In Senate Deal, Details Bedevil Illegal Migrants

o become full legal residents, under a compromise Senate leaders announced Thursday, Mr. Ramírez and other illegal immigrants would have to pay a total of $5,000 in fines, more than 14 times the typical weekly earnings on the streets here, return to their home countries at least once, and wait as long as eight years. During the wait, they would have limited possibilities to bring other family members. Full Story »

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Jim Mac Donald
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by Jim Mac Donald - Oct. 1, 2008

This is a typical Times story which highlights the negative, but is worth reading since we don't yet know what is buried in the actual act. Anything as thich as this bundle of paper contains a "poison pill" someplace. If the border is truly closed [very unlikely] then perhaps a few of the 12 million will take this on! Most typical bureaucratic nonsense that come out of Washington. Sad!

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