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The provision is aimed at ending the widespread use of phony Social Security numbers by illegal immigrants looking for work in the United States.
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Business groups also are upset about what Sensenbrenner didn't include in his bill: a guest worker program or some other legal channel for businesses to employ more people from other countries.
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Business lobbyists say immigrants are needed to fill jobs that can't be filled by Americans.
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Senate may help businesses Business lobbyists hope the Senate will include a guest worker program when it takes up immigration reform next year and they'll end up with a bill more to their liking.

That's exactly what Tancredo fears.

He predicts there will be "a lot of hoopla" about the House immigration bill, which was expected to pass by Dec. 16, but its enforcement provisions will be undermined by the Senate's demand for a guest worker program.

When the final bill emerges from a House-Senate conference, "it will be very, very ugly," he predicts. "I am very worried about it."

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This posting hits on an aspect of the immigration debate most don't talk about: the business community is just as much a part of the problem as the politically correct crowd.

The scandal of border security is a bipartisan scandal.