61.   A consensus exists for trying harder to stem the tide of illegal immigration.

62.   A congressional task force on illegal immigration proposes to prohibit U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants from becoming citizens and calls for stricter border control enforcement.

63.   A separate measure moving through Congress would crack down on illegal immigration and allow states to deny a free public education to children who are illegal aliens.

64.   According to Alarcon, letting in so many people would defuse the pent-up pressures for illegal immigration by boat people.

65.   Actually, the government, under both Democrats and Republicans, has spent enormous amounts of money trying to halt illegal immigration.

66.   After the usual last-minute, overnight negotiations, consensus was reached on the illegal immigration issue, but it was a modest advance.

67.   Albright said the Cabinet-level agreements would help broaden U.S.-Mexican relations beyond politically sensitive disputes on illegal immigration and drug trafficking.

68.   Alarcon added that the bill could produce more illegal immigration but denied that Cuba would use the meetings to promote a new wave of migration in retaliation.

69.   Alba said demonstrators on both sides of the illegal immigration issue committed violence, but it was not clear who hit first.

70.   Also included in the spending bill are measures to crack down on illegal immigration.