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Article: Avoiding the issue. (what the United States faces if immigration policies are not changed) (Demystifying Multiculturalism) (Cover Story) (Cover Story)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- February 21, 1994
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WHEN Linda Chavez remarked recently that America's fast-expanding immigrant population presents "great challenges" to this society, she was, if anything, understating the case. Adding to the already profound social disarray in this country, the continuing influx of well over a million legal and illegal immigrants per year, 90 per cent of them from Third World countries, is feeding a host of cultural ills that may well prove incurable: the loss of a common language, common literature, and common national identity; the dismantling of the common American citizenship in favor of group rights and quotas based on race; the decline of skill levels and the development of a ...