European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Ai Pago 18 columns. The stars and stripes wednesday july 30,1986 we re a notion of immigrants Brand Rooney considering All the talk about immigration not Many or us know much Aboul in. I Sot through High school without being certain of the difference Between immigration and the process of giving a person from one country official status As a citizen of another is called natural it s son of i funny thing to Call in. You think it might be called in thou of i bom Here in the United Stales know How Lucky we arc. I d Hale to be outside trying to get in. The requirements for naturalization Are so com plex and vague that there in t anyone who can 1dl you what All the Rule Are. I tried to find out last week and ended up with three fat volumes of very link of which i understood do you. By any Chance know where most people came from to get Here there Are some surprises. Here ire me of the numbers on immigration to the . From 1120through 1981. The Moil immigrants came from Germany 6,998,000, a relatively Small part of that number can be accounted for by jew who fled nazi Germany. Italian were second 5,110,000. There were 4,693,000 Irish immigrants and almost a Many num Lurn 1 Don t think of canadians As Immi Grants. Then were 4j 19,000 Imin Igran u from Austria. I we surprised to see that 3,395,000 people came from Russia. England accounted for 3,19s,000 immigrants but tha Doon l include two of my grandparents. They came from Scotland. The Only other country exceeding i million was swe Den. The big Surprise to me was France during those years there were Only 757,000 immigrants to the is. From France. I find that amazing when you think 7 million Cameroni Germany. There were 594,000 people who came from China but that statistic has to be qualified. While Many chinese came Here before we had strict immigration rules All chinese were barred from entering from 1882 until 1943 when we opened that Golden door again to them. In another few years these statistics will change. The pattern of immigration has changed drastically people an coming to the United slate from Europe today. Cheat numbers Are coming from Mexico and Cen trial America. The rap Lique of the statue of Liberty and Ellis Island is a thing of the pan of course. Anyone coming Here now Lic. The Laws for entry into our country Are not Only com plex no one agrees on exactly what they should be. Con Gress has a new bin pending but it s brought up a Majior argument. Some people Don t want to let anyone new in others want u let everyone in. Do you know the people who object most to the alien who Are sneaking in this year it s the aliens who sneaked in last year. Last year s aliens Are the ones who la lose their jobs because the new ones will work cheaper under worse conditions. Prejudice a always been a it of Fife in America. On group of immigrants has always found a reason to dislike the next fortunately i m an enlightened Penon. I Dent have the same prejudices my Mother Hail think highly of the Irish it s All those mexicans i worry . Drug hysteria it s nothing new by Russell Baker new York cily is having one of Iti periodic drug hysteria. These arc characterized by overuse of the word epidemic Newt pictures of people buying Nar comics on Street Comers to film of angry citizens declaring that dope dealers Are destroying their neighbourhoods and demands for police crackdowns. All this stems from the appearance of a new Low Cost form of cocaine known in Street jargon As crack which is said to be Selling furiously among youngsters who could t afford really heavy junk until this new Economy cocaine came on the Market. This May be True but the implicit suggestion that the drug scene in new York was t really terrible until crack came along is nonsense. The drug scene inner York wit so hair raising i i years ago that gov. Rockefeller persuaded the legislature to pass Laws that would make penalties for drug dealing to dreadful that Only the Molt vicious criminals would dare continue in the business. This was a famous Law in its Day and politically very useful to rockefeller1 plans for making conservatives think him Tough Law and order kind of Guy. Famous and politically useful yes but for years afterwards you still could t walk through Union Square or Bryant Park without being assailed by paddlers urging you totes i hair drugs i forget offhand what sparked that particular hysteria the one that Ted to the Rockefeller Laws which were supposed to lock up the Dopcus and throw away the keys. Was it the time everybody discovered school kids were shooting heroin it s news of children using drugs that usually sets off these Waves of Public excitement. American adults May regularly dope themselves witless with pills pow Ders and liquids but they balk at the suggestion that it s perfectly natural for the kiddies to do As they see the grownups do. Instead they look for vicious criminals for whom the crudest death would be too gentle. Politicians find the resulting Public fever useful As Rockefeller did to Long ago. Most recently say new York youngsters so innocent of the drug Market that they did t know Bow to buy crack were treated to a televised demonstration by sen. D Amato. Costumed in army surplus clothing trailed by photographers to record his move the senator showed How easy it was. He was accompanied in the film demonstration by Manhattan s Federal prosecutor Rudolph Giuliani wearing leather motorcyclist s gear. The senator s demonstration took place just a mayor two before a Federal pornography commission beat up on smut publishers for exposing american Young sters to lewd prose and photos. If the commission had held off a couple of Days i assume they still would t have added a few lines expressing their revulsion for senators who show Young sters How to buy dope since people who fight pornography tend to think of Ilas something having to do with sex instead of running for political office. Which was what d Amato was up to of course the year in which he is obliged to gel himself it elected to the Senate. Drug hysteria does t bring out the Best in the Media either. One of the local to news shows the other night played film of some men on a Busy Stree who were the reporter suggested engaged in a drug transaction. He said he could t be sure of course and neither could the police who witnessed this kind of Contact in fact he went on could any of us in his audience really swear that what he d showed us was really a drug sate i could to and obviously the reporter could t either so what was going on in this to news show nothing definable As news surely in any Case every new yorker knows that drugs Are sold openly All Over town. Walk across Washington Square after Sundown and the paddlers Ireal you like a tourist at the Bazaar. Always have. All right the drug scene is truly bad in new York. It always is. 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