Stalled Immigration Reform 'High Priority' for Bush
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Revamping U.S. immigration laws to  let more Mexicans work legally in the United States is a high  priority, Secretary of State Colin Powell said, although a  skeptical Congress could still block the plan.
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In the Central American leg of his tour, President Bush is likely to face questions about a crackdown on immigrants.
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President Bush faces a daunting array of challenges -- complicated by Asia's tsunami disaster -- that will be pivotal in determining how much momentum he can generate for the intensely ambitious agenda of his second term.
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President Bush said Thursday that he has asked his transportation secretary to make sure that travelers delayed at airports are treated fairly
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President Bush, in an Oval Office meeting Tuesday with Salvadoran President Tony Saca, pushed for immigration reform and nudged Congress to pass a guest worker program that would allow immigrants to seek temporary work visas.
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If there is one thing President Bush has been clear about regarding the immigration bill before the Senate, it is that the measure does not amount to amnesty. More than most people, Bush knows that "amnesty" has become a radioactive term.
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President Bush is not giving up on his plan to legalize millions of unlawful immigrants and will seek to convince skeptical GOP senators that it secures the nation's borders, administration officials said Sunday.
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The Senate's Republican leader says he is unsure whether he will vote for the immigration bill President Bush strongly supports, underscoring the measure's precarious status.
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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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A White House-backed bill revamping U.S. immigration laws stalled in the U.S. Senate on Thursday, handing President George W. Bush a major legislative setback.
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President Bush is putting his influence within his own party to the test Tuesday as he pleads personally with skeptical Senate Republicans to resurrect his immigration bill. Despite his confident tone Monday about the measure's fate, Bush is facing a hostile audience that has shown little appetite for following his lead on the contentious issue.
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Republicans who want to slow  immigration to the United States and crack down on illegal  immigrants believe they are gaining political strength and  public backing, which may pose a problem next year for  President Bush.
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Federal officials say they are closing in on President Bush's goal of processing immigration applications faster, but that is largely because they no longer count many stalled applications as part of the backlog.
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There is increasing pressure on the Bush administration to show that the rebuilding effort is making progress.
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A sharply divided Senate on Thursday threw into doubt the fate of the plan backed by President George W. Bush to revamp U.S. immigration laws.
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President Bush pledged on Sunday to  Mexican President Vicente Fox to pursue immigration reforms in  the new year at a Pacific Rim summit enlivened by a security  scuffle involving the U.S. leader.
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Mexico is holding out hope that Latin America will get more attention during President Bush's second term and obtain changes in what a senior Cabinet minister calls "absurd" U.S. immigration policies.