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Tangi Boston, 22, is one of the proudest students in the program. A former pharmacist's assistant, she says that the challenging curriculum at Philadelphia has changed her goals. Says she: "I never thought I could get anything but menial jobs. I want more than that now. I want a career." In January, Boston, who plans to study law eventually, will transfer to Philadelphia's La Salle College. She will be in an honors program there as well...
...debated issue is jobs. The Department of Labor has estimated that one illegal immigrant in five is performing a job that would be done by an American worker. Most economists, however, call this estimate inflated, arguing that the degree of displacement is small. By and large, undocumented immigrants have menial, low-paying jobs in restaurants, hotels or factories, or work in the fields. "They take lousy jobs that American workers do not want," says M.I.T. Economics Professor Michael Piore. Hector, an undocumented worker in Phoenix, has achieved a comfortable middle-class life for his family-three color television sets...
...Liquor, drugs and sex are forbidden, and smoking is not allowed in the dormitories. For entertainment, the shelter provides Bible classes and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. For up to seven days a month, the 70 or so men and women who live at the shelter must work at menial tasks around the county...
...factor that may discourage even greater participation is that candidates often want students to "get out into the wards" to make last-minute pleas for votes. Many Harvard students consider themselves above such menial work, he adds with a smile...
...plagued by miscues and poor planning. Alerted to the impending sweeps by news reports, some workers stayed away from their jobs to avoid encounters with INS agents. Some skilled illegal aliens were found employed as steelworkers and machinists, but many of the raids were on businesses offering mostly lowpaying, menial jobs. The raids often seemed more trouble than they were worth. In the Detroit area, for example, 40 sweeps netted a grand total of 34 illegal aliens. At the Utica Packing Co., some 30 miles north of Detroit, 20 agents rounded up 24 suspected aliens in a search that effectively...