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This week's issue contains 80 editorial pages, making it the largest in TIME's history. To produce it, the editors drew on the magazine's extensive resources in the U.S., including dozens of correspondents in ten bureaus, plus scores of editors, writers and reporter-researchers on the New York staff. Senior Editor Henry Muller, who oversaw the issue, traveled to California to meet with immigrant leaders, illegal aliens and law-enforcement officials. He joined a nighttime border patrol south of San Diego and crossed into Mexico. Muller brought a special perspective to the task, for he is himself...
...said that nearly half of all living Americans can track their ancestry through the imposing Great Hall on Ellis Island, once the nation's largest immigration station. No wonder, then, that a drive to make a national museum of the cracked, peeling facility, along with its famous next-door neighbor, the Statue of Liberty, has not gone wanting for funds. Ellis Island, Statue of Liberty -- their very names seem to pop latches off pocketbooks...
...their ranks have been swelling at an unprecedented rate since the reform of immigration laws in 1965. Last year alone, more Asian immigrants came to the U.S. -- 282,000 -- than in the three decades from 1931 to 1960. More than half settled in California, which has the nation's largest Asian population (64%). The torrent of new arrivals is not likely to diminish in the foreseeable future: about 1 million other Asians have already applied and received preliminary clearance to come to America. By the year 2010, the Asian population in the U.S. is expected to more than double...
...newcomers are drastically changing the Asian-American mix. The 1980 census showed that Japanese Americans, the largest Asian subgroup since 1910, have dropped to third place (701,000), after Chinese Americans (806,000) and Filipino Americans (775,000). Japanese Americans play almost no role in the current wave of Asian immigration. Within the next 30 years, demographers expect Filipinos to become the largest group of Asian Americans, followed in order by Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese, Asian Indians and, in sixth place, Japanese...
...Koreans' experience is echoed in New York City by the Indians and Pakistanis who dominate the city's newsstand business. An estimated 70% of New York's 5,000 kiosks are under their control. One of the largest operators is Bhawnesh Kapoor, 43, president of Kapoor Bros., which has more than 200 outlets and about $17 million in annual revenues...