Congress moves on immigration agenda
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As Congress heads for the exits to campaign, Republicans are maneuvering to pass a pre-election immigration agenda that falls short of their get-tough rhetoric but is enough, they hope, to satisfy voters upset about illegal immigrants.
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Conservative Republican senators and a handful of Democrats are trying to put a final knife in President Bush's plan for legalizing millions of unlawful immigrants.
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The US Senate on Monday set its sights on passing a bill granting legal status to 12 million illegal immigrants, despite claims by opponents that the move is tantamount to a mass amnesty.
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House Republicans have whipped through a series of bills to crack down on illegal immigration with hopes they might provide an election boost in November.
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Congress took up legislation to require voters to show proof of citizenship and to build a 700 mile fence along the Mexican border as Republicans sharpened their attacks on illegal immigration seven weeks before the midterm elections.
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The Senate heads for a make-or-break vote on Thursday on President George W. Bush's plan to overhaul immigration laws after Senate leaders battled to fend off efforts by opponents to derail the bill.
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The immigration proposal before Congress continued to prompt objections from each side of the aisle.
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WASHINGTON -- House Republican leaders, unveiling their proposal to revamp the government&#39;s intelligence operations, placed much more emphasis Friday on beefing up border control and law-enforcement powers than has the Senate.
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Going into a critical pre-election stretch, Congressional Republican leaders will concentrate on national security issues instead of immigration.
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As Congress reconvenes this week, businesses and their lobbyists are gearing up to fight a series of proposed changes to immigration law that they say will complicate hiring.
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President Bush's plan to liberalize the nation's immigration laws to allow millions of undocumented workers the opportunity for legal status appears to be on a collision course with newly aroused sentiment among House Republicans pushing for a crackdown on illegal immigration.
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The Senate&#039;s effort to curb illegal immigration involves the hiring of 14,000 Border Patrol agents, more detention centers to hold illegal immigrants and 370 miles of fencing. But those get-tough provisions aren&#039;t generating much support from a key GOP lawmaker in the House &amp;#151; at least not when combined with a provision that would allow millions of illegal immigrants already in the country a chance to become U.S. citizens.
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The US Congress Tuesday takes up a divisive bill balancing border security and the documentation of 12 million illegal aliens, in a make-or-break debate that could scuttle immigration reform until after the 2008 presidential election.
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In an election-year battle over  immigration, congressional Republicans said on Tuesday they  plan to take the issue directly to voters with hearings across  the country on whether millions of illegal immigrants should  have a path to citizenship.
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Unable to agree on comprehensive   immigration legislation sought by President George W. Bush, the   U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bill   cracking down on illegal immigrants who commit crimes or are   gang members.
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Proponents of a broad immigration measure narrowly beat back potentially fatal challenges Thursday, including an effort to phase out the temporary worker program
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President Bush faces an early test  on immigration policy this week as Congress considers  legislation denounced by Latino groups as anti-Hispanic and  anti-immigrant.