Word: quota
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Actually, Congress posted very picky bouncers at the Golden Door in 1921, when it began the quota system. But official strictures on immigration have become a kind of charade. The flow of illegal immigrants persists, merely inconvenienced by the understaffed Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Border Patrol. And the U.S. has often made massive exceptions to the law in order to admit refugees-36,000 from Hungary after the 1956 uprising, for example, and 872,000 from Cuba since the Castro revolution. Future upheavals will undoubtedly produce massive new exceptions. A new law, the Refugee Act of 1980, attempts...
...from one side of the issue to the other, is now trying to strike a workable, intelligent balance that will honor both the practical dilemma (the Cubans are here in the U.S., and it would be barbaric to try to ship them back) and the necessary precedents and principles (quota systems must be honored, American jobs must be protected, and the country cannot possibly take everyone who wants to come...
...Both sides should remember, if they can, the Persian prov erb: "Blood cannot be washed away with blood." Revenge has its undeniable satisfactions. It is a primal scream that shatters glass. But revenge is not an intelligent basis for a foreign policy. This century has already fulfilled its quota of smoke and rage and survivors, gray with bomb dust, staggering around in the rub ble, seeking what is left of the dead they loved...
...part of the academic radicals or heretics in America, it's sort of dumb. What will become of us leftists when the majorities are entitled to judge us on the basis of our political activities and when, at best, well defined and well policed political sects are assigned a quota in the academy? And what will happen to use outcasts and dreamers (not the same category as leftists) when the bungling and half-hearted hazing to which we are subject is replaced by a licensed and shameless oppression...
...Arnold C. Harberger, chairman of the economics department at the University of Chicago, turned down President Bok's offer to direct the Harvard Institute of International Development (HIID) in a letter to Dean Rosovsky this week, he briefly noted the reason: Harvard could not guarantee him as large a quota of Latin American graduate students as Chicago has provided in the past...