The Battle Against Illegal Immigration

By: John F. McManus
March 3, 2008
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According to national polls, at least 80 percent of the American people now favor cutbacks in immigration quotas.... More than 90 percent support an all-out effort to curb the massive illegal immigration.

What you have just read seems as though it were written yesterday. But it wasn’t. It appeared as part of a comprehensive study about our nation’s immigration crisis published in the May 1982 issue of American Opinion, a predecessor of THE NEW AMERICAN. Written by the late Robert W. Lee, the article carried the title “Immigration: A Problem That Must Be Solved Very Soon.â€