Coulter: Obama never could have been elected in this country but for Teddy Kennedy’s 1965 immigration act [View all]

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Never, never, ever, ever!”

Even the title of her latest book, ¡Adios, America!: The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third World Hellhole, is guaranteed to raise many folks’ blood pressure and strain their credulity.

Using language that many doubtless will find hair-raising if not downright offensive, Coulter speaks of the “browning of America”—a term she says she adopted as a negative after seeing it bandied favorably on MSNBC—and how the country is being ruined by an influx from Latin America, the Indian subcontinent, Vietnam, Nigeria, and other benighted locales. “In Nigeria, everyone is a criminal,” Coulter claims.

Coulter’s politically quixotic prescription: a 10-year moratorium on all legal immigration; a complete dismantling of the immigration bureaucracy, not only government agencies and sympathetic elected officials but also outside advocacy groups; the erection of an impassable fence along the entire U.S.-Mexican border (in her book, she praises the Communist East Germans for effectively, sometimes lethally, preventing their citizens from breaching the Berlin Wall); and a return to pre-1965 policies that give preference to highly-educated, usually white Europeans.

Coulter’s beau ideal is a two-time presidential candidate who insists he isn’t running this time around: 2012 Republican standard-bearer Mitt Romney. He is the only politician whose immigration policies—including his much-derided notion from the 2012 campaign that illegal residents should be incentivized to “self-deport”—are closely aligned with Coulter’s, and she hopes that GOP primary voters will ultimately beg him to get into the 2016 race.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/26/ann-coulter-on-the-browning-of-america.html

When I get too focused on policy differences between Democrats, I is worth noting how totally off-the-wall the far-right is on any number of issues - in this case, Coulter on immigration. Retired East German border guards might have jobs waiting for them after all. "Walls don't work unless you are willing to shoot those who get over, under or around them."