Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confidence of big institutions to back me by putting together projects that work. In the U.S., if you have a good idea, people will support you." Ebrahimi, who received a master's degree in civil engineering from the University of Maryland in 1966, once ran a manufactured- housing concern in Iran that had 5,000 employees...
Much of the concern comes from people who favor continued immigration, but who fear the consequences if a slowdown in the economy were to heighten the sense that immigrants, especially illegal ones, take jobs away from Americans. "We could have a terrible backlash, a terrible period of repression," warns the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame and chairman of the Select Commission on Immigration that was established by Congress in 1978. "People tend to forget that twice in our lifetime, this country has rounded up hundreds of thousands of Mexicans and pushed them back over the border.* That...
...with the best intentions on all sides, the question of how to fit all these varieties of strangers into a relatively coherent American society remains difficult. Linda Wong, a Chinese-American official of the Mexican- American Legal Defense and Education Fund, sees trouble in the racial differences. "There is concern among whites that the new immigrants may be unassimilable," says Wong. "Hispanics and Asians cannot melt in as easily, and the U.S. has always had an ambivalent attitude toward newcomers. Ambivalent at best, racist at worst...
...illegally. The Wyoming Senator and his supporters argue that failure to act decisively in the present entails a major risk in the future: resentment, xenophobia and an eventual backlash against all immigrants. Says Simpson: "Illegal immigration endangers a fair and generous policy of legal immigration." The concern is generally shared by those responsible for enforcing immigration laws. "Nothing is going to blow up right away," says Alan Nelson, commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. "But eventually a public rebellion is likely if we don't do something. So why don't we do it now and prevent trouble...
...every reason to share Assad's concern over the fundamentalist Shi'ites' growing power. A permanently radicalized Lebanon would doubtless try to sow subversion among moderate Arab states throughout the Persian Gulf, many of them U.S. allies and oil suppliers...