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From: rgatkinson@watmum.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: definitions of culture
Message-ID: <836@watmum.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Mar-87 14:18:04 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  2 14:18:04 1987
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Reply-To: rgatkinson@watmum.UUCP (Robert Atkinson)
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In article <396@cognos.UUCP> glee@cognos.UUCP (Godfrey Lee) writes:
>. An obvious difference between U.S. and Canada was demonstrated recently
>  by the border refugee problems between U.S. and Canada. If the U.S. has as
>  liberal and non-political refugee policy as Canada, these people would not
>  be flooding from U.S. into Canada!

Perhaps you have a point, by my understanding of the situation is somewhat
different.  I remember hearing that sometime in the last six months or so
that the US Immigration and Naturalization Service began requiring that 
new employees be able to PROVE their elligablility (sp?) to work in the US.
I do not remember the enforcement mechanism, but it was structured in such
a way as the employers were given strong incentive not to be caught employing
illegal aliens.  Does anyone else remember more details?

Now, what would you do if you were an illegal alien from two or more borders
south of here and your employer will no longer hire you for fear of the INS?
You obviously left the far south for a good reason, so you probably won't 
go back.  Why not try one more country north?  After all, if you claim
refugee status at the border then you get to stay in the country **at their 
expense** (read: on welfare) until an immigration hearing.  And these usually
take on the order of months or a few years.  What have you got to lose?
At best you get to stay.  At worst you get to live free for a while
before going back south again.

No, I think the word just got around.

	-bob atkinson