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Enclaves of foreign-born businessmen can be found in almost every major American city. Yet each area and ethnic group has its own particular style. Their one common characteristic is hard work. Young Jun Kwon, 37, a Korean- born greengrocer in New York City, is typical. His workday starts at 2 a.m. and ends at 8 p.m. By dawn, he has already selected and loaded about 3,000 lbs. of fresh produce into his 1982 Dodge pickup van and hauled it to his Brooklyn store. There Young joins his wife Ok Kyung, 31, and his brother Young...
Some of the most influential foreign-born businessmen in Houston are Iranians, many of whom fled their country in the late 1970s, around the time of the fall of the Shah. They have since flocked to real estate, and are currently constructing developments ranging from housing to shopping centers. Says Ali Ebrahimi, 43, whose company, Ersa Grae, has built five subdivisions in Houston and two more in Nashville: "What I have been able to do with very little money is to attract the confidence of big institutions to back me by putting together projects that work...
...probability, though, the Americanization of Hispanics will be far more rapid and thorough than any Hispanicization of Anglo culture. Businessmen, Roman Catholic clergymen and politicians in Hispanic areas find it useful and sometimes essential to learn Spanish. But an Anglo lawyer in Coral Gables, Fla., who took the trouble to learn some limited Spanish now finds that most of his Hispanic clients prefer to speak to him in English. Says the lawyer: "America triumphs over these immigrants as it has over others." A survey of Midwestern Hispanic voters by the Midwest Voter Education Project probably is unrepresentative, since many Hispanics...
...process with those concerned with it having so little idea of its potential effects. No one can say for sure whether immigration reform can be made to work, what it might cost and, most important, whether it would ultimately help or hurt the country. In that informational vacuum, politicians, businessmen, labor leaders, minority representatives and social scientists have taken positions on all sides of the issue. President Reagan is maintaining a discreet profile, hoping only for a policy that is "fair and nondiscriminatory...
...bill would require anyone employing four or more people to demand documentation that establishes each person's identity and eligibility for work. That is slightly less onerous than the requirement in Simpson's earlier legislation that employers fill out forms to show they had properly screened candidates. Many businessmen oppose sanctions because of the additional paper work and because they believe that certain industries need cheap immigrant labor to survive. Hispanic groups have criticized sanctions out of the fear that employers would discriminate against people with Spanish surnames to avoid trouble with...