Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces
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Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores (ISBN 0-89526-075-1) is a 2002 book
Book
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 written by political commentator and author Michelle Malkin
Michelle Malkin
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...

. In it, she states that the U.S. immigration
Immigration
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 system is plagued by bureaucratic
Bureaucracy
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 inertia, political correctness
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, corruption and pressure from corporate special interests, that weaknessess in the US immigration system played a role in the September 11, 2001 attacks
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, and that criminals and terrorists are able to exploit loopholes to get into the United States
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.

In an interview on the Dr. Laura Show
Laura Schlessinger
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, Michelle Malkin summarized her book as follows:

Reviews

The book was reviewed primarily in conservative opinion journals. Malkin complained that the mainstream media ignored it.
VDARE
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 founder Peter Brimelow
Peter Brimelow
Peter Brimelow is a British American financial journalist, author, and founder of VDARE. Brimelow has been the editor of many publications, including Forbes, the Financial Post, and National Review...

 wrote of Malkin's book: "It may not advance her career. But it is a signal service to her country." NewsMax.com
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 gave it positive coverage. FrontPage's review stated that "Malkin deserves praise for calling attention to problems that even many conservatives would prefer to ignore."

The book was reviewed in National Review
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, Reason Magazine, and Human Events
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, and reached #14 on the New York Times best-seller list.

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