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...called illegal aliens. It estimates that four times that many entered during the year, and that 6 million to 8 million illegals are living in every cranny of the land. It is a difficult number of people to keep track of -much less track down. INS Commissioner Leonard F. Chapman Jr. claims that 1 million of them hold jobs that might be filled by unemployed citizens...
Statue Painters. An increasing number of illegals have landed desirable jobs. According to Chapman, more than a third now employed are working in industry. Some Mexicans who have entered Texas illegally earn close to $5 an hour in small factories; one was even found managing a Laredo plastics plant at $20,000 a year. The INS'S files include reports of a Greek plumber earning $12 an hour, a Jamaican carpenter earning $7 an hour and a West Indian electronics engineer taking in $17,000 a year. An immigration raid on a Miami restaurant turned up 14 illegally entered...
Outright Fraud. Getting into the U.S.-and staying there-is relatively easy. Only 1,700 border agents police the nation's lengthy northern and southern perimeters, and the INS has a mere 900 investigators working in the nation's cities. Concedes Chapman: "Some 80% to 90% of the illegal aliens in this country are virtually beyond our reach." At least 300,000 persons arriving last year in the U.S. as tourists or students simply failed to leave. Tens of thousands more are spirited in by professional smugglers, who command as much as $1,500 for their services. Others...
...manner of the 38,000 Hungarians who escaped to America after the 1956 revolution was crushed by the Soviets. Like the Cubans and the Hungarians, the Vietnamese are mostly middle-class people who should be able to overcome social obstacles and make a decent living. Says INS Commissioner Leonard Chapman: "The Vietnamese are hardworking, honorable, highly religious, artistic, and they have a great sense of family." Their staying power, moreover, has already been cruelly tested. Notes Harvard Sociologist Tom Pettigrew: "In such a murderous war, most people would not have shown themselves to be tough and so persistent. I think...
After the ceremony broke up, the previously unidentified men came out from behind their cloak of gray flannel. Of the ten surviving Holmes clerks, seven had made it to the ceremony: Chauncey Belknap, Thomas G. Corcoran, Lawrence Curtis, H. Chapman Rose, Robert W. Wales, and Alger Hiss and his brother Donald...