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Bush set August as a goal for getting something done--a nod perhaps to the political calendar and to the fact that in Washington, at least, his own guest-worker visa will expire soon...
...furniture maker in rural São Paulo, managers found that even employees with a high school education could not interpret graphs or follow the manuals they needed to manufacture furniture. The company set aside a room on its shop floor to use as an impromptu classroom whenever a worker on a shift needs help. "It is common to see people who can't read or write or fill in forms," says Zanzini's human-resources director, Leandro Mangili. "They have finished secondary school, but they can't add without a calculator." The most recent study by the Organization for Economic...
...President's "comprehensive" reform includes more than border security, and that's where conservative skepticism comes in. His proposals, unveiled to Democrats for the first time two weeks ago, aim to create not just tougher border security and tighter domestic enforcement at work sites, but also a new guest worker program and a solution for the 11-12 million illegal immigrants in the country. Though these goals are associated with a softer line on immigration, under his new plan, Bush has played to the hard-line consensus among Republicans on these issues...
...Although the plan does create a guest worker program, Democrats and Republicans familiar with it say it would not offer new guest workers a faster track to citizenship than it would to any other foreigner trying to become an American. And while the plan does offer a path to citizenship for the millions of illegal immigrants already in the country, it sets high hurdles: They would be sent to the end of the line of those applying for citizenship, would have to pay heavy fines for the years they have been in the country, would have to show that they...
...Even as Bush struts and frets on the G.O.P. stage, Senator Edward Kennedy is doing the same for his audience, the pro-immigration left, which is calling for full amnesty for the illegal immigrants, a liberal guest worker program and broad new thresholds for immigration in coming years. Kennedy's staff says Bush will have to make concessions before Kennedy will sign up for the President's plan, and they insist the Massachusetts Senator won't back down on such core principles as reunification for immediate family members...