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...Morgan and his peers have taken small steps on the path to their loftier goal: a New Orleans, completely reborn...
...perfect as any bill the Democrats could hope for. It followed Ted Kennedy's plan to put most of the country's 12 million illegal immigrants (except for the estimated one million or so who have been in the U.S. for less than two years) on an eventual path to citizenship and open up a massive new legal immigration system for low-wage workers; at the same time, it would have removed many of the draconian penalties that were in a bill passed by the House last December...
...limits for security reasons. And conversations with several embassy staffers who aren?t comfortable venturing into areas controlled by private contractors and Iraqis betray an unease about the changes at the checkpoints. A low-level U.S. embassy official who finds himself confining his movements more and more to the path between his trailer and his office, says that as more real estate is handed over to the Iraqi government, he?s watching the IZ become "more amber than green...
...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 of 10,000 agents over five years to investigate businesses for violations of immigration law and 1,000 agents to look for fraud in visa applications. To improve policing...
...that could be renewed once. Their incentive to leave after six years would come in the form of tax-preferred savings accounts set up in their country of origin. Bush has stressed that because he does not believe illegal acts should be rewarded, the visas would provide no "automatic" path to permanent residency and citizenship. But, as he told Mexican President Vicente Fox last week, guest workers can "get in line," like all other applicants. Bush has promised that laws against hiring illegal aliens would be more stringently enforced. And bowing to the need to win over hard-liners...