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[PA Sen] Specter Draft on Immigrants Parts Ways With Bush
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Nov 12, 2005 11:26am |
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| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Saturday, November 12, 2005 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: November 12, 2005
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 - The Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is circulating a draft of a compromise immigration bill that does not include guest worker provisions favored by President Bush.
The draft from the lawmaker, Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, opens a new stage in an emotional debate that is expected to play a major role in elections in many states next year. It has already divided the Republican Party, pitting talk-radio populists hostile to illegal immigrants against businesses seeking willing workers and religious groups with humanitarian concerns.
In a letter to colleagues, Mr. Specter called his document "a discussion draft intended to move the debate forward in anticipation of the Senate taking up immigration reform early next year." He added, "I do not necessarily endorse every provision included."
But proponents of a more open immigration policy, such as Mr. Bush has proposed, said they were disappointed in Mr. Specter's starting point. The president has called for an expanded temporary worker program that would be open to illegal immigrants currently in the country, a group estimated at more than eight million. The administration initially proposed offering such temporary workers a path toward permanent legal status as well, but officials have recently dropped that provision. |
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