Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, And Other Foreign Menaces To Our Shores

by Michelle Malkin

Malkin exposes how America continues to welcome terrorists, criminal aliens, foreign murderers, torturers, and the rest of the world's undesirables.

Genres: Politics, Nonfiction, The United States Of America, History, Crime, Political Science

332 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Michelle Malkin is an American conservative blogger, political commentator, and author. Her weekly syndicated column appears in a number of newspapers and websites. She is a Fox News Channel contributor and has been a guest on MSNBC, C-SPAN, and national radio programs. Malkin has written four books published by Regnery Publishing.

Malkin began her journalism career at the Los Angeles Daily News, working as a columnist from 1992 to 1994. In 1995, she worked in Washington, D.C., as a journalism fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free-market, anti-government regulation, libertarian think tank. In 1996, she moved to Seattle, Washington, where she wrote columns for The Seattle Times. Malkin became a nationally-syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate in 1999.

Reviews

[Karpur Shukla · Rating 1 out of 5]

Sometimes, I give a book one star because it is physically impossible for me to give it zero stars. This is one of those times.

[Renee · Rating 5 out of 5]

In Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores, Michelle Malkin gives us a sobering and quite frankly, anxiety-provoking look at how our government has abdicated one of its most basic and critical charges, that of national security. She backs up her assertions with lots of solid research and concrete examples of failures from whatever source - incompetence, inattention, bureaucratic inertia, political posturing, you name it - and shows that there are many who have and are presently taking advantage of those substantial chinks in the armor. It got my blood boiling, especially in light of the fact that I’m financially supporting - as are all taxpayers in this country - a system that reinforces its own mistakes and poor judgment, and puts all of us in increasing peril. The take-away is this: we as Americans, cannot afford to be lulled by vague promises; rather, we must hold our government accountable for the job we hired it to do.

[The American Conservative]

'Malkin’s unique angle on immigration policy is in effect a direct answer to the Wall Street Journal’s damage-control maneuvers after last September’s terrorist attacks. Writing on the Opinion Journal website on January 15, James Taranto gloated that

“You’d think a horrific sneak attack by 19 foreigners on American soil would be a perfect opportunity for the close-the-borders crowd, but they’ve scarcely been heard from. [This is an in-joke reference to the Wall Street Journal’s notorious refusal to print contrary viewpoints on immigration, even from fellow-conservatives.] Of course, their argument wouldn’t really stand up; it’s preposterous on its face to suggest that Mexican gardeners are national-security threat, even if Arab flight students are.”

Malkin’s response: it’s the process, stupid. By focusing tightly on the way in which foreigners are admitted to the U.S., she demonstrates in crushing detail what 9/11 made clear to all observers less committed than Taranto: the process has collapsed. Whether the applicants are visitors or immigrants, and quite apart from any issue of security or economic benefit, the plain fact is that U.S. government agencies have lost their ability to guard the gates—let alone evict any undesirable who has actually entered.'

Read the full review, "The Unguarded Gate," on our website:
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[Fredrick Danysh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Terrorists are among the millions of people who enter the United States illegally every year. Case studies and examples are give. Contributing factors are examined and solutions suggested. The author, a second generation American, also cites the legal statutes on illegal immigration and gives resource sites. The book could almost serve as a primer for coming to and and staying in America, many times aided by government policies and ethnic organizations. Although published in 2002 very appropriate in light of todays immigration amnesty push.

[David Robins · Rating 5 out of 5]

Replete with examples of INS incompetence and criminality; concludes with admonition to "take out the trash, fix the holes in our fences, and defend Lady Liberty from all those who would trespass against her."

[Anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Michelle is right on top of the problems which are threatening America. How Illegal Immigration is causing our country money and higher costs for medical and other care, plus the criminal element as 25% of our jailed criminals are illegal aliens.

[Chaotician · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent reference for this year's debate topic.

[Paul · Rating 2 out of 5]

meh

[Pamela · Rating 5 out of 5]

Everyone should read this book.

[Rick Barnes]

Sad story of how America's decline is due to an out-of-control government.

[Eddie Novak · Rating 1 out of 5]

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[Dp4s · Rating 3 out of 5]

Political
-Defenses

[Daniel Barrows · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book seeks to persuade us that immigration to the United States should be greatly restricted, based on the claim that this will protect Americans from crime and terrorism. This thesis is false. To quote one 2020 study in Texas:

Relative to undocumented immigrants, US-born citizens are over 2 times more likely to be arrested for violent crimes, 2.5 times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes, and over 4 times more likely to be arrested for property crimes.

On terrorism, I also note some findings from a review article, Terrorism and Migration: An Overview :

terrorism has electoral and political (but sometimes short-lived) ramifications, for example, as terrorism promotes anti-immigrant resentment and (3) the effectiveness of stricter migration policies in deterring terrorism is rather limited, while terrorist attacks lead to more restrictive migration policies.

Malkin seems to be trying to capitalize on American fears of terrorism to pursue her pre-existing goal of more restrictive migration policies and stirring anti-immigrant resentment, just as the article suggests frequently happens. Perhaps a civil servant somewhere is thinking about how to tailor visa applications and enforcement policies to reduce terrorism. Just don't expect to find thoughtful analysis or proposals from Michelle Malkin.

[Drew · Rating 2 out of 5]

Immigration book released in 2002. Since it was released the year following 9/11, it focuses on the ability for terrorists to cross the border. This really obscures the issue and it's clear that Malkin is exploiting this to try to get conservatives at the time to demand closed borders for reasons other than immigration itself. Perhaps that worked rhetorically in 2002 and was good strategy, but it doesn't work anymore - reducing the appeal of the book and dating it.

On the bright side, Malkin's fiery language is at times entertaining and I did learn several things that I found to be both shocking and appalling.

If you're looking for a Malkin book on immigration, I would skip this one and read one of her other two (though I am yet to read them myself).