Ann Sits Down with Ben Shapiro

    On Monday, July 13, 2015, Ann went to an ¡Adios America! event in Garden Grove, CA at around 7:30pm-9pm. The video is available on Youtube or C-SPAN (computer generated transcript included). The C-SPAN video is 69 minutes long and embedded below. Ann is only on from minutes 0:09-1:09.

    Here are some quotes:

"Shapiro: Speaking of Donald Trump, obviously... he's had a big jump in the polls... You don't back Donald Trump for president.

Ann: Oh, I totally do.

Shapiro: Oh, really? [Surprised.]

Ann: Yeah [nodding].

Shapiro: Okay [grinning and nodding]." [Quote found in minutes 11-12.]

    On losing elections because of immigrants voting Democrat:

"I think probably some of you were as surprised as I was, the day, at 3am, election night. 'Huh, I thought [Romney] was gonna win that.' Well, get used to saying that a lot more. 'Huh, I thought we were gonna win that election. What happened to that state?'" [Quote found in minute 14.]

    On liberals calling immigration limits or deportations "racist" or "xenophobic."

"There has to be a restriction at some point. They're xenophobic the same way... any country is... [Shapiro says there are 7 billion people in the world.] They'd all like to live here and collect welfare in America and... have a nice life here... We're not taking them all, so at some point liberals are cutting them off too." [Quote found in minute 22.]

    If you do not have time to watch the full hour, here is what they talked about:

Hour 0:

Minutes 9-10: Ann wants to make interesting titles for Thomas Sowell's books.
Minute 10: Democrats, businesses, Republicans, and the media are all in favor of immigration.
Minute 11: The media determines the conversation, but now Donald Trump is bringing the topic up.
Minute 12: Trump read ¡Adios America! and it will help his campaign if other people read it too.
Minutes 13-15: Why immigration is the most important policy/topic.
Minute 16: America's immigration policy is bringing in peasant cultures.
Minutes 17-18: The middle class, blacks, and Hispanics are paying the cost that comes with immigration: hospitals, roads, schools, etc.
Minutes 18-19: America is becoming Brazil in terms of income inequality. Stopping immigration will cause wages to rise naturally.
Minutes 19-20: Is Ann's stance racist?
Minutes 20-21: Immigrants get affirmative action for absolutely no reason.
Minute 21: Jesse Jackson and Cesar Chavez opposed immigration.
Minute 22: All people (even liberals) are xenophobic to some point.
Minute 23: Immigration should be cut off to help the people here now.
Minutes 23-24: Should we pass amnesty in order to attract Hispanics?
Minute 25: Proposition 187 and Pete Wilson.
Minute 26: Hispanic groups do not like each other.
Minute 27: Any immigrant makes America less free. White immigrants are a problem too, like Piers Morgan, or even New York immigrants to Vermont making it Democrat.
Minutes 28-30: The government provides almost no statistics on immigrants in prison.
Minutes 30-33: Democrats say Americans commit more crime than immigrants, but the studies they cite do not even say that, or the studies are behind internet paywalls.
Minute 34: Immigration should be used to benefit Americans, not foreigners.
Minutes 35-36: $20 billion is sucked out of the economy every year by immigrants sending money home. Carlos Slim.
Minutes 36-38: The difference between pre-1970 immigrants and post-1970 immigrants.
Minutes 38-39: Legal immigrants are bad too.
Minute 39: The H1B visa program is fraud.
Minutes 39-41: Lakireddy Bali Reddy.
Minute 41: H1B visas are indentured servitude.
Minutes 42-44: If we stop letting cheap labor immigrate to America, will American companies leave for cheap labor in other countries? Ann admits she does not know the answer to the question, but Americans are not getting the jobs now anyway, so let's just try it.
Minutes 44-46: The media hides the immigration status of criminals or does not reveal their ethnicity at all.
Minute 47: Why are Republicans so blind to the truth on the topic of immigration?
Minute 48: So many times the media reports horrible immigrant crimes, but makes it sound like all-American teenagers are the criminals.
Minutes 49-50: There was a rape in Texas and it wasn't revealed to be an illegal until the media used his ethnicity as a reason he shouldn't be executed.
Minute 51: Immigration is the most important topic.
Minutes 51-52: Trump, in spite of being a novelty candidate, may need to be the nominee because he is the only one staunchly against immigration.
Minute 53: Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio will ruin America with amnesty, but Hillary Clinton wants to ruin America in lots of ways.
Minute 54: How Congress can stop immigration even if Clinton, Rubio, or Bush win.
Minutes 54-55: The 2014 election wave was because of amnesty.
Minute 56: The trade deal allows free movement of goods and people.
Minutes 56-57: Take out John Boehner or another establishment Republican so the others will fight amnesty.
Minute 57: Dave Brat was fantastic.
Minute 58: This problem will not just go away.
Minute 59: The whole country will be California and no Republican will every be POTUS again.

