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...workforce are illegal immigrants and that industry needs 300,000 to 500,000 new workers a year in order to cover for retiring baby boomers. But with anti-immigration activists like Sensenbrenner getting the drop on business last year, it was not easy to turn the tide. Public sentiment seemed to be largely behind the Sensenbrenner agenda, so the lobbyists focused their efforts on quietly lining up Judiciary Committee Republicans and ensuring a bill would get a vote on the floor of the Senate. Allies in the religious community and among immigrant rights groups helped organize the massive rallies over...
...their midst. On a dank night in February 2004, anonymous calls to emergency services in Lancashire, England, gave the first hint of something that would expose the harsh life, and deaths, of a group of Chinese illegals. The calls warned that cockle pickers had been caught by the tide on England's northwestern seaboard, at Morecambe Bay. Last Friday, one caller, later identified as Lin Liang Ren, from Fuzhou city, China, was convicted of the manslaughter of 21 Chinese men and women. (Authorities believe another two died that night, but their bodies have never been found.) Lin, the "gangmaster...
...voters are at Washington in general, they are still pretty happy with the individual people who represent them. In the TIME poll, 63% of respondents said they approved of the job their local lawmaker was doing. That's one reason Republican strategists say they plan to battle the national tide by localizing individual races. Localizing suggests drawing voters' attention to the issues that most affect them at home. But in practice, to political operatives it means putting an opponent through the shredder. Republicans plan to go after Democratic challengers with every bit of ammunition they can find, from...
...next year's presidential elections. As teachers, parents, and labor unions have joined growing opposition to a government law designed to loosen labor markets and battle dizzying youth unemployment, presidential hopefuls among conservatives and the leftist opposition alike have been forced to scramble to survive the rising tide of unrest - or try riding it to their advantage...
...period. Senior defenseman Tom Walsh received the puck at the blue line and fired a seeing-eye shot that made it through traffic and past Saints goaltender Justin Pesony untouched, giving the Crimson a 1-0 lead. Despite ending the period with a 17-5 advantage in shots, the tide seemed to change for Harvard when sophomore forward Jon Pelle was whistled for roughing as the period ended. “I wasn’t particularly pleased with the penalty at the 20-minute mark,” said Crimson coach Ted Donato...