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Simpson-Mazzoli is an intricate compromise, combining amnesty for many illegal immigrants already in the U.S. with a system of fines against employers who hire future evaders of the border patrols. The employer sanctions are supposed to dry up the supply of jobs for pollos. The bill has been attacked as both too soft and too tough, and denounced as "racist" by some Hispanic leaders. Indeed, its opponents span the ideological spectrum from Jesse Helms on the Republican right to Jesse Jackson on the Democratic left, and include both Walter Mondale and Gary Hart. Less political critics question whether Simpson...
This is the most bitterly disputed provision in the entire bill. Some civil liberties activists fear that the demand for documentation constitutes a step toward a fascist-style system of national identity cards. Hispanic leaders argue that biased employers would refuse to hire any workers with Spanish surnames or accents and, if challenged under civil rights laws, would claim they suspected that the applicants' documentation was phony. On a key vote last week, however, the House rejected, 304 to 120, an attempt by California Democrat Edward Roybal to strike employer fines from the bill. Backers of Simpson-Mazzoli...
...that, dispassionate critics of Simpson-Mazzoli seriously doubt that its approach can work. Some employers, they suspect, would willingly pay fines in order to continue hiring cheap immigrant labor, and the aliens could easily buy forged identity documents. Eleven states already have legislated penalties against employers who hire illegal immigrants, with little or no effect. California has had such a law on its books since 1971, and it probably draws more pollos than any other state. Moreover, these critics say, even a limited amnesty would set a precedent that might lure still more aliens across the border in the hope...
Ghostbusters is actually the trade name for a trio of rogue parapsychologists kicked out of academe for conduct unbecoming to scholarship and forced to set up shop as exorcists for hire. Lucky for them that they launch their venture just as the ectoplasmic underworld is about to go on a rampage. Unlucky for them that the Environmental Protection Agency, meddling with their facility for storing captured spirits, lets the damnable things loose. Panic in the streets! And glorious opportunities for political as well as paranormal satire...
Bundy has disputed Diamond on a number of points but it is clear now that Harvard did take quiet action against a number of people with past Communist activities, refusing to hire administrators and in one case an instructor. Bundy has said that the administrators were refused positions because academic freedom issues were not involved and that Harvard had to be particularly careful during the years of the McCarthy attack. In the case of the man up for an instructorship. Bundy has said that the decision was made by the Corporation and that he "disagreed." Pusey has been more quiet...