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Posted on: June 20, 2018 at 16:04:33 CT
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The bureaucratic charge was led in 1976 by the commissioner of the U.S.
Immigration and Naturalization Service, Leonard F. Chapman, who published
an article in Reader’s Digest entitled “Illegal Aliens: Time to Call a
Halt!” warning Americans that a new “silent invasion” was threatening the
nation:
When I became commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service
ðINSÞ in 1973, we were out-manned, under-budgeted, and confronted
by a growing, silent invasion of illegal aliens. Despite our best efforts, the
problem—critical then—now threatens to become a national disaster. Last
year, an independent study commissioned by the INS estimated that there
are 8 million illegal aliens in the United States. At least 250,000 to 500,000 more
arrive each year. Together they are milking the U.S. taxpayer of $13 billion annually
by taking away jobs from legal residents and forcing them into unemployment;
by illegally acquiring welfare benefits and public services; by avoiding
taxes. ðChapman 1976, pp. 188–89Þ
Chapman went on to argue for the passage of restrictive immigration legislation
then pending in Congress, contending that it was “desperately
needed to help us bring the illegal alien threat under control” because “the
understaffed ½Immigration Service vitally needs some budget increases”
ðpp. 188–89Þ. The numbers Chapman cited were entirely made up, and no
“independent study” was ever released. The figures were, however, useful
in defining illegal migrants as both a realistic threat ð“taking away jobs and
milking the taxpayer”Þ and a symbolic threat ðmorally suspect welfare
deadbeats and tax cheatsÞ, following the classic logic of intergroup threat
theory elaborated by Stephan and colleagues ðStephan and Renfro 2002;
Stephan, Ybarra, and Morrison 2015Þ. Demographic estimates later put
the actual number of unauthorized immigrants present in 1976 at around
1.3 million rather than the 8 million Chapman claimed ðWarren and Passel
1987Þ, but the latter number was, of course, more impressive in trying to
goad Congress and the public into providing additional funding to his
agency.
Immigration and Naturalization Service, Leonard F. Chapman, who published
an article in Reader’s Digest entitled “Illegal Aliens: Time to Call a
Halt!” warning Americans that a new “silent invasion” was threatening the
nation:
When I became commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service
ðINSÞ in 1973, we were out-manned, under-budgeted, and confronted
by a growing, silent invasion of illegal aliens. Despite our best efforts, the
problem—critical then—now threatens to become a national disaster. Last
year, an independent study commissioned by the INS estimated that there
are 8 million illegal aliens in the United States. At least 250,000 to 500,000 more
arrive each year. Together they are milking the U.S. taxpayer of $13 billion annually
by taking away jobs from legal residents and forcing them into unemployment;
by illegally acquiring welfare benefits and public services; by avoiding
taxes. ðChapman 1976, pp. 188–89Þ
Chapman went on to argue for the passage of restrictive immigration legislation
then pending in Congress, contending that it was “desperately
needed to help us bring the illegal alien threat under control” because “the
understaffed ½Immigration Service vitally needs some budget increases”
ðpp. 188–89Þ. The numbers Chapman cited were entirely made up, and no
“independent study” was ever released. The figures were, however, useful
in defining illegal migrants as both a realistic threat ð“taking away jobs and
milking the taxpayer”Þ and a symbolic threat ðmorally suspect welfare
deadbeats and tax cheatsÞ, following the classic logic of intergroup threat
theory elaborated by Stephan and colleagues ðStephan and Renfro 2002;
Stephan, Ybarra, and Morrison 2015Þ. Demographic estimates later put
the actual number of unauthorized immigrants present in 1976 at around
1.3 million rather than the 8 million Chapman claimed ðWarren and Passel
1987Þ, but the latter number was, of course, more impressive in trying to
goad Congress and the public into providing additional funding to his
agency.
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