In what may be the most twisted example of American immigration laws, a teen convicted in Mexico of beheading four men and hanging their bodies off a bridge south of Mexico City lives freely in the United States as a U.S. citizen because he was born in San Diego to an illegal mother.
According to conservative columnist Ann Coulter’s newest book, “Adios America,” U.S. officials were helpless to stop Edgar Jimenez Lugo from entering the United States two years ago after serving less than three years in jail. The reason: He is an “anchor baby,” the recipient of birthright citizenship.
Mexican soldiers escort Edgar Jimenez Lugo, known as “El Ponchis,” in Cuernavaca, Mexico, at the time of his arrest in December 2010, when he was 14. Having served three years behind bars — then the maximum for a minor. He now lives in the U.S., where he was born. (Antonio Sierra / Associated Press)
“Lugo ‘returned’ to America,” wrote Coulter in her book being released Monday by Regnery Publishing. “This country was helpless to stop him — at least until someone notices that our anchor baby policy is based on the mental delusion of one Supreme Court justice,” she added.
Her book warns that illegal immigration is crushing America, and that Washington and the mainstream media are ignoring the issue to help Democrats in an alleged effort to boost voter roles by being sympathetic and supportive to illegal immigrants.
She blasts former Supreme Court Justice William Brennan for interpreting the 14th Amendment to grant citizenship to illegals, and even notes that Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid tried to reverse the decision.
Secrets was provided with a copy of Coulter’s book.
In “Adios America, The Left’s Plan To Turn Our Country Into A Third World Hellhole,” Coulter charges that the media is playing a role in helping the Left cover up Mexico’s crimes, especially beheadings. She notes that the practice has been going on for years in Mexico, and has even crossed into the United States.
But, she writes, the press is only focused on the Islamic State beheadings. In fact, she cites reports that supposed videos of the beheadings took place in Mexico. She did a search of news reports on Mexican and ISIS beheadings and found 1,692 by the Islamic terrorist group and two about Mexican gangs. “Where’s the 24-7 coverage for these champion beheaders,” she asks.
Lugo is among the most famous killers in Mexico. While born in California, he spent his young life in Mexico and became a killer for a drug cartel. He is believed to be living in Texas.
Here’s how the Los Angeles Times described him when he was released from jail: “The killer, Edgar Jimenez Lugo, known to Mexican crime reporters as ‘El Ponchis,’ is 17 years old. He was 11 when he killed his first victim, and he was 14 when he was arrested, in December 2010, at the Cuernavaca airport, along with luggage containing two handguns and packets of cocaine.”
Coulter has her own description: “One of Mexico’s most notorious beheaders is now living freely in the United States because of Justice Brennan’s footnote. In 2010, fourteen-year-old Edgar Jimenez Lugo beheaded four men in the wealthy resort town of Cuernavaca, Mexico, and hung their corpses from a bridge over a busy road, their heads and genitals lying nearby. Although Lugo was raised entirely in Mexico, his illegal alien mother had given birth to him in San Diego. So after serving a quick three-year sentence in Mexico for four dismemberments, Lugo ‘returned’ to America.”
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
