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...migrant waves that have swept into Chicago in the 125 years since the city mushroomed from the swamps, none have seemed so alien or posed such social problems as a recent influx of native-born white Americans. For the past five years, at the rate of more than 1,000 a week, displaced people of Anglo-Saxon stock have been swarming into the city from the scrubby hills, marginal farms and depressed coal-mining areas of Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama. For lack of a better term, Chicagoans concerned with the problem lump the minority under the label...
...roll out the tumor-a purplish, egg-shaped mass almost 3 ft. long. The patient's circulation faltered only for a moment when she was rolled onto her back. Now, Dr. Eames told the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, she is back in the fields as a migrant harvest hand...
...roads. The Forest Service called in National Guardsmen and volunteer crews from prisons (including the "Stanislaus Hotshots" who fought twelve forest fires without a single convict trying a single escape). It flew in 225 Zuni and Hopi Indian fire fighters, mobilized in all 1,200 men from foresters to migrant fruit pickers. Crew bosses hustled them through smoke and heat to the fire line, 40 miles long...
...voting trick that put the Communists where they are in San Marino arises from the fact that, of San Marino's 6,700 eligible male voters, some 1,700 live out of the country, mostly as migrant laborers. By paying round-trip fares for many of these expatriates at election time, the Communists rounded up enough votes to swing into power...
...wetback border crossings drastically; deportations, which averaged 80,000 a month in the 14 months before last September, are now running at less than 10,000 a month. The immigration machinery is running smoothly enough to handle an expected record number-350,000 to 400,000-of legal migrant workers this year. The coyote and his "bite" are left as the machinery's only serious defect...