Word: enterances
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there's a clear division between my writing and the way I package it so that I'm never compromsing in my writing...I feel like I've never written to order, but once I have written things, I do think it's sort of amusing to see them enter into a kind of traditional framework. So that for instance people tease me about having been made a Chevalier de I'Ordre des Arts et Lettres. But my feeling is, gee, I must be the first openly gay writer to have received that award, and I'm just old enough...
That prospect hardly pleases everyone. The new immigrants enter a country whose population of 258 million has comfortably filled the land and is worried about overpopulation and a threatened environment. Many are alarmed by a projection that if the immigrant tide continues, the U.S. population will rise to 392 million by the middle of the next century. The sluggish performance of the American economy, accompanied by persistent unemployment, makes aliens once again appear a threat to jobs. In particular, the growth of illegal immigration and the government's inability to stanch the flow are a constant irritant to Americans...
...explosion, police round up a string of Arab immigrants as suspects, including an Egyptian radical who was admitted to the U.S. by mistake. Off the shore of New York's Long Island, a rusty tramp steamer called the Golden Venture runs aground, disgorging nearly 300 frightened Chinese trying to enter the country illegally; 10 die. Newly elected President Bill Clinton, reneging on a campaign promise, denies entry to Haitian boat people, then is blindsided by hostile public reaction when his first two choices for Attorney General turn out to have hired illegal immigrants as household help. When Texas border patrols...
...country stronger or weaker. Economic studies abound claiming that immigration spurs new businesses and new taxpayers. With no less conviction, others contend that immigrants and their children evade taxes and overburden local welfare, health and education systems. To compound the confusion, many Americans believe -- wrongly -- that more foreigners enter the country illegally than do legally. As the doubts grow, so does the potential for backlash. Polls show that almost two-thirds of Americans favor new laws to cut back on all immigrants and asylum seekers -- legal as well as illegal. Though immigration is often regarded as a single issue, some...
...around the world, often as a cover for economic migration. U.S. applications were up to 103,000 last year, and the backlog tops 300,000 cases. Under the present asylum rules, practically anyone who declares that he or she is fleeing political oppression has a good chance to enter the U.S. Chinese are almost always admitted, for example, if they claim that China's birth-control policies have limited the number of children they can have...