Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...James ideal would not die. During Britain's General Strike of 1926, chaos beckoned; instead the populace cooperated, and the nation was actually strengthened by the imminence of peacetime catastrophe. In the '30s Depression, the moral equivalent of war was articulated and taken literally by the Roosevelt Administration. Men of military age marched with shovels instead of rifles in the Civilian Conservation Corps...
...others have squeezed through the San Antonio sewerage system. No commandos or assault troops have shown more ingenuity and determination in storming a country that tries to keep them out. They are the illegal immigrants who come not to destroy but to enjoy the blessings of the most prosperous nation on earth...
This incessant invasion presents the U.S. with a basic dilemma. A nation of immigrants is reluctant to reject other immigrants, particularly those who want to get ahead in the best American tradition. Few come for a handout; they are anxious to make a living. An illegal alien who is currently employed as an industrial painter in Brooklyn used to live on a South Pacific island where he dreamed of the American paradise of hard work. "It is the obsession of every islander," he says, "to come and be rewarded for what he does"-a dream shared round the world...
...there is growing apprehension that the illegal immigrant's dream-come-true may turn out to be a nation al nightmare. The AFL-CIO argues that the illegals not only take jobs away from Americans but force down wage levels by being willing to work for low salaries. The INS estimates that the newcomers cost the American taxpayer $13 billion a year in social services, and aggravate the already unfavorable balance of payments by annually sending home $3 billion-or more...
...have the job of trying to persuade Mexico to reduce the flow of illegal immigrants to the north. As an incentive, Carter's program is expected to include economic aid to Mexico to help set up labor-intensive projects, with an emphasis on farming, that will reduce the nation's chronic unemployment. That may help some, but certainly not enough. In the years ahead, the U.S. is likely to continue to be burdened with the fact that it is still pre-eminently the land of opportunity and promise-and that hundreds of thousands of people who cannot immigrate...