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Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Senate rejects stripping guest-worker program from bill
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Senate Tuesday rejected an amendment to immigration legislation that would have eliminated a guest worker program aimed at granting a two-year residency to up to 400,000 people.
The 64-31 vote was the first of two on Democratic amendments that could dramatically alter the bipartisan bill announced last week. The second amendment, offered by Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-New Mexico, would cut the guest worker program in half. The bill is the result of a deal struck after nearly three months of bipartisan talks and endorsed by the White House last week. It would offer the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants now in the United States a path to citizenship, boost border controls and establish the guest-worker program. |
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