News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Saturday, May 20, 2006

Immigration bill's key elements survive

WIRE REPORTS

WASHINGTON — In one of the little-noticed changes to the Senate's immigration reform bill this week, illegal immigrants who apply for legal status would have to pay $750 surcharges, on top of larger fines, to reimburse state and local government for social services.

The surcharge for health care and education was proposed by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas.

But as senators modified the bill, whose framework is supported by President Bush, it withstood opponents' attempts to dismantle its key elements: a temporary-worker visa program and earned citizenship for most of the nation's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants.

Senators on both sides of the debate now view the bill "as something to improve rather than something to block," said Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla., one of the bill's chief sponsors.

Opponents reluctantly agreed that the bill had maintained momentum.

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