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全新版第二版综合B1U4-A?Some say that our ueconomy/u would crumble almost immediately if all the uillegal/u aliens, an estimated 20-million people left our nation tomorrow. One cannot udeny/u that at the current 5.5% uunemployment/u figure we need uadditional/u labor for our economy and our standard of living to continue. However, we must also upoint out/u: that does not mean we should not find a way to control our uborders/u. We need some way to ukeep track of/u all those entering our nation. Not only due to the crime — 33% illegal aliens fill our prisons. But also because we need to guard against diseases, which we uwere supposed to/u have eradicated. Small Pox, Polio, etc.And what about Hepatitis C and TB, STDs and the pending Bird Flu? You see we do not live with our chickens here like others in the world that do. We do not need those issues here either. For those who have studied the illegal immigration issue since the Jordan Commission Era, they know that this is a serious issue and one we must uaddress/u and not one we can go any longer without doing something about it. We need the problem fixed and if we do not, we will surely pay the price in the future.??Recently the Department of Planning of New York issued a report which laid bare a full scale of the city. In 1970, 18% of the citys population was foreign-born. By 1995, the figure had risen to 33%, and another 20% were the US-born offsprings of immigrants. So immigrants and their children now form a majority of the citys population. Who are these New Yorkers? Why do they come here? Where are they from? (OK, time to drop the they. Im one of them.) The last question at least is easy to answer: we come from everywhere. In the list of the top 20 source nations of those sending immigrants to New York between 1990 and 1994 are six countries in Asia, five in the Caribbean, four in Latin America, three in Europe, plus Israel and former Soviet Union. And when we immigrants get here we roll up our sleeves. If youre not read