Word: pattern
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Ever since the first slave ships unloaded their human cargo 360 years ago, black Americans have witnessed a succession of determined immigrants -- Germans, Irish, Jews, Italians -- weather discrimination to achieve a measure of acceptance and economic success that far surpassed their own. Once again the pattern is repeating itself. With a mixture of animosity and admiration, and no small dose of resentment, blacks are watching the new immigrants from Asia and Latin America flourish where blacks have not. Already the median household income of Koreans, Vietnamese, Haitians, Cubans and Mexicans has climbed past that of blacks...
...unusual closeness of immigrant families makes this struggle for autonomy painful to both sides. High School Junior Imelda Ortiz plans to study engineering in college. Her parents expect her to attend the University of Houston while living at home, a pattern set by her two sisters. But Imelda wants to enroll in the University of Texas at Austin. "I'm afraid to go out on my own," she admits, "but even though it may turn out bad, at least I'll learn, right? I'll realize what is or is not for me." Le Giau and his wife Therese expect...
...Hispanic households consist of four or more people, vs. only 28% of all U.S. families. They keep coming too in such numbers that even if all illegal immigration could be stopped, the Hispanic population would still grow. Some 42% of legal immigrants are Hispanic, and they follow the classic pattern of sending for spouses, children and parents once the first family member has established a home...
Other Hispanics came to the U.S. primarily to escape the poverty of many of their homelands and frequently had to resolve serious doubts as to whether to stay. But they, too, follow the immigrant pattern of hard work and an uphill struggle. Some varied examples...
...Institute, a Washington- based think tank, argues that the large numbers of illegal aliens in the U.S. are less a problem than a manifestation of American economic dynamism. "We have always depended on some low-wage labor," he says. "The illegal alien situation today is the continuation of a pattern." Muller's assertion may help explain one of the glaring contradictions of current U.S. immigration policy: the meager funding given to the INS to apply existing laws. The INS enforcement budget for 1985 comes to only $366 million for a staff of 7,599, less than a third the number...