Hour 1:

Minute 0: America's middle class is one reason it is so great.
Minute 1: The rich want immigration.
Minutes 1-2: What do Californians do at this point? [Long pause.] Ann guesses California is just a warning to the rest of America.
Minute 2: We need a triple-layer fence.
Minute 3: Israel should be moved to the southern border of America.
Minutes 3-4: El Chapo.
Minutes 4-5: The 14^th Amendment is not about gays or anchor babies.
Minute 6: The anchor baby policy should be retroactive. [Crowd claps.]
Minutes 7-8: We need an immigration moratorium to shut down the immigrants' rights groups.
Minute 8: Ann can pick who is allowed into America.
Minute 9: Close.

Ann Called into the Ben Shapiro Show

    On Friday, June 5, 2015, Ann called into the 3rd and 4th segments of the 2nd hour to talk about ¡Adios America!. You can listen here, here, or below. The total run time is 44+ minutes, but Ann is only on from minute 20 to minute 44.



    Here are some quotes:

"I suppose, if I wanted to sell books, I shouldn't write books about things the media wants to censor." [Quote found in minute 21.]

    On Republicans trying to appeal to Hispanics by accepting amnesty:

"If Romney had won 71% of the Hispanic vote, which is unimaginable for a Republican in a Presidential election... he still would have lost. If he'd won about 4% more of the white vote, he would have won." [Quote found in minutes 22-23.]

"You can win elections by increasing your base vote much more than... chasing people who are never gonna vote a majority for you anyway. And as long as immigrants, unless they start voting 51% for Republicans (and right now it's 8 to 2 against Republicans), that's how, that's how you lose elections. That's not how you win elections... I just want a Republican who can do math. [Shapiro and Ann converse before Ann continues with:] It would be as if Republicans conned the Democrats into spending all their efforts trying to get a tiny slice more of the Evangelical vote. [Shapiro laughs.] And, okay, the feminists will be ticked off, the professors will be ticked off, the media will be ticked off, but maybe we can, we can clip off 1% more of the Evangelical vote. Democrats aren't this stupid." [Quote found in minutes 24-25.]

"The first people in America were English and Dutch settlers, and they're the ones who created the country. They were not immigrants. There was no... America to immigrate to. " [Quote found in minute 26.]

    If you do not have time to listen to the full twenty-four minutes, here is what they talked about:

Minute 20: Introduction.

Minute 21: What is the left's counterargument against Ann?

Minute 22: Establishment Republicans wanting amnesty.

Minute 23: The Reagan comeback.

Minute 24: Hispanics don't vote Republican, so don't waste time trying to appeal to them.

Minute 25: Democrats don't try to appeal to Evangelicals.

Minute 26: Everyone is not immigrants.

Minute 27: Biracial America, not multiracial.

Minute 28: Pre-1970 immigrants did not get government assistance.

Minute 29: Third World corruption.

Minute 30: Family values.

Minutes 31-32: Ann opposes immigrants because of primitive cultures, not skin color.

Minute 33: Immigrants are not victims; they were never in this country to begin with.

Minutes 34-35: Media cover-up of immigrant crime.

Minutes 35-36: Media Decoder Ring: How you can decode whether or not the criminal is an immigrant.

Minutes 36-37: Government statistics on illegal immigrants.

Minute 38: 10-year moratorium, border fence, round them up, stop anchor babies.

Minute 39: Start getting immigrants who are better than us.

Minutes 40-41: Legal immigrants can be just as bad as illegal.

Minute 42: Which Republicans will fix immigration?

Minutes 43-44: Romney was/is our best chance. Closing.