31.   Clinton said late on Thursday that the only talks with Cuba that he favored were continuations of discussions on immigration issues.

32.   Consequently, racial identity becomes a major issue for many Mexicans and their descendants, says Nestor Rodriguez, a University of Houston sociologist who studies immigration issues.

33.   Dealing with immigration issues has been a challenge, admitted Meissner, who plans to take time off when her term ends.

34.   Democrats stalled a final vote by continuing to debate a broad range of immigration issues.

35.   During their first summit Friday in Mexico, President Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox announced the start of high-level discussions on immigration issues.

36.   Emory University political science professor Robert Pastor said the immigration issue is part of the larger issue of the economic disparity between the United States and Mexico.

37.   Germany was worried about keeping control of immigration issues.

38.   Gramm said the immigration issue is too complex to add to unrelated legislation without a hearing by immigration subcommittees in the House and Senate.

39.   He said he has an open and positive working relationship with them on the immigration issue.

40.   He said that Democrats did not bring up the immigration amnesty issue until late July, when Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore was doing poorly in the polls.