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  • Workers caught daydreaming on immigration deal

    05/18/2007 8:13:25 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 46 replies · 954+ views
    Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 5/18/07 | Tim Gaynor
    PHOENIX (Reuters) - Day laborers stood in the shade of a palm tree hoping for work and dreaming of a life out of the shadows on Friday, a day after U.S. Senate leaders struck a deal on immigration reform that would allow millions of illegal immigrants a shot at becoming legal. The agreement would create a temporary worker program, set up a merit-based system for future immigrants and give legal status to some 12 million undocumented immigrants, if it survives what is expected to be a highly charged debate in Congress in coming weeks. It allowed the day laborers in...
  • New program amnesty in everything but name

    05/18/2007 9:02:38 PM PDT · by Politicalmom · 75 replies · 1,039+ views
    The Bakersfield Californian ^ | May 18, 2007 | Marylee Shrider
    At last. After months of closed-door negotiations and podium-pounding promises of sweeping immigration reform, the Senate and White House announced this week they had managed to set aside partisan politics to give the American people the plan they've been begging for. The result? A ludicrously unworkable scheme that rewards lawbreakers, shakes down taxpayers and ultimately will satisfy few. Except, of course, for 12 million or so illegal immigrants currently in the United States and those who employ them. They're going to love it. One might think so, though with the sense of entitlement we've come to know so well, illegal...