11.   Instead, the House should focus on keeping illegal immigrants out of the country, they said.

12.   Language may keep some immigrants from filling out the forms.

13.   Once in the United States, some immigrants were kept as virtual captives by employers or the smugglers until the debt was paid, the officials said.

14.   Republican presidential candidate Lamar Alexander said Wednesday that the military or a private company should be given the job of keeping illegal immigrants out of this country.

15.   Since private contractors can build high-tech U.S. missiles, they can probably keep illegal immigrants out, he said.

16.   The crusade to keep immigrants out is madness, Armey said.

17.   The center will keep undocumented immigrants for brief stays during processing.

18.   The Immigration and Naturalization Service and the FBI will begin working together to keep illegal immigrants from buying guns, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced Wednesday.

19.   The inability to speak English keeps immigrants in very low-paying jobs.

20.   The law, passed last fall, was an attempt to keep immigrants from using lengthy court procedures to prolong their stay.