However, it makes no sense to continue immigration and admitting foreign students from Red China as if there were no threat on that front. The Chinese remain as unfriendly to the US as ever.

The recent arrest of a medical student smuggler demonstrates that shutting the door to China would be wise.

US: Med student tried to smuggle cancer research to China, Associated Press, December 31, 2019

BOSTON (AP) — A medical student from China who U.S. authorities say tried to smuggle cancer research material taken from a Boston hospital out of the country has been held without bail by a judge who ruled he was a flight risk.

Zaosong Zheng, 29, who last year earned a visa sponsored by Harvard University to study in the U.S., appeared Monday in U.S. District Court in Boston.

Magistrate Judge David Hennessy ruled that evidence suggested Zheng had tried to smuggle vials of research specimens in a sock in his suitcase bound for China and granted the prosecution’s request to hold him without bail.

He was arrested Dec. 10 at Boston’s Logan Airport on a charge of making false statements.

Zheng stole the materials from his lab at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, authorities allege.

Some vials contained a colleague’s work he had replicated without the authorization or knowledge of the lab, Zheng told authorities, according to court documents.

Zheng was possibly acting on behalf of the Chinese government, the FBI said in affidavit included in court documents. (Continues)

So now he is back, flacking a book. Harper Collins’ book page headlines, “Whether you were born in the U.S., just recently immigrated, are a Dreamer or undocumented citizen, we are all Americans.”

Obviously, he is still unclear on the concept of American citizenship, just as he was when Time chose him as the magazine’s illegal alien cover boy in 2012:

Jose the Filipino is certainly one of the media’s favorite illegal aliens, since he has no violent crimes to cover up (that we know of), only the ubiquitous job and benefits theft.

Harper Collins also shows a book tour scheduled at least through the end of September, so there is an opportunity for ICE to easily catch and deport him, an action that would be a great service for the nation.

The New York Times apparently remains fond of Vargas, as shown by its review of the book:

Not every day that a writer who happens to be undocumented gets a review in the @nytimesarts section of @nytimes #DearAmerica pic.twitter.com/roC50Bp4rV

— Jose Antonio Vargas (@joseiswriting) September 20, 2018

Here’s that review, reprinted elsewhere:

Living the American Dream — in Hiding, New York Times, September 19, 2018

Jose Antonio Vargas comes from a family of gamblers, and in his new book, “Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen,” he’s upping the ante — or maybe, given the current executive’s predilection for travel bans and family separations, he’s going all in. Vargas recalls the enormous wager his family made 25 years ago, when his mother brought him to Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila and put him on a flight to California. He was 12 years old, and he would go to America first. Mama, as he calls her throughout his memoir, promised to follow.

Twenty-five years later, Mama is still in the Philippines, and Jose is still in the United States — no longer based in Mountain View, Calif., where he was sent to live with his maternal grandparents, but traveling around the country as an activist filmmaker and a writer, without a fixed address where he might be apprehended.

In 2011, he was a young journalist with an enviable résumé when he published an essay in The New York Times Magazine that revealed his undocumented status. Immigration lawyers warned him against going public; one called it “legal suicide.” In “Dear America,” Vargas writes that talking to lawyers “made me feel like I was carrying an incurable disease.”

Filipinos living in the United States have a Tagalog term for the undocumented immigrants who go to their churches, live in their communities or reside in their homes: tago ng tago, “hiding and hiding” — T.N.T. for short, like a secret waiting to explode. Vargas’s grandparents, both of them naturalized citizens, expected him to keep hiding until he didn’t have to. The plan was for Jose to find under-the-table work, like cleaning bathrooms at the flea market, so he could save enough money to pay an American woman to marry him. Maybe, his grandmother hoped, he wouldn’t even need to pay anyone, because he would fall in love.

But he wasn’t about to toil in the shadows to marry an American woman; Vargas is gay, and he’s also extremely, exuberantly ambitious. The constant dissembling was unbearable, he explains; he feared losing sight of who he was.

Vargas came out as gay when he was 16. Coming out as undocumented took longer. He wanted to dream big, even when his family was telling him that a life out in the open was not only fanciful but dangerous. “You are not supposed to be here,” his grandfather would remind him.

“The dream that Mama, Lolo and Lola had for me was dictated by their own realities, by their own sense of limitations,” he writes, using the Tagalog words for grandpa and grandma. “The America they dreamed for me was not the America I was creating for myself.”

The moments when Vargas describes how profoundly alienated he feels from his own family are the most candid and crushing parts of the book. He admits that he felt much closer to what he calls his “white family” — the caring grown-ups who mentored him in high school; the seasoned journalists who gave him career advice; the generous benefactors who offered him material support — than to the blood relatives who made extraordinary sacrifices in order to bring him to the United States. As a teenager, he could barely bring himself to call Mama in the Philippines. “I couldn’t talk to my own mother while I was collecting mother figures,” he says, in one ruthlessly honest line.

