Word: mexicanized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anthropologist, has sold all rights to the story of the Tigris to the British Broadcasting Corp., which has assigned a cameraman to film the voyage from beginning to end. He has engaged a nine-man crew that includes an American, a Russian, an Italian, a Mexican, a Japanese, a German, two Scandinavians and an Iraqi (three Indian dhow skippers, hired to help navigate through some difficult waters on the route, withdrew from the expedition when they got a look at the craft...
Finally, as the INS would not need to hunt down illegal immigrants in the country, INS officials would no longer have to insult all Mexican-American citizens by requesting that they prove their citizenship because of the color of their skin...
UNFORTUNATELY, the humane originality of Carter's amnesty proposal does not carry over to his proposed guidelines for future immigration policy. He has not challenged the quotas established in Public Law 94571, the so-called Eilberg bill, which limits Mexican immigration to 20,000 annually. To enforce this limitation, Carter proposes increasing the guard at the border, a measure that has failed miserably in the past to stem significantly the flow of illegal immigration and offers little hope of doing so in the future. As professor of History John Womack '59, an expert in Latin American affairs has said...
...UNHAPPY FACT is that the illegal immigration problem cannot be solved by placing a few more guards along the border or by asking employers to stop hiring workers without papers. Heavy illegal immigration is a symptom of a more serious problem--the sad state of the Mexican economy. The U.S. economy can only be made to absorb so many millions of poor unemployed from Mexico. This is not to say there is nothing the United States can do to help, but ultimately Mexico will have to solve its own problems. The U.S. government cannot force the Mexican government to spend...
When the Dodgers went into the ninth inning of their third play-off game against Philadelphia trailing 4-3, the long season and all of Lasorda's rah-rah boosting of his team finally paid off. Vic Davalillo, fleet-footed salvage from the Mexican League, bunted safely. Manny Mota-told in the spring that his responsibility was pinch-hitting because "when you open your suitcase, four hits fall out"-doubled off the wall in left field. A flurry of Dodger hits and Los Angeles was one game away from the pennant. Asked what had been his instructions...