Groups have also met with top lawmakers and undertaken a letter-writing campaign to urge Congress to defeat the immigration proposals.

Mr. Bush dropped his immigration proposals as too risky for his 2004 re-election campaign, but took them up again in 2005.

There are good reasons to support the welcoming aspects of the Senate's immigration proposal, but an alleged labor shortage isn't one of them.

He had strong praise for the immigration proposal presented by President Bush this month.

At a news conference, he said the committee would not consider other immigration proposals, implicitly including the president's, until his own measure passed.

For all these reasons, I weigh each immigration proposal with two questions: "Does it offer a real fence?

The treatment implies that they are illegal aliens, and such segments often coincide with discussion of a new immigration proposal.

His team managed to roll out an advertisement with him talking about border security the day after the controversial immigration proposal was announced.

Mr. Clinton has threatened to veto the legislation if it does not include the immigration proposals.

After unsuccessful efforts to shut off debate on competing immigration proposals, the legislation was sent back to the Judiciary Committee.