Word: alienment
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...stickers resembling the state license plate but proudly emblazoned with the word NATIVE. Longtime residents, naturally, felt left out. Equally resentful of the newcomers, they hit the highways with a sticker of their own: SEMI-NATIVE. The immigrants decided to fight back, and before very long, Coloradans were sighting ALIEN vehicles and others labeled FOREIGNER or TRANSPLANT. RESTLESS NATIVES were seen roaming the interstates. Some, lacking a native sense of humor, asked WHO CARES? Came the inevitable answer, I CARE...
...exploitation of alien labor has also led to the mistreatment of American workers. Says Craig Berrington, a Labor Department official who oversees investigations of wage law violations: "We cannot identify any particular job where there is only abuse of illegal aliens. We see them working side by side, illegal immigrants and U.S. citizens...
...Reagan Administration plans to respond to the alien crisis this week with a new set of guidelines on immigration. The proposals, which must be approved by Congress, would increase slightly the number of legal immigrants allowed into the U.S. At the same time, the Government would try to stanch the flow of illegal aliens by strengthening the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and by levying penalties on employers who hire illegal aliens...
...most important part of Reagan's program, however, is the crackdown on illegal aliens. The Administration wants to increase the INS budget by $150 million, partly to provide more agents to patrol the Mexican-American border. Reagan also proposes to fine businesses that employ four or more people up to $1,000 for each illegal alien they hire. Although Reagan has rejected Attorney General Smith's proposal for a counterfeit-proof Social Security card, the Administration will recommend that an alien job seeker must produce two forms of identification for employers and must sign a form swearing that...
...From that one, in Viet Nam, the boys came home alone, mostly one by one. Sometimes they would arrive in the middle of the night, almost as if they were sneaking back. It was an abrupt, surreal transition?36 hours earlier, they had been in Nam, humping through that alien place with too much firepower and confusion and moral responsibility on their backs. Then they were plucked out of their bizarre yearlong excursion, set down in commercial jetliners, the stewardesses passing among them like sweet American hallucinations, Hefner visions, and dropped out of the sky back into an America that...