11.   The passport stamp allows an immigrant to work and live in the United States while waiting for a green card.

12.   The white men created factories where Chinese immigrants worked, banning them in effect from direct contact with the river.

13.   Without such permits, immigrants cannot work legally, and employers who hire them face possible criminal sanctions.

14.   Without a work permit, an immigrant cannot work legally, though in practice, many do.

15.   A top Thai official wants to make four border provinces special economic zones where illegal Burmese immigrants can work legally.

16.   But last week, Bush instead said he favored more modest reforms that would allow illegal immigrants to work here legally.

17.   Chekalin said that some illegal immigrants were working in very profitable areas and taking billions of U.S. dollars out of the country each year without paying taxes.

18.   In the many cases where women immigrants are working in the sex industry, they face double jeopardy where prostitution is illegal.

19.   Legislation aimed at ending sweatshop labor by immigrants working in the Northern Mariana Islands passed the Senate Monday.

20.   The missing include firefighters and foreign visitors, bond brokers and illegal immigrants working mostly in food-service and maintenance jobs, an Associated Press analysis has found.