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...wearing the black of mourning for her husband, who died last September in exile in Hawaii. As she enters, eyes are inexorably drawn to her feet. What cake was to Marie Antoinette, shoes are to Imelda, who had 2,700 pairs in her closet in the presidential residence in Manila. Newsday runs a daily shoe- watch photo, but she now tends to wear modest black pumps...
From Guatemala to Thailand to Mexico, smugglers brazenly promote their services in newspapers or on radio stations. In Manila former U.S. embassy employees advertise their own smuggling operation on storefronts right across from the embassy. As in any other industry, a global pricing system has evolved. At the top: Chinese citizens from Taiwan, Hong Kong or the People's Republic, who generally pay $20,000 to $38,000 apiece. At the bottom: Mexicans and Dominicans, who are brought into the U.S. for $50 to $1,000. "It's a sliding scale depending on how far you travel and how familiar...
Some smugglers actually capitalize on specific IRCA programs. Max Dulay, a travel agent in Manila, earned $3 million bringing 300 to 400 Filipinos into the U.S. over a two-year period ending with his arrest in 1988. Dulay cashed in on the Special Agricultural Workers program, which gave legal status to farm workers who could claim at least 90 days of employment in the U.S. prior to 1986. Dulay used fake passports to bring small groups of Filipinos to Los Angeles (and sometimes to New York City and Chicago). He then transported them to a farm in central California...
...Scene: Manila city jail...
...ties that bind the West Coast to Asia are not merely cultural but also financial. At the news of the earthquake that ravaged the San Francisco Bay area last October, Wall Street barely blinked. But in Tokyo, Manila and Hong Kong, stock markets dipped nervously. The Pacific coastland is a 20th century Asia Minor, a continent in miniature, with a diversity of mores and languages not matched anywhere else. Among those who have sunk roots are Cambodians, Thais, Filipinos, Koreans, Japanese, Indians, Vietnamese, Indochinese hill people, and Chinese from the People's Republic, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Most hold...