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    GOP lawmakers offer immigration alternative

    GOP lawmakers offer immigration alternative
    More border enforcement would precede guest-workers

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Two Republican U.S. lawmakers Tuesday offered a compromise immigration plan they said would ensure border security and allow some of the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants to work legally in the United States without granting amnesty.

    Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Indiana Rep. Mike Pence said they hoped their plan would jump start stalled negotiations between the Senate and House. The two chambers have passed vastly different immigration bills and it is increasingly unlikely the two sides will bridge differences ahead of the November congressional elections.

    "We believe that this Congress must come together and find a way forward, and we hope this idea can be that way forward," Pence said at a news conference with Hutchison.

    The plan calls for implementing border-security measures before a guest-worker program backed by President Bush is put into place. Once the borders are determined to be secure, a temporary-worker program and an employment-verification program would go into effect.

    The U.S. government would license private employment services to match workers with employers. They would operate out of Canada, Mexico and Central American countries that are part of trade pacts with the United States.

    Illegal immigrants from those countries seeking to legalize their status would have to travel home to get a two-year visa, which could be renewed for a total of 12 years. After that time, those seeking to continue in the United States could apply for a visa that would allow them to say for another five years before they could apply for permanent status.

    Pence said it was a plan that conservatives could embrace because it gave no amnesty to illegal immigrants. Many House Republicans oppose the bipartisan Senate bill, calling it an amnesty, because it combines border security and workplace enforcement measures with a program giving millions of illegal immigrants a chance to earn U.S. citizenship.

    The House passed a tough enforcement and border-security bill that would criminalize illegal presence in the United States. The idea of securing the borders first as part of a comprehensive package has been gaining some ground among lawmakers.

    Reaction to the Hutchison and Pence plan was muted. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee said he welcomed the proposal and that he would discuss it with the sponsors.

    Sen. Edward Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat who helped broker the Senate bill, said he disagreed with the plan but admired Pence's "willingness to break with some in his party who would rather just play politics with immigration."

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    The plan calls for implementing border-security measures before a guest-worker program backed by President Bush is put into place. Once the borders are determined to be secure, a temporary-worker program and an employment-verification program would go into effect.

    "I hereby declare the border to be secure. Amnesty for everyone!"
    It's like hell vomited and the Bush administration appeared.

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    I really like the sombrero. You should've painted on the Shrub in that dune buggy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CheyenneWoman
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    I really like the sombrero. You should've painted on the Shrub in that dune buggy.
    Thank you.

    You don't think it clashes with my glasses?

    I'm thinking of adding some of those little hanging balls to dress it up a little.
    It's like hell vomited and the Bush administration appeared.

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    Now hanging balls would just finish that outfit off!!

    Way off!!!!!1

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