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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...

WASHINGTON -- Members of the Minuteman Project stood guard along the Mexican border in Arizona and then patrolled the halls of Congress last month, clamoring for tighter borders to stanch what they call a national security threat. Then Congress passed national standards for driver licenses -- a move rooted in security arguments since 2001. It was also a response to states that, without regard for legal status, issue identification that can be used to board airplanes and enter government buildings. That's a step back for illegal immigrants. But 31/2 years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Congress is...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) --  The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that illegal immigrants do not have the same rights as Americans when they are wrongly fired from U.S. jobs.</p> <p>The court split 5-4 on whether companies can be forced to give back pay to illegal workers when they mistreat them on the job.</p>