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...there is growing apprehension that the illegal immigrant's dream-come-true may turn out to be a nation al nightmare. The AFL-CIO argues that the illegals not only take jobs away from Americans but force down wage levels by being willing to work for low salaries. The INS estimates that the newcomers cost the American taxpayer $13 billion a year in social services, and aggravate the already unfavorable balance of payments by annually sending home $3 billion-or more...
...control the number of illegal aliens entering the U.S. in the future, the Administration is considering sanctions-presumably stiff fines-against employers who knowingly hire such immigrants. This approach is supported by the AFL-CIO, but has been bitterly resisted in Congress by farm-state representatives, notably Senator James Eastland of Mississippi, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, which would have to approve the bill...
...after announcing his abandonment of the $50 folly, Carter called his second press conference of the week, to disclose his anti-inflation program. As previously reported (TIME, April 18), it will rely chiefly on voluntary restraint by labor and management to keep prices down. At Carter's invitation, AFL-CIO President George Meany and General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones will help coordinate the private sector's antiinflation efforts. For its part, the Government will try to balance the budget by 1981, hold down unnecessary spending, moderate fluctuations in food supplies and other basic commodities, and slow increases in hospital costs...
Carr, the mine foreman and leader of the scabs, pistol in pocket, leaning over the hood of his pick-up and talking low: "Hoffa's a communist...Teamsters, they're all communists...AFL-CIO's all communist...what's gonna happen to the country when the unions get in?" Here is the leader of the striking miners, pleading with the men to continue picket duty six months into the strike despite court injunctions that could make them subject to jail sentences: "Hell, lawyers are made to get you out of trouble when...
...CIO and Congressmen from shoe-producing states voiced loud displeasure that Carter did not go for tougher restrictions. Free traders will not be overjoyed either, but they have less reason for dismay. Had Carter done no more than reject the ITC recommendation, Congress would probably have overridden his decision and forced enactment of the tariff boost; it might do so anyway. The decision indicates that even under heavy protectionist fire, the President will choose, if not all-out free trade, then as much free trade as he can get away with...