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To: taxed2death
How many you gonna take in your state?

Here's a slice of Wisconsins experience......
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April 1994

The Ordeal of Immigration in Wausau

Since 1970 the majority of population growth in the United States has come from immigrants and their descendants. Demographers predict that this trend will intensify in the new century if federal laws remain unchanged. For a look at a possible American future, consider the fate of a small midwestern city

by Roy Beck

It all began simply enough, when a few churches and individuals in Wausau, Wisconsin, decided to resettle some Southeast Asian refugees during the late 1970s. To most residents, it seemed like a nice thing to do. Nobody meant to plant the seeds for a social transformation. But this small and private charitable gesture inadvertently set into motion events that many residents today feel are spinning out of control. Wausau--the county seat of the nation's champion milk-producing county--has learned that once the influx starts, there's little chance to stop it. Regardless of how many newcomers failed to find jobs in this north-central Wisconsin city of 37,500, or how abraded the social fabric became, the immigrant population just kept growing.



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52 posted on 07/19/2004 5:15:52 PM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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To: Kozak

A ten-plus-year old commentary with a link to "The Atlantic" magazine?


81 posted on 07/19/2004 10:56:08 PM PDT by Chummy (RepublicanAttackSquad.biz: "A vote 4 Kerry is a vote for Osama")
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To: Kozak

I cannot honestly say right now how many, if any at all my state would / could absorb. Id take all 300,000 here if the powers that be would get some control over our borders and boot out illegals. At least we know who the Hmong are, unlike illegals.


90 posted on 07/20/2004 5:22:02 AM PDT by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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