IMMIGRATION ISSUES AWAIT LAWMAKERS.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. With more border police and new sanctions against illegal aliens in place, some lawmakers are turning their attention to how many and what kind of legal immigrants the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. should welcome. Despite the prominence immigration immigration, entrance of a person (an alien) into a new country for the purpose of establishing permanent residence. Motives for immigration, like those for migration generally, are often economic, although religious or political factors may be very important. played in the 1996 political campaign, it's unclear what will be accomplished on the issue this year. Rep. Lamar Smith Lamar Smith may refer to:
``Any immigration reform Immigration reform is the common term used in political discussions regarding changes to immigration policy. In a certain sense, reform can be general enough to include promoted, expanded, or open immigration, but in reality discussions of reform often deal with the aspect of that will go forward will be a bipartisan effort,'' Smith said cautiously. ``I don't think there will be nearly the same opposition to anything that we'll do.'' Eighteen months ago, a commission on immigration reform recommended cutting the number of new legal immigrants from 675,000 to 550,000 a year and giving priority to spouses and children of permanent U.S. residents. President Clinton endorsed the idea, but it died last fall under a barrage of attacks from immigration advocacy groups and their allies in Congress. Instead, lawmakers got tougher with illegal immigrants. This time around, several business, labor and social service groups ranging across the liberal-conservative gamut have formed a loose alliance to fight any proposed changes in the legal immigration framework. They're leavening their arguments with the passionate images described at the base of the Statue of Liberty Statue of Liberty great symbolic structure in New York harbor. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 284] See : America Statue of Liberty perhaps the most famous monument to independence. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 284] See : Freedom : ``Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.'' Supporters of change concede that the United States is a nation of immigrants, but add that it is not a nation of limitless resources. |
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