Word: alienation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...however limited, the effect of official pressure on the students was akin to direct censorship. It's a concept that one would think alien at an institution that so proudly and so often trumpets the ideals of academic freedom...
...however limited, the effect of official pressure on the students was akin to direct censorship. It's a concept that one would think alien at an institution that so proudly and so often trumpets the ideals of academic freedom...
...however limited, the effect of official pressure on the students was akin to direct censorship. It's a concept that one would think alien at an institution that so proudly and so often trumpets the ideals of academic freedom...
...Phillipses decided to cooperate after Immigration officials informed them that a girl they had adopted earlier was an illegal alien. The INS allowed them to keep the child because the parents believed the adoption was legal. Other couples duped by the ring have been traced to eight states from California to New York. Authorities say they will allow these parents to keep their children if they were adopted innocently. The Tijuana ring is believed to have smuggled in nearly as many Mexican infants over the past two years as had come in legally for adoption...
Thomas Muller, an immigration expert at the Urban Institute, a Washington- based think tank, argues that the large numbers of illegal aliens in the U.S. are less a problem than a manifestation of American economic dynamism. "We have always depended on some low-wage labor," he says. "The illegal alien situation today is the continuation of a pattern." Muller's assertion may help explain one of the glaring contradictions of current U.S. immigration policy: the meager funding given to the INS to apply existing laws. The INS enforcement budget for 1985 comes to only $366 million for a staff...