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...voted yes on the Sensenbrenner bill, said two days after the Senate committee's action. "We're not going to discount anything right now. Our first priority is to protect the border. And we also know there is a need in some sections of the economy for a guest-worker program." House majority leader John Boehner has begun talking dismissively about the feasibility of the 700-mile fence that the House voted to build along the border...
...country has welcomed so-called guest workers into the U.S. since World War I, during which tens of thousands of Mexican workers were allowed in temporarily to help on the nation's farms. The idea is that when harvest time is over, they return home...
Except that often they don't, which is why the House rejected President Bush's proposed guest-worker plan when it passed its immigration bill in December. But House leadership strategists say privately they believe this time, with a strong lobbying effort by business and some additional pressure by Bush, they may find the votes they need to support a guest-worker program in a conference bill. The Senate Judiciary bill would allow at least 87,000 guest workers a year to apply for permanent residency, a step toward citizenship--which may be more than House Republicans can swallow...
...modified version of the Kennedy-McCain bill, Kennedy's and Feinstein's staffs worked out a path to citizenship for illegal agricultural workers, a deal that would pave the way for unlawful immigrants working other jobs. Where Bush will come down is unknown. The President has supported a guest-worker plan but has not fully embraced the idea of making illegal immigrants citizens. "We're not exactly there together, but we've spoken about it," Kennedy says. Will negotiations be made tougher because their last major collaboration--No Child Left Behind--has proved a major disappointment to Kennedy? For this...
...bill provides for a guest-worker program but requires illegal immigrants to leave the U.S. before they apply for it. They must leave within five years; delaying departure cuts into their future U.S. stay. Those and any new immigrant laborers can apply for a two-year visa that can be renewed twice, with a one-year gap between renewals that must be spent outside the U.S. and a lifetime cap of six years. The visa offers no special path to permanent residency or citizenship. The bill doubles existing civil penalties for employers who hire illegal immigrants and authorizes the addition...