Word: serfdom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only industry is peanut farming, Leary is a community of "men who hunt on land that their grandfathers had hunted on--it's kind of Faulknerian." The backwoods town is a "very racist kind of society," where Blacks until 15 years ago "were kept in a kind of serfdom by a family that kind of ruled them...
...proposals have already come under harsh attack. Tony Bonilla, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, has denounced the amnesty plan as "tantamount to establishing serfdom." Some conservative Republicans oppose employer sanctions as yet another form of Government regulation. The Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund says the sanctions will lead to job discrimination against Hispanics. Other critics argue that without a certain method of identifying illegal aliens, sanctions will be impossible to enforce. Nonetheless, there is little support for a national I.D. card. Acknowledges Republican Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming, who supports some kind...