case the reader wonders who's reading whose book. Malkin is a black and white type of person. Black is bad, white is good and there are no paler shades of gray. As for depth, look to William Saffire for that. Throughout this book her reliance of non-sequitor analogies and her insatiable appetite for hyperbole causes the thinking reader to cringe. However Invasion, like of her columns, isn't written for thinkers as much as they written for people who are happy to let "authorities" like Malkin think for them in times of question. These same people see her poison pen as a salve to the soul of those right minded American who want their beliefs validated. If Malkin is even remotely interested in changing the minds of people to her way of thinking, she needs to grow up, knock the big ego chip off of her shoulder, and study to become a serious writer. However, with a surname Webster defines as a "slattern" Michelle Malkin is more apt to take the easy route rather then the path to enlightenment while the rest of us are in that handbasket headed to enternal Hell.
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Summary: NOW WE KNOW HOW BUT WE DON'T KNOW WHY!
Review: Ms. Malkin who writes for the Washington Times would have received an automatic "ignore" from me until I saw her on Charley Rose and bought the book the next day. The incredulous story she tells about how terrorists are still being welcomed into this country every day, because our Federal Government cannot seem to grapple with a systematic methodology for barring entry to those who present the potential for a clear and present danger, is nothing short of insane. The hypocracy of claiming the need to go to war with Iraq while allowing terrorist cells entry under the absurd rationalization that we are an open society and cannot discriminate against Muslims or Arabs, will indeed kill us. Until others can show that we are being attacked by ethnic groups different from those we have identified, this book is a must in opening the eyes of every American who wants to survive to see his and her children's smiles and grandchildren's eyes.
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