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...fees ranging from $200 to $2,000. Employers have sometimes willingly falsified papers to make sure their source of cheap migrant workers remains available. While the extent of fraud is debatable, its existence is not. "We had applicants flying in from New York," says Mariela Melero, Houston district INS spokeswoman. Some supposed farm workers, when interviewed by INS, described picking chili peppers with ladders or stooping to harvest grapefruit...
...outnumbered by immigrants, fear that jobs are in jeopardy from cheap labor, just plain fear of anyone different. Stewart Kwoh, executive director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California, charges the initiatives are partly responsible for unleashing a backlash against foreign- language minorities. Colleen O'Connor, spokeswoman of the American Civil Liberties Union, says the initiatives shout, "You're here but we would like to make it difficult for you." Even conservatives like Arizona Senator John McCain oppose initiatives like the one just passed in his state. Says McCain: "Our nation and the English language have done...
...Marcoses were being indicted because they plotted with Khashoggi and others to fraudulently conceal their illicit activities after they became U.S. residents. "There was no asylum agreement that Marcos could be just as big a crook in this country as he was in ((the Philippines))," says Loye Miller, spokeswoman for Attorney General Richard Thornburgh. "If he had been a good boy after he got to the U.S., he would not have the problems he has today...
Shirley Temple is exactly the same age as Mickey Mouse. At 60 he is wealthier, but she has the more interesting tale. The little lodestar of Depression musicals grew up to become a grandmother, Republican spokeswoman, U.S. Ambassador and U.N. delegate. The journey is so convoluted it takes two volumes to chart: a biography, and a chronicle by the subject herself...
Waldenbooks, Lucky supermarkets and Walgreen drugstores banned the issue. The Southland Corp. kept it out of 4,200 7-Eleven stores because, a spokeswoman said, it was "beyond the bounds of good taste." Yet most 7- Eleven stores sell condoms all the time, displaying them right on the aisles...