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...most important part of Reagan's program, however, is the crackdown on illegal aliens. The Administration wants to increase the INS budget by $150 million, partly to provide more agents to patrol the Mexican-American border. Reagan also proposes to fine businesses that employ four or more people up to $1,000 for each illegal alien they hire. Although Reagan has rejected Attorney General Smith's proposal for a counterfeit-proof Social Security card, the Administration will recommend that an alien job seeker must produce two forms of identification for employers and must sign a form swearing that...
...proposals have already come under harsh attack. Tony Bonilla, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, has denounced the amnesty plan as "tantamount to establishing serfdom." Some conservative Republicans oppose employer sanctions as yet another form of Government regulation. The Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund says the sanctions will lead to job discrimination against Hispanics. Other critics argue that without a certain method of identifying illegal aliens, sanctions will be impossible to enforce. Nonetheless, there is little support for a national I.D. card. Acknowledges Republican Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming, who supports some kind...
...Antonio elects the first big-city Mexican-American mayor...
...children and chatted with old people in Spanish. Polls showed that his lead was diminishing rapidly over his nearest rival, John Steen, a wealthy insurance executive from the city's heavily Anglo North Side. At stake: the opportunity to make Cisneros, despite a tantalizingly close race, the first Mexican-American mayor of a major American city. "Now is the time, compadres," the slim, Harvard-educated city councilman told them simply. "If on the day after the election I hear you saying 'Poor Henry, if only I had known you needed my help,' I think I will...
...that the costs may end up being borne by the Hispanic working people who helped elect him - and who account for most of the city's 6.6% unemployment rate (vs. 4.2% in Dallas and Houston). For them, the novelty of having the nation's first big-city Mexican-American mayor may quickly wear thin. Acknowledges Cisneros: "I'm not interested in being the first anything. I just want to be the best I can be." By - RussHoyte. Reported by Robert C. Wurmstedt/San Antonio