1.   Republicans eager to take credit for curbing illegal immigration wanted the over-all bill to proceed, without the education provision if necessary.

2.   As a result, even if immigration is curbed, the Hispanic proportion of the American population will continue to grow.

3.   Attorney General Janet Reno told the panel the Clinton administration is doing its best to curb illegal immigration.

4.   - Curbed illegal immigration.

5.   A new federal law that will curb immigration went into effect on Tuesday as lawyers for refugees and the poor continued to fight it in court.

6.   Buchanan urged GOP lawmakers to produce legislation to curb immigration.

7.   But recently the administration has focused its efforts more on curbing illegal immigration and guaranteeing protections for American workers.

8.   By contrast, the bishops took a generally more liberal stance on social and economic issues, for example opposing efforts to curb immigration and reduce welfare benefits.

9.   Conservatives such as Dan Stein, director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, say Bush has not pushed strongly enough to curb illegal immigration.

10.   Despite deep differences over the proposed solution, lawmakers on both sides of the bill agreed that their previous attempts to curb illegal immigrations have failed miserably.