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WASHINGTON From building a fence to keep them out to passing a law to help them stay, members of Congress have lots of ideas on how to respond to President Bush's challenge to take on the problem of illegal immigrants. There's a will to act but so far not much consensus.
The first stab at the problem could come in the next two weeks, when the House may vote on legislation to strengthen border security. That's the easiest of the three legs of immigration reform. The others, enforcing workplace hiring rules and setting up a guest-worker program that might incorporate illegal immigrants, are far more divisive.See the full content of this document
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Illegal Immigration Weighs On Congress
In the Senate, Majority Leader Bill Frist plans to bring up a border security bill in February, and use that as a starting point for b...
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