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I suggest that any other democracy on Earth would insist on the impeachment of a Chief Executive following a policy in any way similar to that which this countrys President is using to get himself reelected. Mr. Carter began by unilaterally canceling our immigration law. Now he is reversing it. He insists that illegal immigrants be counted in the census. so that their interests might receive full representation in Congress and in the distribution of Federal funds. More Congressmen are to be apportioned to areas where large numbers of illegal immigrants have been allowed to remain in violation of the law. No longer is it enough to bypass what the law says about what constitutes the citizenry of this country. Now the interests of noncitizens must be represented in Congress. while the interests of legal residents of this country are to be diminished. The 6 months allotted to the ban on enforcement of our immigration law has passed. but the Carter administrations Attorney General. Benjamin Civiletti. has refused to lift it. The unilateral cancellation of our immigration law by the Chief Executive continues. As the Washington Post puts it. immigration investigators contend that. "a continuation of the moratorium would amount to a de facto amnesty for undocumented workers and that the ban is politically motivated." They are right on both counts. But the administration has not been satisfied to play the politics of division on only two fronts. It has not been enough to destroy the chances of children to enter the Englishspeaking mainstream of American life. nor is it enough to expand the dangerous growth of a sea of frustrated illegal aliens on one side and the consequent growth of unemployment. and the resentment that goes with it. among American workers on the other. The administration has issued. in perfect timing for the November election. a set of guidelines which make an employers insistence on the use of our national language in the workplace a form of racism. The Equal Employment Opportunnity Commission has issued these guidelines as its interpretation of title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. as amended. which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race. color. religion. sex. or national origin.