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Based on the premise that undocumented migrant workers "take jobs from Americans," the employers' sanctions in S. 2222 are unlikely to work. Employers in southwestern states use Mexican farm labor systematically. Many of their businesses depend on the seasonal influx from south of the border. It's hard to see how a $2000 fine per illegal worker--levied only after two warnings and a lengthy adjudication process--would influence many growers to end this lucrative practice. In any case, by liberalizing the rules governing the so-called "H-2" seasonal workers program, S. 2222 actually increases some employers' incentive...
Other categories of new arrivals will not fare as well. While the rules governing migrant workers have been relaxed slightly to allow more of these laborers into the country for seasonal work, aliens seeking to prove in the courts their right to refugee or other legal status will no longer be able to use certain measures, like class-action suits, to do so. Other provisions may have the effect of reducing even legal immigration, which totaled some 425,000 people last year. Brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens have been struck from the list of immigrants granted first priority...
...invincible. The South African government has declared itself inalterably opposed to the dismantling of apartheid--a system of institutionalized segregation systematically stripping the country's million Blacks of their land and birthright, herding them like cattle into desolate reservations called bantustans and permitting them to emerge only as temporary migrant labor. Bank loans to the South African government therefore constitute a form of direct aid to state committed to the consolidation of apartheid rather than the desegregation and democratization of the existing white supremacist system. Accordingly, no loan to the South African government could be deemed humanitarian because its ultimate...
...with Western society and want to prevent the Soviets from taking possession of Africa," says the owner, a former mercenary. Adds a Belgian journalist who covers the mercenary beat: "They are often out of work, racist but not politically aware. They think that everything is the fault of the migrant workers. They are not very sharp intellectually, are fascinated by weapons and very much into the cult of strength, virility and male camaraderie." Eventually, the mercenary ethos becomes a way of life. For some, it is also a way of death. -By Jay D. Palmer. Reported by Peter Hawthorne/Johannesburg...
...democratic institutions. Much of the disappointment and blame has been directed against Suárez's cautious leadership, and a senior government official concedes: "We have lost momentum." The once thriving Spanish economy has slowed painfully. Unemployment, already over 10%, has been swollen by hundreds of thousands of migrant workers forced home by industrial cutbacks elsewhere on the Continent. Fully half a million of the jobless are young first-job seekers, a group that is prone to political exploitation. Though inflation has been halved in the past two years to about 15%, investments have been drying up because diminishing...