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.

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Measure OK'd to bar legal status to convicted migrants

Mike Madden
Republic Washington Bureau
May. 18, 2006 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON - The Senate on Wednesday unanimously adopted a proposal to bar immigrants convicted of crimes from getting legal status, endorsing what had been a key sticking point a month ago.

It was one of several issues taken up as lawmakers continued working toward President Bush's Memorial Day deadline to finish a bill on immigration reform.

Bush will visit Yuma today to drum up support for immigration reform and better border security. He came out strongly Monday night for letting millions of undocumented immigrants get legal status, a key provision of the Senate bill. Conservative Republicans fiercely oppose the measure.

Lawmakers also voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to build 376 miles of fences on the U.S.-Mexican border. But that was a mostly symbolic move, since it duplicated plans the Bush administration already had announced.

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