His grandmother and grandfather raised him, but they couldn’t see him. They warned him against taking up too much space, telling their cub-reporter grandson he was “getting fancy now.” In 2008, when Vargas was cited as part of a team for The Washington Post that won a Pulitzer Prize, his grandmother called to say how worried she was. “What will happen if people find out?” she asked.

“Dear America” covers some of the same ground as Vargas’s essay for The Times Magazine, as well as his 2013 film, “Documented.” He details the fake papers his grandfather purchased for $4,500. He recalls how the local library enabled his teenage self to become a connoisseur of ’90s pop culture on the cheap. (What truly mystified him were the cartoons in The New Yorker: “Were they supposed to be funny?”) He briefly recounts the colonial history of the Philippines, first under the Spanish, then under the Americans, as well as the stark betrayal of the 1946 Rescission Act, which reneged on the American promise to offer citizenship and veterans’ benefits to Filipino soldiers who fought on behalf of the United States in World War II. (Continues)

Peter Kirsanow, a member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, appeared with Tucker Carlson on Thursday to discuss the facts about illegal alien crime.

Kirsanow’s recitation of disturbing crime statistics was an eye-opener about the cost of open borders diversity.

TUCKER CARLSON: Iowa college student Molly Tibbetts is dead; she was killed by an illegal alien. It’s another reminder that our governing class refuses to enforce our country’s laws. When they’re called out on that, they deny they’re doing anything wrong. Some say we should be grateful that illegal aliens enter this country freely because they are smarter, less dangerous and generally more impressive than regular Americans. [. . .]

Peter Kirsanow knows a lot about this subject; he’s a lawyer, a US Civil Rights Commissioner and the author of the book Second Strike; he joins us here tonight. Thank you very much for coming on. So it seems like a simple question to answer because it’s a data-based question: to what extent do people here illegally add to our crime problem; do we know the answer?

PETER KIRSANOW: We have a pretty good understanding of it, and it’s significant: I heard your lead-in and you’re absolutely right. You have to disaggregate data because the various organs of both federal and state government consciously avoid getting this data. You could probably find out for example how many Norwegian prisoners there are in Minnesota but it’s difficult to disaggregate data with respect to illegal aliens, but it can be done.

There’s something called the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program [SCAAP] and you can extrapolate from that and get pretty reliable data. Now Alex [Nowrasteh] is very knowledgeable; that’s why it’s puzzling that he won’t acknowledge the overwhelming amount of data that shows that illegal aliens not only commit more crimes at a higher rate, that is than lawful residents, but more serious crimes at a far higher rate than lawful residents. And we’re not talking about a little bit; he conveniently mentioned Texas to claim that the homicide rates among illegal aliens is 44 percent lower than that for lawful residents. He chose the one state where it is true that the homicide rate is lower for illegal aliens by 15 percent not 44 percent, but if you look at every of their state it’s significant how much more — not just the homicide rate, but every other serious crime: rape, aggravated assault, you name it — so much more.

For example, in New York 27 percent of incarcerated illegal aliens are incarcerated for murder, not jaywalking. We did a study, Carissa Mulder and I did a study with respect to five states, five of the largest states, to see how many illegal aliens were incarcerated for homicide — Texas, New York, Florida, California and Arizona — 5,400 legal aliens are incarcerated for homicide. That’s just homicide.

There are over 300,000 illegal aliens incarcerated: we’re talking billions of dollars in incarceration costs and all other kinds of costs. And the base that open borders advocates often steal is that they don’t count the millions of offenses in crimes committed by illegal aliens such as document theft, Social Security, driver’s licenses, but also illegal appropriation of welfare benefits, and we’re talking about billions of dollars.

Let’s put that aside, and let’s just talk about the more serious crimes. John Lott did probably the most methodologically rigorous and comprehensive examination of this by using Arizona Department of Corrections data, and he went over a 30-year period. This was exhaustive, and this is what he does — he’s a scholar — and what he showed is that illegal aliens don’t just commit more crime or more serious crimes by say, 5 percent more or 10 percent more than awful residents, but by 250 percent more.

For a long time when I listen to, for example people talking heads on television, and you know at the Civil Rights Commission every once in a while someone tries to pull a fast one on us, I’m astonished by the fact that we have copious data on this, and it appears as if there are a lot of entrenched interests that want to make us believe that this is not a serious issue.

Americans are being slaughtered. Americans are suffering property damage in the billions of dollars. Americans are spending billions of tax dollars to address this problem, both from the law enforcement standpoint and incarceration standpoint and the social carnage. . .

CARLSON: And I think we’d have the right to know — I mean, maybe Americans would decide you know it’s worth it actually, I want more illegal aliens here. Maybe they wouldn’t, but we have a right to the information, but that’s why I’m so grateful you came tonight, Peter Kirsanow.