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Alien America: even as we fight a war on terrorism abroad, the U.S.--thanks to the UN--is importing a potential terrorist "fifth column" at home. (Cover Story: Immigration).
Like many small towns across the United States, Lewiston, Maine (population 36,000) has struggled for several years to cope with the economic downturn. The mill and factory jobs that once sustained that small community are almost entirely gone. In 2001 the local job market shrank by 2.9 percent - a decline that accelerated as the economy absorbed Black Tuesday's impact.
Part of the fallout from Black Tuesday was the loss of 60,000 jobs in Atlanta, largely in the already besieged airline industry. In early 2002, Atlanta's economic woes prompted a sudden exodus of Somali refugees from Atlanta - where the federal government had resettled them - to Maine. By year's ...
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