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Immigration Reform: United States
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Comprehensive immigration reform was among the topics presented by President Bush in his sixth State of the Union address. Focusing on domestic issues and a new level of cooperation among the political parties, Bush reiterated the importance of his temporary worker program to establish a path for undocumented workers already in the U.S. to gain legal employment status. In addition, the program would ... create a new process for foreign workers to enter the country and work on a temporary basis. The President’s plan was well accepted in the Senate last year, however, opposed in the House by conservative Republicans. With the newly Democratic House, many expect immigration reform legislation to be passed by mid-summer.
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The issue of immigration reform is a hotly debated topic with so many facets to consider that they are not likely to be resolved anytime soon. One of the issues being debated is the impact on certain businesses if all undocumented workers were somehow eliminated from the work force. This is particularly true in Arizona where new requirements to electronically verify employment status were made effective January 1, 2008. Businesses in Arizona who fail to follow this new mandate will face the loss of their business license. If all undocumented workers were somehow eliminated many food and beverage outlet would be seriously impacted and face a shortage of workers. Construction laborers would be another group that would be another group that would be affected.
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The bills respond to President Bush’s vision for immigration reform sketched out in his speech of January 7, 2004. See Stanley Mailman and Stephen Yale-Loehr, Sanity for the Southwest Border, N.Y.L.J., Feb. 23, 2004, at 3, reprinted in 9 Bender’s Immigr. Bull. 152 (Mar. 1, 2004). The President envisions a temporary guest worker program – one that would give a temporary legal status to a foreign national willing to take a job that Americans don’t want.
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On his July 5, 2007 radio broadcast, commenting on students' fasting in protest of the lack of immigration reform, Savage said, "I would say, let them fast until they starve to death; then that solves the problem." The San Francisco Board of Supervisors had previously introduced a resolution that commended the student protest. Over a month after the broadcast, the Board of Supervisors introduced a resolution that "condemns the defamatory language used by radio personality Michael Savage against the immigrant community", claiming that Savage "urged the death of those students." The resolution contains a whereas clause noting a community-organized vigil to take place outside the offices of the KNEW radio station on August 15, calling for the "termination" of the The Savage Nation radio program.[41] Savage responded on his radio show and website:
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The current discussion around immigration reform comes at a time when the United States has more foreign-born residents that ever before. The nearly 36 million immigrants in the United States make up 12 percent of the U.S. population. Estimates show that roughly one-third of the immigrant population resides here with legal permanent residency, one-third are naturalized U.S. citizens, and one-third are estimated to be here without legal status.
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The debate over immigration reform is the hottest issues in the upcoming elections. When asked "what is the most important issue facing them," immigration came first followed by the economy, discrimination and health care. When asked "what are the biggest barriers to Latinos in the U.S.," learning English was first, followed by discrimination, immigration status and education.
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