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The illegal visitors had one more major obstacle to pass: an INS checkpoint on Interstate 5, where agents kept a sharp watch for vehicles heavily weighted toward the rear or bouncing oddly. Those are clues that pollos may be hiding in the trunks of cars or under the floorboards of...
The INS, which generally counts itself lucky to nab half the incoming aliens even temporarily, tabulated a record 1,251,357 arrests during fiscal 1983, up 22% from the previous year and just about double the figure a decade earlier. In the current fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, arrests...
A growing number of immigrants are Salvadorans and other Central Americans fleeing guerrilla war and political oppression as well as economic deprivation. But the largest group is composed of Mexicans who see little chance of earning a satisfactory living in their crowded homeland. To enter the U.S. most pay $250...
For all 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...
The opponents of Simpson-Mazzoli, however, have been unable to offer any convincing alternative. Some contend that tighter enforcement of wage-and-hour laws in the U.S. and beefing up the INS border patrols could slow the tide of aliens. That seems unlikely; Cornelius, for one, believes that only "fullscale...