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    Cornyn decries immigration rules, supports guest workers

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    Cornyn decries immigration rules, supports guest workers

    SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) Sen. John Cornyn said Thursday that the nation's immigration policy is "a mess" and expressed support for a guest worker program with no amnesty.

    Speaking to the San Angelo Chamber of Commerce, the Texas Republican said the Senate is likely to take up the immigration debate again in the next few weeks. He said lawmakers are sympathetic to immigrants seeking a better life in the United States.

    "We are also a nation of laws," Cornyn said in Friday editions of the San Angelo Standard-Times. "We can't lay claim to that heritage with rampant lawlessness."

    Chamber members discussed many of the hallmarks of the national immigration debate, including border security, drug trafficking and economic reliance on immigrant labor.

    A pending measure in the Senate would strengthen border security, create a guest worker program and offer eventual citizenship to many of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the country. But the future of the bill is uncertain.

    Chamber board chairman Lorenzo Lasater said San Angelo's agriculture industry employs fewer illegal workers than it did in the past.

    "Traditionally, there was a lot in agriculture," Lasater said. "That has evaporated, for better or worse, and most of the jobs they are taking now are more urban jobs, which we don't have here."

    Cornyn said the nation can no longer assume people are crossing into the United States for benign reasons.

    He has proposed increasing the number of Border Patrol officers on the border with Mexico from 15,000 to 25,000. He also advocates ground sensors and military-style unmanned aircraft to monitor sparse border areas. He wants to increase funding and training for local law officers along the border, better identification of immigrants who work legally and tougher sanctions against hiring illegal immigrants.

    Some at Thursday's meeting said they were concerned that stronger border security could hurt the nation's economy, particularly industries that rely on immigration labor.

    "These immigrants that come here, their dream is to cross the border, get their citizenship and actually live here," said David Thompson, a 22year-old construction worker from San Angelo

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    Sorry John. As long as "guest worker" remains a common term used in the current immigration debate, Americans ain't buying.

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