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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, OCTOBER
25, 1985
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identifies with one's national group than with others. Else
there would be no nations."•••
During the past thirty-five years successive governments have
worked .f.I..Qm � premise that the United States has A moral
duty to mirror � ethn ic conformation .Qi � w orld's
population, and to provide an economic haven for the
destitute and the oppressed of the Third World.
Only
recently have the scope and the magnitude of the problems
resulting from unrestricted and undifferentiated immigration
begun to be realized.
Former proponents of open, non
European, immigration are now cautious or even pessimistic
about the future of the "new" America.
In his recently
published America in Search of Itself, Theodore White lauded
Lyndon Johnson's
1965
Immigration Act as "noble" and
"revolutionary,"
designed
to
"wipe
out
statutory
discrimination." Yet, he considered that the legislation was
"probably the most thoughtless of the many acts of the Great
Society." And, in a reflective mood, White soberly admitted
that the Kennedy-Johnson laws may well have been implements
of national destruction: "What could become a catastrophe-
the tide of immigration, legal and illegal, pouring into this
country."•••
As much as
83.3
percent of the legal, and
All
of the illegal
newcomers � of non-European origin--a fact which could
retard their assimilation and heighten ethnic tensions••••
[Ben J.1 Wattenberg•••observes that "we are well on our way
to becoming the first truly universalist nation."•••
[Wattenberg lists] the astonishing increases in legal Third
world immigration since the enactment of the Johnson law
(Philippines,
1,542
[percent]; India,
7,050
[percent]; Korea,
3,833
[percent]; Vietnam,
4,300
[percent]; Cuba,
281
[percent]; Ecuador,
340
[percent]; Haiti,
1,150
[percent];
Mexico,
94
[percent]; and China and Hong Kong,
689
[percent1 } ••• •
I recently read--but cannot locate at the moment--a statistic to the
effect that by approximately
100
years from now, people of European
origin would be in the minority (about
48
percent> in the United
States. When I find the stat, I will reproduce it. Meanwhile, one
contemplates the prophecy in Lamentations
5:1-2:
"Remember, O Lord,
what has come upon us; look and behold our reproach! Our inheritance
has been turned over to aliens, and our houses to foreigners."
Meanwhile, in the Ghetto•••
It is no secret that many of the Asian immigrants to the United States
have made the most of the opportunities afforded them in America. Hard
work, thrift and sacrifice by the family for the next generation all
are paying off. In the ghettos of America's inner cities, however, the
story is grimly different, as recounted in the remarkable account in
the September
16
issue of TIME entitled "When Brother Kills Brother":
The leading cause of death among black males ages
15
to
24
in
the U.S. is not heart disease, not cancer, not any natural