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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, JANUARY 31, 1986
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Nearly 10 percent of the population of El Salvador !!.Q!! lives
in California•••• Los Angeles school board member, Larry
Gonzales, reported that "the impact of the Salvadoran
children on our public schools has been tremendous."•••
Aliens � becoming .§2. [politic-ally] powerful in
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parts
of the United States that they are successfully pressuring
loc�and state government agencies not to enforce laws
prohibiting the giving of welfare to illegal aliens, and are
further demanding that such agencies not cooperate with the
Federal government. This problem is especially acute in the
state of California, dubbed by TIME magazine as the U.S.' s
first "Third world" state••••
Another technique by which immigration laws are constantly
circumvented on a major scale is for the expectant alien
mother simply to plan to be in the U.S. for the birth of her
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The number of "citizen cliITdren" born to alien
visitors in the U.S. border towns now runs as high as 20,000
per year. Tens of thousands of additional "citizen children"
are born annually to alien mothers residing illegally in the
United States.
"Citizen children" have legal access to nearly all U.S.
welfare programs, such as food stamps and AFDC payments, as
well as special programs for minorities, despite the fact
that their parents are in this country illegally.
On
reaching the age of 21, the "citizen child" acquires the same
immigration benefits as a naturalized citizen, including the
right to bring in his parents, spouse and children from the
mother country, with !lQ wait .Q!. visa limits••••
Few other nations cons-ider the children of illegal aliens to
be citizens.
In the u.S., this concept grew out of the
Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868,
when the Reconstruction Congress was trying to protect newly
emancipated slaves, not immigrants••••
This alarming trend is given full-sized treatment in a new book
entitled THE IMMIGRATION TIME BOMB, co-authored by Governor Richard D.
Lamm and Gary Imhoff. Here are just a few observations made by the
authors:
Arnold Toynbee, after a lifetime of studying history,
observed that "the same elements that build up an institution
eventually lead to its downfall.
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This clearly applies to
the wrenching subject of immigration. Immigration policy was
once an asset to this country, helping to make us strong.
But its current uncontrolled state will seriously harm this
country and its institutions.
This is not easy for Americans to accept.
The Statue of·
Liberty is deeply embedded in the American psyche and
American institutions.
The immigration crisis has grown
steadily and slowly, and therefore taken us by surprise.
Today, immigration to the United States is massive, and it i.s
out of control. The United States accepts for permanent