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Sunday, 11/27/05

Illegal labor splinters nation

President's call for guest-worker status draws varied support, while others urge tighter borders


With the nation's borders leaking and the illegal population count bursting at the seams, Americans of all political persuasions agree: U.S. immigration policy is not working.

"This is a system desperately in need of repair," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff recently told a Senate committee.

President Bush has proposed a plan to let foreign workers, in his words, "come and work on a temporary basis if an employer can't find an American to do the job." The president â€â€