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Open Door or Open Floodgate?
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
By PJH Staff


Does the new immigration bill solve America’s problems with undocumented
workers or worsen them?

Jackson Hole, Wyo.-Wrapping one’s head around what is called the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 is a daunting task. Gleaned from newspapers, online news sites, web logs, television, radio or all the other ways the news is disseminated in this rapidly transforming media age, there stands a mountain of material to sift through.

To further complicate that yeomen’s job of keeping current with the most significant immigration bill in at least the past two decades, the bill is still being debated in the Senate, where an unfolding give-and-take tenuously keeps the highly controversial and complex bill afloat.

If, as has been reported in some national publications, Senate leadership calls for an end to discussion at the close of this week – which seems less likely each day – the bill, which was brought forward by a bipartisan effort and has the strong support of President Bush, could advance to the House of Representatives, where many congre
ssional watchers predict it will face an even more apprehensive bunch of lawmakers.

This is due largely to the idea that the bill could provide what many consider “amnestyâ€