If the Fu Hsits Part III With A Gratuitous Fuk Ching Thrown In

The American Spectator has new information on those shady donations that Mrs. Clinton has been collecting from Chinese dishwashers.

In a 2001 article entitled "From Fujian to New York: Understanding the New Chinese Immigration" (posted on a U.S. Department of State website), authors Zai Liang and Wenzhen Ye write that "...most of the recent undocumented Chinese immigrants have come from rural Fujian and have mainly settled in the New York metropolitan area." The authors add, "Furthermore, there has been a heavy concentration of Fujianese immigrants in some sections of Manhattan's Chinatown; for example, some have called East Broadway "Fuzhou Street."

One story of Fujianese smuggled into the U.S. by "snakeheads" became public on June 6, 1993 when the tramp freighter, Golden Venture, ran aground off Queens with 286 emaciated Chinese abroad. Ten drowned. On March 16, 2006 Cheng Chui Ping, the snakehead who ran the smuggling enterprise, was sentenced to 35 years in prison. In his April 24, 2006 article in the New Yorker magazine entitled "The Snakehead," Patrick Radden Keefe told the Golden Venture story and noted Ms. Cheng's address as 47 East Broadway -- it's in the box. Keefe wrote, "While ships no longer deposit smuggled Fujianese directly on U.S. shores, officials say that there is no evidence to indicate that the total number of Fujianese entering the country illegally has diminished in the years since the Golden Venture incident." They are still coming.

Peter Kwong, Professor of Asian American Studies, Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College, Manhattan, is an expert on the fate of Fujianese immigrants smuggled into the U.S. He used the word "trap" to describe the ethnic enclaves where they settle. "Not only are the immigrants doomed to perpetual subcontracted employment, but the social and political control of these enclaves in also subcontracted to ethnic elites, who are free to set their own legal and labor standards for the entire community without ever coming under the scrutiny of U.S. authorities....After arrival in the United States, they are forced to work for years under what amounts to indentured servitude to pay off large 'transportation' debts with constant threats of torture, rape, and kidnapping."

The Department of Justice study estimates total fees assessed each smuggled immigrant to be $50,000-$60,000. As was done by Ms. Cheng, Chinese street gangs, in her case the Fuk Ching gang, are often hired to enforce fee collections.

Yep. Sounds like just the sort of thing that we look for in presidential candidates.