European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Immigrants boost . Population by Craig Webb United press International he census Bureau s latest examination of populate growth in the United Stales confirms thai America is finding its newest citizens More often at the immigration office instead of the maternity Ward. An estimated 625.000 immigrants moved to the United slates in 1986, accounting for 28.14 percent of the population growth in the period the census Bureau said that i the highest rate since 1380 and 1981, when 125.quo cubans arrived in the United states by the Freedom flotilla exodus and the immigrant share of the population increase lopped 30 percent. The 1986 figure intrudes an estimated 200,000 illegal immigrants believed to enter he country each year As Well As an estimated 160,000 people who annually emigrate from the United states. Those adjustments Are prompting the census Bureau to revise upward its projections of How Many immigrants Wilt enter the country through the year 2000. Civilian immigration had been Prelec Ted to run tout 450,000 a year it s going id be interesting in the future to see what s going to happen with he new immigration Bill said1 Louisa Melber a census Bureau demographer who helped put together the Agency s most recent estimate of the us. Population. Wei be looking to see How Many immigrants Register because that also May Force us to change our 200,000 net undocumented immigration Assumption America has always been a and of immigrants but that truism has t always held since world War ii. Between 1945 and 1970, immigrants generally made up Only 11 percent to 16 percent of any Given year s population growth. That is changing now in part because native americans Are having fewer  Rale of net natural increase to population births minus deaths lip photo fell to a Rale of 6,6 per 1,000 by mid year 1986, a Sharp decline from the baby Boom Era rates such As 14.3 per 1,000 in 1950 and 15.6 per 1,000 in 1955. At the same Lima the net civilian immigration rate per 1,000 residents hit 2.8 during the 12-month period ending june 30,1986. Just 10 years before it was 1.6 Par 1,000. The rile in immigration is a chief reason Why the non while non Black category known As other races grew 45 percent Between april 1.1980, and july 1,1986. To total 7,5 million other races consists mainly of asians american indians alaskan natives and Pacific islanders. That group s increase compares with 4.9 percent growth in the while population and a 9.8 percent increase in the Black population during the same period. Net civilian immigration provided two thirds of hat increase the census Bureau said among those were an estimated 421.000 refugees from Southeast Asia according to the Federal office of refugee settlement. Wave of emigration from Ireland Bye Olton United press International Oung Irish people Are leaving their country in the highest numbers in 30 years. Every weekday they Wail in Long lines outside the United states embassy in Dublin with the nope of setting a visa. If they cannot get an immigrant visa and the majority cannot Many go As tourists and stretch out their Holiday sometimes permanently by working illegally. Everyone knows someone who has gone Over to the slates to work said a Dublin woman who had two sons working illegally in new Vork. They can Fine jobs which they can t find Here and the Money s  other go on to Western Europe or London which has a larger Irish population than Dublin. Irish can freely Migrate to other european nations because it is a member of the european economic Community. The outflow against the background of 20 percent unemployment is causing grave concern Over the loss of the nation s youth Many of them College educated. We seem to be losing our  lamented1 father John Gavin executive Secretary of the Irish Bishop s commission Lor emigrants set up during another wave of emigration in the 1950s to till postwar labor shortages in Britain whole communities have been decimated with just the very Young and the very old left. You have families being split up. The Saddest part is the people Don t have a Choice. People Are being forced to emigrate because they Page 18 the stars and stripes Don t have jobs and have Given up  Irish officials estimate 35,000 of Ireland s 3.5 million people emigrated last year another 100,000 Are believed to have left Over the past four years. But statistics vary. Gavin said 100,000 Irish Are now working regally in new York atone and another 30,000 in Boston a place an evening newspaper recently dubbed a City of  Gavin said a year after graduation from College 50 percent of the graduates now leave for other Coundrie j. The emigrants Are not Only the unskilled but our Best and our brightest he said. A full 70 percent of graduates in architecture have la and Here Are also a lot of computer and engineering specialists. It s so bad that some sports teams in villages have trouble Fielding full squads because so Many have  recently 250,000 applications were received in Washington Lor an offering in january of 10,000 special immigrant visas to applicants in 36 nations. The Rush was so intense that the postal system ran out of airmail postage. Mailboxes at the Dublin general Post office were stuffed to overflowing. Ireland sent by far the highest number of applications and 3.t 12 Irish Gal visas. But if you want to go you should t let technicalities such As work visas Stop you advised Mark 25, who spent a year end a Hall working in new York and planned to return there later in the Winter. Mark not his real name Lound the United states the land of dreams he had always imagined eventually earning $700 a week wages i could never earn sunday March 29,1987 Here maintaining Gas lines. He joined a Union and got a new York state Driver s License. Nobody checks anything that s what s the great thing about it Mark said. When you go through immigration at the Airport you just say you re going on a Holiday and then you slay. There s a whole network of Irish immigrants there. I met a few Irish and started wanting in a bar and from Shore i went from one Job to the next. I made up social Security numbers but even that in t necessary. You can buy  Conw Joan Smith at the , embassy in Dublin said last year 50,000 temporary or visitors visas were issued in Dublin an increase of 20 percent from two years before. We know that there Are some who Aren t coming Back but to the greatest degree possible we try to screen them out Smith said but those who want to break the Law stay on. We know there Are Many but we Don t have official  surging emigration became a major Issue in the recent Irish election and the Winner Charies Haughey pledged to travel to the United Stales to seek Legal status for the illegal Irish immigrants there. Ultimately Irish officials believe the Only Way to Stop the tide of emigration is to Cut the jobless Rale and improve the Economy. But Many Young Irish do not see any other alternative but to emigrate. Here in Dublin i earn 160 pounds $220 a week said Mark. But in new York i can earn $700. And there in t much that can happen if i m caught. All they can do is Send me Back so i la be Back where i started. What would you do