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Social assimilation may lag behind political participation, since it is easier to vote than face possible backlash by moving into an Anglo neighborhood. Moreover, Hispanics can remain in ethnic enclaves even as they move up economically. The bigger communities in fact have begun to spawn middle-class suburbs. Sweetwater, Fla., in Dade County, is a city of solid ranch-style homes with red tiled roofs and, frequently, Buicks and Cadillacs * parked in the driveways; it is populated primarily by Hispanics...
Much of the concern comes from people who favor continued immigration, but who fear the consequences if a slowdown in the economy were to heighten the sense that immigrants, especially illegal ones, take jobs away from Americans. "We could have a terrible backlash, a terrible period of repression," warns the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame and chairman of the Select Commission on Immigration that was established by Congress in 1978. "People tend to forget that twice in our lifetime, this country has rounded up hundreds of thousands of Mexicans and pushed them back over the border.* That...
...entire immigration code, Simpson's legislation aims to stem the far greater tide of immigrants who come to the U.S. illegally. The Wyoming Senator and his supporters argue that failure to act decisively in the present entails a major risk in the future: resentment, xenophobia and an eventual backlash against all immigrants. Says Simpson: "Illegal immigration endangers a fair and generous policy of legal immigration." The concern is generally shared by those responsible for enforcing immigration laws. "Nothing is going to blow up right away," says Alan Nelson, commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. "But eventually a public...
...terrorist strikes raised the possibility of another sectarian bloodletting between Sikhs and Hindus, the largest of India's religious groups. An estimated 2,000 Sikhs were killed in massacres following Indira Gandhi's murder. As Sikhs in New Delhi and elsewhere huddled in their homes, fearful of another murderous backlash, security forces sealed highways into and out of the city and subjected plane, train and bus passengers to careful searches. Police swept through ten Sikh temples in New Delhi, hunting for suspects. Some 200 Sikhs were detained in New Delhi; 600 more were arrested in sweeps in Haryana and Punjab...
Even if authorities manage to stave off a backlash, the terrorist strikes were a severe setback for the youthful Prime Minister. Since he led his Congress (I) Party to an overwhelming victory in last December's parliamentary elections, Gandhi has made significant concessions in an attempt to bring Sikh political leaders to the negotiating table. He released Sikh leaders who had been held in detention since the army assault on the Golden Temple, ordered an independent inquiry into the massacres that followed his mother's death, and lifted a ban on the All-India Sikh Students' Federation, the most radical...