Consider. then. that just 4 years ago. applicants for asylum numbered less than 5.000 for the year. Today. that backlog is over 105.000. We are well informed that a significant fraction of those may actually be "economic migrants" and not. thus. legally qualified for asylum. Who would have ever dreamed we would have become a country of first asylum? The number of illegal aliens already in the country is unknown. The select commission used a figure of 3.5 to 6 million for the best estimate for 1978. Whatever the number presented 4 years ago. there are surely many more now. Immigrationlegal plus illegalnow appears to be accounting for 30 to 50 percent of our annual population growth of about 2 million. Well. Mr.
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