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  • `Fencing' in Bush on immigration

    03/26/2006 6:37:32 AM PST · by Sharks · 27 replies · 754+ views
    chicago tribune ^ | March 26, 2006 | Clarence Page
    WASHINGTON -- Question: Who has the most influence with President Bush on the volatile issue of immigration reform? (A) The employing elites who are addicted to the cheap and docile labor pool that illegal immigrants provide? (B) The working-class and middle-class voters, including many legal immigrants, in the Republican Party's base who are frustrated with the lax controls on illegals? (C) The mostly minority backlash voters who, if Congress passes the sort of a tough, enforcement-only immigration bill that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) suggests, could cost the Grand Old Party support in Florida and Southwestern states for years...