81.   Legal immigration to the U.S.

82.   Making it clear that he supported legal immigration, Dole went on to denounce illegal immigration.

83.   Meanwhile, even immigration activists gloomily acknowledge that some restrictions on legal immigration are inevitable, even though they continue to fight proposed legislation.

84.   Most of the bills focus on ways to curb illegal immigration and limit the benefits received by undocumented immigrants, although several seek to reduce legal immigration as well.

85.   Moving with malice aforethought, Congress is showing that the target of the whipped-up hysteria about illegal immigrants is legal immigration.

86.   Next time, legal immigration should be considered.

87.   Nonetheless, the administration hewed to its official position of supporting modest cuts in the amount of legal immigration.

88.   Opponents of cutbacks in legal immigration hope to remove the question from the politically powerful appeal of stopping illegal immigration.

89.   Opponents of legal immigration see it as a threat to American jobs.

90.   Other business groups, meanwhile, are touting the benefits of legal immigration.