The White House approach departs from a proposal by Sen. John Cornyn to require illegal workers to leave the country before they could achieve legal status as guest workers.
Highlights of the administration plan were reported in the Arizona Daily Star and The Hill, a Washington newspaper, after White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove and other administration officials met last week with Republican Reps. Jim Kolbe and Jeff Flake of Arizona.
The White House and the lawmakers declined Tuesday to discuss the meeting further
Again pure speculation from a liberal media source, but what they hey you are actively looking to criticize Bush anyway, so you take the speculation hook, line, and sinker.