1. A coalition of conservative Republican lawmakers also has opposed any plan to legalize illegal immigrants. 2. But Gramm and other conservative critics in Congress oppose combining any temporary guest-worker program with a plan to legalize undocumented immigrants. 3. However, Republicans are divided over the principal initiatives, especially programs that would legalize undocumented immigrants. 4. In recent weeks, the administration has floated various amnesty options by which illegal immigrants would be legalized, as if to test the political waters. 5. Legalizing immigrants who are, in the words of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, undocumented, has major domestic political and foreign policy implications for the Bush administration. 6. NAACP Chairman Julian Bond joined union leaders Monday to urge the Bush administration to include people of all races and nationalities in any plan to legalize undocumented immigrants. 7. Responding to pressure from congressional Democrats, Bush said he might include people from countries besides Mexico in his plan to legalize undocumented immigrants. 8. The students unanimously agreed that legalizing the immigrants who remain illegal was a good idea. 9. U.S. labor unions urged the White House Thursday to include people of all nationalities in any plan to legalize undocumented immigrants. 10. One challenge will be to legalize undocumented immigrants without being unfair to people who have been following the rules and going through sluggish legal channels, he said. |