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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, JUNE 1, 1984
To be sure, not all black elected officials, civil-rights
leaders, writers, and academics shared the predominant posture.
Norman Hill, president of the A. Philip Randolph Institute,
pointed out that "the black population of the island has welcomed
the American and Caribbean troops as liberators•••• [ Neverthe
less] many black foreign-policy specialists and activists display
a decided preference for revolutionary, "socialist," and anti
Western regimes in the Third World. For them, a Maurice Bishop
is preferable to a Eugenia Charles; in all likelihood a Fidel
Castro is preferable to an Edward Seaga. (At least one prominent
black political figure, Boston's Mel King, has stated a prefer
ence for Castro over Ronald Reagan because, in his view, Castro
cares more about poor people.) ...
Given the� certainty that blacks will become an increasingly
influential force in American political life, this attitude rep
resents a serious obstacle to the refashioning of a national con
sensus around a policy aimed at the spread of democracy and the
restraint of Soviet expansionism.
America's "Open Border" Sows Seeds of Future Disaster
The possible radicalization of the black community is proceeding apace with
the steady influx of Hispanic illegal aliens, especially in America• s
Southwest. One of America's most perceptive columnists, Georgie Anne Geyer
of the UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE, puts this mushrooming problem into per
spective, in a syndicated column on May 8:
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS•••• Everybody talks about it, usually quietly
or in whispers. People "know" that the balance in this unusually
lovely American city--until now a harmonious mixture of Old
South, Old Texas and Old Mexico, with its charming riverfront-
has changed. They "know" that the city population has now passed
over to about 54 percent Mexican-Americans and Hispanic illegal
aliens in place of the harmonious old Anglo-Mexican mixture. But
no one takes polls, no one confronts it, no one deals with it.
It's easier that way--or it still seems to be.
People suspect that something is different underneath•..• They
know that an even greater deluge of illegal immigrants is coming.
They know there is heavy communist political organizing in Las
Piedras on the border. They know that northern Mexico is in
anarchisr-chaos and that the American border is� shameless open
sieve, laughed at .£Y the world. But no one wants to come to grips
with it.
Then you put on top of this the demagoguery of the Democrats cam
paigning down here these past few days. Gary Hart, who should
know better, gave a rabble-rousing speech in Harlingen, saying
"I•..do not intend, as president, to support immigration legisla
tion that discriminates against Mexican-Americans. There will be
no Simpson-Mazzoli Bill or anything like it until we have abso
lute protection and guarantees for the Mexican-American commu
nity." His answer to the incredible problem? "The real solution
for the immigration problem will not occur until the Mexican
economy turns back up."•••