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   Vol. 70/No. 36           September 25, 2006  
 
 
Republicans take ‘guest worker’ bill
off table and push for tighter border
 
BY SAM MANUEL  
WASHINGTON—Republican leaders in Congress have announced they are taking off the table until after the November mid-term elections—that is, until some time next year—discussion on the main “immigration reform” proposals, variants of which have been passed by the House and Senate. “House Republicans say that a Senate measure backed by Bush to create a guest-worker program is unacceptable to their party’s core constituency,” said a September 6 news dispatch by Bloomberg News.

The Republican leader in the Senate, William Frist, described the chances of getting any significant legislation passed over the coming weeks as “next to impossible.”

Dennis Hastert, speaker of the House of Representatives, said the priority for Republicans in the House would be putting together a package of enforcement proposals to tighten policing the border. “Our border is a sieve. We are at war,” said Hastert. “We need to close our borders. The Congress cannot wait until next year to take on this issue.”

Hastert and House majority leader John Boehner said the package could include more money for the Border Patrol and additional fencing and surveillance along the border with Mexico, reported Cox News Service.
 
 
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