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With 80% of the illegal alien population originating in Mexico, Carter's plan has upset many Hispanics already holding U.S. citizenship. Chief reason: the provision letting 1970-76 illegal immigrants stay on only temporarily. California Congressman Edward R. Roybal, leader of the House's five-member Hispanic caucus, charges that this will create a new "sub-class of braceros "-the Mexican laborers who under much criticized programs from 1942 to 1964 were granted temporary papers to work on U.S. farms and then sent home at the end of the harvest. Carter's class of temporary residents would...
...fear that it will only encourage more illegal immigrants to cross the border, adding to the burden on al ready overtaxed U.S. services and taking more jobs that might be held by American citizens. Specifically, Carter wants to grant permanent resident status-and the right to apply for eventual citizenship-to all aliens who entered the U.S. illegally before 1970. That group, however, totals no more than 500,000 persons. Those who came in between 1970 and the end of last year-perhaps as many as 10 million of the illegals-would fall into a newly created category of temporary...
...program is being fought by the National Coalition for Fair Immigration Laws and Practices, an amalgam of several organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Indian Movement. For different reasons, both legal and illegal Hispanic residents find dangers in the Carter plan. Those who hold U.S. citizenship are fearful that the program would empower federal agents to harass Hispanics in general in an intensified search for those without proper papers. If Hispanic leaders accept the five-year work permit idea, insists Alberto Juarez, director of a legal aid program in East Los Angeles, "we will be lulling...
During the debate, Adler returned to a pet theory: that the good life promised by American democracy will come only when liberal education is truly universal. Said Adler: "We are hypocrites if we continue to think that the equality of citizenship belongs to all, but not the equality of educational opportunity...
...native Panama. Says he proudly: "I'm the only athlete ever to have won it." The feeling reveals something of his deep and continuing attachment to his Latin background. Although he has now lived in the U.S. longer than in Panama, he has not sought American citizenship. Asked by a reporter what it would be like to be an American folk hero, he replied with some astonishment: "I'm a Panamanian citizen. How can I be an American folk hero?" He explains: "I've kept my citizenship because to most kids down there...