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Immigration Reform Back On Bush Agenda

Even with Democrats more receptive, plan will be tough sell

By Olivia Gage, Newser User

Posted Apr 9, 2007 1:00 PM CDT

(Newser) – President Bush is making another run at immigration reform, armed with the hope that the Democratic Congress will be more receptive than his own party was last year. In Arizona today Bush will reintroduce a package that sounds suspiciously like his earlier attempt: increased border... Read full story »

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Even with Democrats more receptive, plan will be tough sell

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