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Monday, April 4, 1994
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Clinton becomes casualty of immigration policy war
By John King The Associated Press
MIAMI — As an emotional debate over immigration spills into the policy and political arena, consider this snapshot from Florida. In the span of a few days, President Clinton was sued by one friend and labeled a racist by another.
In Florida, California, Texas, a handful of other states and in Washington, illegal immigrants are frequent targets in the debate over health care, welfare reform, prison costs and education spending.
The debate was perhaps inevitable, given state and federal budget constraints, and the skyrocketing cost of aid to illegal immigrants. "Because of these costs we are unable to provide some of these same needed services to our legal residents," complains California Gov. Pete Wilson.
These points have been argued quietly for years, but state officials like Wilson and Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles have been increasingly vocal about their opinions — despite the racial overtones.
Chiles chose his words carefully as he announced his lawsuit against Clinton and the federal government this month. No one can blame illegal
immigrants for seeking the American dream, Chiless said, but by not policing the borders and forcing states to foot the bills, "federal immigration policy has made a nightmare."
Clinton has taken modest steps to answer complaints from the border states. Calling the Border Patrol "breathtakingly understaffed," Clinton offered $172 million in increased spending for more agents and equipment to police the border.
His effort won bipartisan applause, but it looks rather timid compared with a blizzard of immigration proposals put forth in recent months.
Wilson backs a constitutional amendment to deny citizenship to children of illegal aliens. Some conservatives in Congress want to prevent federal education money from being spent on illegal immigrants.
Republican Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming, a leading voice on immigration policy, has proposed the death penalty for anyone running a smuggling operation that results in the death of an immigrant. And he proposes cutting from 675,000 to 500,000 the number of legal immigrants allowed into the United States annually.
erage under any national health care reform measure, and is considering cuts in the welfare benefits to illegal immigrants. Not to mention trying to come to grips with Haiti.
In the short term, Clinton has proposed denying illegal immigrants cov-
During his recent visit to Miami, Clinton was picketed by Haitians upset at his flip-flop on the issue of forcibly repatriating Haitian refugees caught at sea, and the failed efforts to restore ousted President Jean Bertrand Aristide to power.
It was Aristide who labeled Clinton's Haiti policy racist during remarks to a Congressional Black Caucus forum. Since then, the administration has promised to put more pressure on Haiti's dictators, but has given no indication it will allow Haitian refugees to come ashore.
Since Aristide was ousted in 1991, the Coast Guard has forcibly returned roughly 43,000 Haitians intercepted at sea, infuriating Haitians who say those returned are subjected to persecution — and who watch Cuban refugees welcomed with open arms.
"Cubans come, and they are released; Haitians come, and they are detained," said Steven Forester, an attorney for Miami's Haitian Refugee Center. "Why? Because they are Black."
Nuclear work could provoke war
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The United States is willing to risk provoking war to stop North Korea's program to develop nuclear weapons, but "we're not on the brink of crisis," Defense Secretary William Perry said yesterday.
"We do not want and will not provoke a war over this or any other issue in Korea," Perry said yesterday on NBC's "Meet the Press." "But we will take a very firm stand and strong actions. It conceivable
where those actions might provoke the north Koreans into unleashing a war, and that is a risk that we're taking."
Perry said the CIA believes that North Korea already has as many as two nuclear bombs and is continuing to develop atomic weapons.
The United States and the United Nations have been pressing North Korea to allow international inspectors to examine its nuclear sites. North Korea has given no public indication that it is willing to do so.
In the meantime, the United States and South Korea have postponed deciding on whether to resume joint military exercises — although Perry said both sides were discussing a schedule yesterday.
But he was careful to say that he thinks war is unlikely.
The United States' primary concern is to stop any further nuclear development in North Korea but not necessarily to try to take away any nuclear weapons they now have, Perry said.
"This is not an imminent crisis," he said.
KC schools search for minority teachers
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY. Mo. — School districts on both sides of the state line in the Kansas City area are scouring colleges and other school districts for minority teachers to recruit.
The percentage of racially and ethnically diverse Americans over age 18 stands at 26 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. But in the population age 5 and younger, 38 percent are racial minorities.
The number of minority teachers, however, stands at not much more than 9 percent in most area districts.
At the University of Kansas and the University of Missouri, few education majors count themselves as Asian, Latino, African-American or American Indian.
The number of minority education majors is woefully low, said Jerry Bailey, associate dean of the School of Education at Kansas.
Most minority education majors grow up in diverse urban areas and sometimes they don't adapt to a town the size of Columbia, said Sharon Huntze, associate dean for undergraduate studies at Missouri's school of education. Feelings of isolation
have caused several education majors to transfer, Huntze said. Missouri is seeking ways to retain minorities in its teacher-education program.
For students of diverse backgrounds, an instructor with the same roots can make all the difference.
Fewer Hispanic students in Texas and California were placed in remedial classes when they were taught by Hispanic instructors, according to a study by the Tomas Rivera Center, a public-policy institute. Under those circumstances, Hispanic dropout rates also fell.
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