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With images still fresh of protesters massed on France's streets and faces painted with non in opposition to the youth job bill, could it be possible that reform is afoot in labor, health care, housing and anticrime policy? Although readers look forward to positive change, their hopes are tempered by scepticism As a French student, I appreciated your article about France's reforming behind the scenes [May 1]. I have to say it gives me hope to see an American magazine offering such a nice vision of France. Your report revealed the extent to which the French are struggling...
There was something ironic about George W. Bush giving his Oval Office address on immigration reform just as the final hours ticked away for seniors to sign up for the new prescription drug benefit. When Bush pressed for the Medicare Part D benefit in 2004, he was able to muscle enough grudging conservatives to support the greatest expansion of Medicare since its enactment in 1965. Last night, Bush was ostensibly speaking to the nation but his real audience was Congressional conservatives who are wary in the extreme of the President's "temporary worker" proposal and who want border security strengthened...
...Immigration was topic No. 1 for the Bush White House in the days before 9/11 pushed it aside.) But Bush's newfound moderation maybe too late. The country is polarized and so is the Congress, and Bush's efforts to bring them back together around immigration reform, while noble, may not be enough...
Senate negotiators, eager to rejuvenate the immigration-reform proposal that stalled before their Easter break, agreed last week on a bill that would create guest-worker programs--Bush aides say the President will veto any reform that lacks such initiatives--and introduce steps to crack down on illegal hiring that could affect all Americans. The bill, to be debated this week, authorizes 1,000 new customs officials to focus on investigating forged documentation and toughens rules on what identification must be presented to potential employers. U.S. citizens would have to show a passport or a controversial new-format driver...
...soon to tell whether those measures will deter the hiring of illegals--penalties added during a 1986 reform are rarely enforced. But in this election year, that may not be what matters most. Tough talk from Congress or the President may be enough to send a key message: We're working...