Article: THE BEAR'S LAIR: LEAVE YOUR POOR, YOUR HUDDLED MASSES AT HOME


United Press International
12-11-2000
The Bear's lair: Leave your poor, your huddled masses at home

WASHINGTON, Dec 11 (UPI) - "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses"
wrote Emma Lazarus in dedication of the Statue of Liberty. It is a beautiful
sentiment, noble if you subscribe to the altruist Judeo-Christian ethic. But its
economic side-effects should not be ignored.

During the 1990's, legal and illegal immigration ran at a level of about 1.25
million persons per annum, of which 800,000 were legal immigrants, 275,000
illegal immigrants and 175,000 refugees and asylum seekers. Thus total legal and
illegal immigration in the 1990's was about 12.5 million, or 5.2 percent of
1990's ...

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