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...live in the U.S., according to the Pew Hispanic Center, and an average of 485,000 more arrive every year. In response, state legislatures considered nearly 300 bills on immigration policy in the first half of 2005 alone, but passed just 47. While some states address the challenges facing migrant workers with families, others are trying to crack down on illegal immigration SUPPORTIVE LEGISLATION Washington State Reversed a 2002 measure and restored health-care coverage to children regardless of their immigration status...
...Iraq was poor and short term. The U.S. may have won some games in Iraq, but it has definitely lost the championship. Yet it dares to speak of win-win withdrawal scenarios. Christo Christopoulos Athens Cash Is King "Follow The Money," about the billions in cash remittances that migrant workers the world over send to their families back home [Dec. 5], noted that much of that money is sent by unofficial means, appears on no records and is never reported to tax officials. But it isn't only poor migrants and their families who avoid paying host-country taxes...
DIED. PAT MORITA, 73, actor nominated for an Academy Award for his quietly wise, wry Mr. Miyagi, the martial-arts mentor in 1984's The Karate Kid and its three sequels; of natural causes; in Las Vegas. Born in California to migrant fruit-pickers, Morita lived in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. At 30, the aspiring comic gave up his day job to focus on acting, first winning national fame as Arnold, owner of the restaurant favored by Fonzie and friends in the sitcom Happy Days...
...reality that there is virtually no labor market for physically demanding, low-wage jobs in agriculture, construction and hospitality. "In fact, we have to compete for [illegal workers] now," says Jay Taylor, president of Taylor & Fulton Farms, a tomato concern based in Palmetto, Fla. "It used to be migrant workers were just vegetable-and-fruit pickers or housekeepers. But look at the incredible housing boom we've had in Florida in recent years. Now they're being sought out by roofing contractors, lawn-maintenance companies, the hotel and restaurant industry. The native-born American worker stopped coming to us several...
...DIED. PAT MORITA, 73, actor nominated for an Academy Award for his wise, wry Mr. Miyagi, the martial-arts mentor in 1984's The Karate Kid and its three sequels; in Las Vegas. Born in California to migrant fruit-pickers, Morita lived with his family in a U.S. internment camp for Japanese during World War II. The aspiring comic entered show business at 30 and first won national fame as Arnold, manager of the teen hangout in the 1970s-'80s sitcom Happy Days...