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For Immediate Release
Date: January 7, 2004

Clark On Immigration Reform: "Too Little, Too Late"

"During the last election, President Bush promised to work with President Vicente Fox and our allies to meaningfully reform our immigration system. That's one of many promises he hasn't kept. Once again, the White House is talking about immigration reform, but they're not doing enough about it. The Bush proposal is too little, too late. It shouldn't take an election to get President Bush to focus on immigration reform.

"Today, the Bush White House proposed an immigration reform program that fails to help the immigrants who contribute to their communities every day, that fails to fix backlogs in the current system, and that fails to focus law enforcement resources on improving border security. It is wrong to leave foreign workers trapped in a temporary worker program.

"Real reform must be based on the core principles of economic security, access to legalization, family reunification, and homeland security. We should allow hard-working, law-abiding, undocumented workers to eventually earn their citizenship.

"We need leadership in the White House that recognizes the important contributions that immigrants make to this country."

Wesley Clark Statement on Immigration Reforms