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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, JANUARY 31, 1986
is acceptance and full integration of massive immiqrat-
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Fears of
racial discrimination and charges of lack of compassion
prevent much public discussion, while, beneath the surface,
the situation is ripe for explosion••••
The critical dimensions are how to control immigration
numbers to make full integration feasible, insure strong
English language skills, and achieve successful completion of
minimum educational programs and standards among all
inunigrants. No one yet knows how to resolve these matters,
but the nation must realize that� time bomb is ticking••••
My concern is w�the magnitude of the problem•••• We're on
a collision course.
In the Fall 1985 issue of THE JOURNAL OF SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC
STUDIES, article "The U.S. Immigration Crisis," G. Palmer Stacy III and
Wayne Lutton reported:
Life in the poor nations of the world will grow ever more
miserable as this century comes to a close. Overcrowding,
shortages of food and water, lack of jobs, political turmoil
and other problems resulting from overpopulation will lead
hundreds of millions to consider migration to the relatively
more prosperous countries. Since the successful nations of
Asia, such as Japan, Taiwan and Singapore, rigidly restrict
immigration, this means that Western Europe, the United
States and Canada will be the target.
A Kettering Foundation poll taken in the early 1970s found
that one third of the people in Latin America wanted to leave
their native lands and that 90 percent of those who wanted to
migrate wished to come to the United States••••
Can the United States solve the world overpopulation problem
by taking in much of the excess population of the Third
World? Some say we should try. But the population of the
Third World will grow by at least two billion over the next
25 years••••
Defenders of liberal immigration policies often claim that
aliens rarely use social services and actually contribute
more in taxes than they receive in benefits. However, recent
evidence indicates that illegal aliens are making heavy and
increasing use of tax supported services, often at higher
rates than citizens•••• For example:
Nearly 80% of the infants born at the hospital nursery of the
Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical
Center are born to mothers who are illegal aliens.
Los Angeles County's Health Services Department, with six
public hospitals serving seven million residents, estimates
that the annual cost of caring for the country's large
population of illegal aliens is at least $150 million. The
department reported in 1983 that illegal aliens represented
22.9% of the total patients and accounted for 64% of the
births at county hospitals••••