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Article: EDITORIAL: Border standoff.(Editorial)
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- The Blade (Toledo, OH)
- Article date:
- May 18, 2006
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May 18--PRESIDENT Bush took a shot the other night at bridging the conflicting views on immigration by taking into account both the necessity to enforce the law and the tradition of an open-door America.
He did so as the Senate prepared to resume debate on the issue. The House passed a tough border-control bill in December, while a bipartisan group in the Senate, like the President, continues to favor a guest-worker program.
Mr. Bush's message from the Oval Office addressed particularly the problem of immigration from Mexico. Some 400,000 Mexicans per year come to the United States, legally and illegally. About half of the estimated 12 million illegal ...