It’s likely many Americans would answer “no” to this question, despite the fact that the author of “Adios, America,” Ann Coulter, has published more than 10 books on the New York Times best-seller list, including such attention-grabbing titles as “Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama” (September 2012) and “High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton” (August 1998).

Coulter has also carved out significant space in the non-print media with frequent appearances as a guest on such diverse television shows as “Piers Morgan Tonight,” HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” and “Fox & Friends.”  Her glamorous long blonde hair and sharp-tongued wit, as well as her very considerable knowledge of law and politics, has also won her many fans on the right.

With a full title like “Adios, America: The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole,” her latest 2015 book may have been a bridge too far—especially for the Never Trump wing of the Republican Party, who still insist that there are only 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States.  As Coulter dares to reveal in Chapter 5 of “Adios America,” however, the real number is more like 30,000. Even those who have not read her book should have been aware long ago that the original 11 million estimate was first tallied by the Pew Hispanic Center in March of 2005.  

So we’re supposed to believe that, in 12 years, there have been no more undocumented newcomers?  According to a 2012 CBS News report, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claimed 63 percent of all illegal immigrants had arrived before 2000. If in fact there were 12 million tallied in 2012, that meant only 5.3 million had been added each year since 2000.  (Doing the match: 12,000,000 multiplied by .63 equals 7,560,000; 12,000,000 minus 7,560,000 equals 63,600,000; and 63,600,000 divided by 12 equals 5,300,000 or 5.3 million).

Yet, according to the “Land of Less Opportunity” chart cited in the Wall Street Journal’s Sept. 25, 2012 column, an average of 1.4 million illegal immigrants had been “apprehended” every year since 2000.  That would mean a total of 4.8 million illegal immigrants had been apprehended between 2000 and 2012.  The key word in this context is apprehended.  As we now know, thanks to former Attorney General Holder and former President Obama, apprehended did not necessarily also mean detained and deported but, instead, given an order to report back to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at some future date and then loaded on a bus to be transported to some undisclosed community inside the United States.  Very few of these “apprehended” illegal immigrants (even those who don’t speak, read or write English) would be dumb enough to report back to ICE—ever.

Both the math and the enforcement policy get even fuzzier when we consider all the “anchor babies” born to illegal immigrants over the past 17 years.  According to the Pew Research Center, in 2008 alone there were 344,000 such children born here.  One could therefore reasonably add another 3 million to whatever the total illegal immigration population may have been in 2012.  As for 2017, it is no longer politically correct to use the term anchor baby.  What better way can there be to eliminate an inconvenient statistic than to erase it from the English lexicon?

Then too there is the impact of chain migration and the “Dreamers”—some 800,000 “innocent children” who are now allegedly full-time college students and/or patriotic members of America’s armed forces.  In chapter 8 of “Adios, America,” Coulter has only this to say about that: “Evidently, the dream of many ‘Dreamers’ is to rob, assault and murder Americans.”  Is it any wonder the progressives revile this woman?

Like it or not, though, Coulter is crystal clear about the biggest problem: “What happens with immigration will determine whether America continues to exist or becomes a Third World republic that will never elect another Republican… It’s more important than gun rights, right to life, taxes, or Iran’s nuclear program—or whatever other issue you care to cite, because immigration will decide all issues, once and for all, in favor of the Democrats.”

President Trump has never said anything like this, but his repeated insistence that a wall be built on our southern border makes it clear he agrees with Coulter’s basic premise. The other Republicans are, of course, all over the map on this, as Coulter explains in her chapter 17 “Voter Guide.”  Here she calls out the vacillating immigration viewpoints of such key Republican politicians as Jeb Bush, Rick Perry, Chris Christie, Rand Paul, Rick Santorum, and Ted Cruz. Many American voters may be surprised to learn in chapter 17, however, that “Romney is the only serious presidential candidate ever to support E-Verify and a fence on the border—unequivocally.”  Maybe—just maybe—Ann Coulter, Mitt Romney and Donald Trump are right.

Even Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau seems to be coming to his senses on this issue. When President Trump announced his ban on travelers from Muslim-majority countries in January, Trudeau fired off a defiant Twitter retort: “To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength.”  But  a Sept. 17  op-ed published in the online version of The Wall Street Journal, Sara Schaefer Muñoz in Toronto and Alicia A. Caldwell in Los Angeles warned, “Canada has an urgent message for immigrants in the U.S. fearing deportation: Don’t count on us for refuge.”

When asked about this change in policy at a recent news conference, Prime Minister Trudeau replied, “We welcome refugees in this country, but there is a process to determine whether someone is a refugee.” He also added that “those fleeing to Canada face a rigorous screening.”

In this case, the problem wasn’t illegal immigrants from Mexico but 7,000 asylum seekers from Haiti.  What prompted this sudden influx was the Trump administration’s announcement that, after January 2018, it will not renew an Obama “humanitarian” program that allowed 58,000 refugees to stay in the United States while Haiti recovered from the devastating earthquake of 2010.

Ah yes—the ghost of Obama, the commander-in-chief of global humanitarianism, continues to haunt us.  Coulter’s book came out too early to cover the Hatian refugee story in Canada.  In chapter 6 of her book, though, she picks up on how Obama dealt with a Hatian miscreant named Kesler Dufrene.  When Dufrene was convicted of murdering three people in North Miami in 2012, Colter explains, he “had already been arrested in the United States nine times” and was “due to be deported, but was released when Obama halted deportations to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.”

Perhaps the most salient point about all of this is that the need for true immigration reform is not just important for the United States but for all nations that want to protect their sovereignty—a point President Trump especially emphasized in his United Nations speech but for which he was roundly criticized by the Democrats and the progressive media.

The good news is that Trump’s actions are speaking much louder than the words of his clueless critics. As Alicia Caldwell reports in her latest (October 5) Wall Street Journal update: “President Donald Trump has made cracking down on illegal immigration a priority of his administration. He has promised to arrest and quickly deport people trying to sneak into or living illegally in the U.S., build a wall at the Mexican border and hire at least 5,000 new Border Patrol agents.”

The DNC better hope Ann Coulter doesn’t target the murder of Democrat Party staffer Seth Rich in her next book. One America News has already uncovered enough evidence to make a very interesting read.

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