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Unfriendly commentators seized on their plight to complain that the rules under which Chinese immigrants, in particular, can claim political asylum are overly generous. Under a Bush-ordered loophole in the law, Chinese who say they are victimized by Beijing's strict one-child population rules can enter the country. But only the melodramatic circumstances of their entry make the Chinese unusual. Latinos, Indians, Pakistanis, Arabs and others -- especially those who get into the country illegally -- are also unwelcome to Americans who find their cultures strange. In a country composed almost entirely of immigrants and their descendants, heavy majorities -- around...
...created strange alliances and oppositions. Liberal Democrat Eugene McCarthy and Conservative Democrat Richard Lamm favor restricting immigration, as does archconservative Republican Pat Buchanan. Polls by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a black think tank, found that African Americans are far more sympathetic than whites to the plight of Haitian refugees, but also far more worried than whites about competition from immigrants for jobs. In Florida's Dade County, where 60% of the residents are now Spanish-speaking, the county commission voted unanimously to repeal a 1980 ordinance making English the sole language for official business. But their...
Each month the Thai embassy in Tokyo repatriates about 250 escapees. But Japanese officialdom has been largely indifferent to the plight of prostitutes, and there are several recorded instances in which police, especially in rural areas, have handed escaping girls back to their abusers. Three recent murders -- Thai prostitutes who killed their "Mama-sans," or female bosses, while trying to escape -- are focusing attention on the women's plight. Citizens' groups, believing the accused are less in the wrong than the deceased, are lobbying for a fair trial. "When I arrived in March 1991, I realized I was sold...
These were the lessons she sought to bring home to the class of 1993, referring specifically to the plight of America's children as perhaps the most urgent responsibility facing the country today...
...answer for students should not be to toss around unfounded charges of "insensitivity" when the deeper plight--the ineffectiveness of the way the College deals with difference--remains unaddressed...