Word: alienates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...probably 2.1 million in all. And they are different in a critical respect from all the other ethnic arrivals: the immigrant from Mexico comes from near by to what was, until 1848, Mexican national territory. He arrives feeling as much like a migrant as an immigrant, not an illegal alien but a reconquistador...
...illegal alien population swells, a controversy roils over the effects of this "invisible" underclass on society. INS officials estimate that illegal immigrants cost the U.S. $4 billion annually in benefits, lost income taxes and wages that would otherwise go to Americans. Another study by the Environmental Fund, a Washington research group, puts the cost at $ 14 billion. It is also estimated that Mexicans ship $3 billion a year to their families back home. With easily forged documents, some illegals get all the perks of citizenship, including welfare, unemployment benefits, food stamps and Medicaid. Many illegals are paid in cash...
...illegal immigrants a free public education. In Los Angeles County, officials say the annual cost of educating these children runs as high as $415 million. Texas spends about $50 million. In Brownsville, on the Texas border, School Superintendent Raul Besteiro estimates that there are some 2,000 illegal alien children among the 30,000 children in his school district. The city has 350 portable classrooms to handle the overflow. Asks a frustrated Besteiro: "Why should Brownsville taxpayers have to pay for construction for people who illegally cross our border...
...person or persons who assembled them may never be identified, but they were almost certainly connected in some way to the secret police of Tsar Nicholas II. The apparent motive was to discredit radical and progressive groups within Russia by making them appear dupes of alien Jewish machinations. In 1921, a reporter for the London Times found the sources from which the Protocols had been lifted. The notion of Jewish leaders plotting secretly came from a novel called Biarritz (1868) by Hermann Goedsche, a German who used the pen name Sir John Retcliffe. Most of the language and ideas...
...government has unwittingly undermined its case with less-than-convincing assurances that census information would be treated confidentially. Official credibility was certainly not helped by disclosures that Munich census takers would be paid a bonus of $1 for every unregistered German they turned up and $2 for each illegal alien...