Word: florida
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...became Miss Texas this year and finally Miss U.S.A., the first Hispanic and the first foreign-born contestant to win the title, which brings with it $175,000 in cash and prizes, as well as a screen test. This summer she will compete in the Miss Universe contest in Florida. "I feel like an equal combination of Mexican and American. When the Spanish went into Mexico, they went to conquer. But when the immigrants came to the U.S., they came to work together to build a great country. We are all immigrants here. Americans have no limitations. We put limitations...
...Academy of Sciences study issued last week denounced the INS statistics as "woefully inadequate" and put the total of illegals at no more than 2 million to 4 million. These include anyone from German students who deliberately overstay their visas to Haitian boat people who scramble ashore in South Florida, but roughly 60% of the illegals are Hispanics, and about two-thirds of these are Mexicans driven by poverty and unemployment across the highly porous 2,000-mile southern frontier...
...they do. "Every house needs a door, and every country needs a border," says Colorado's Democratic Governor Richard Lamm. If the U.S. fails to stop illegal immigration, he warns, "we shall leave a legacy of strife, violence and job-lessness for our children." Florida's Senator Lawton Chiles is equally alarmist. "If we do not regain control of our borders . . . I think that within ten years, we will not recognize the United States as the United States we see today...
...their effect is heightened because they have converged on the main cities of half a dozen states. Nowhere is the change more evident than in California, which has become home to 64% of the country's Asians and 35% of its Hispanics. Next comes New York, followed by Texas, Florida, Illinois and New Jersey. Miami is 64% Hispanic, San Antonio 55%. Los Angeles has more Mexicans (2 million) than any other city except metropolitan Mexico City, and nearly half as many Salvadorans (300,000) as San Salvador...
...dial in the Southwest. Researchers in conservative Protestant seminaries analyze evangelistic strategies. Personal contacts are stressed. Says Catholic Archbishop Robert Sanchez of Santa Fe, N. Mex.: "They're out there ringing doorbells and going into people's homes. That's hard to beat." The Rev. Tony Arango, pastor of Florida's growing East Hialeah Baptist Church, whose membership is heavily Cuban, says, "Our witnessing is done by all our members. We believe in the aggressive approach...