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loom. After the health care debate, there is little appetite for dealing with comprehen- sive and controversial legis- lation.
A final scenario would be a legislative “down payment.” A scaled-down approach is possible because both the
White House and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) are under immense pressure to deliver some- thing on the issue, and many feel that some progress on immigration reform is preferable to a continued stalemate with no clarity on when Congress might
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...both the White House and Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid...are under immense pressure to deliver something on the issue...”
get back to the issue. A legisla- tive down payment might include the so-called DREAM Act, which addresses the legal status of teen- agers and young adults who were brought to the U.S. at a young age and whose undocumented status precludes them from fully participating in our society; and, the green industry-supported Ag-
JOBS bill, which represents the only current reform agreement between business and labor interests. The reforms of AgJOBS are urgently needed, in the face of ongoing worksite immigration enforcement, and a recent crippling rewrite of the H-2A program.
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