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  • Chertoff still hopeful on border reform

    08/14/2007 12:00:26 PM PDT · by SwinneySwitch · 75 replies · 1,167+ views
    UPI.com ^ | Aug. 14, 2007 | Shaun Waterman
    EL PASO, Texas, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said he hopes Congress will soon revisit immigration reform for economic reasons. Chertoff told a border-security conference in El Paso, Texas, that his department was now faced with having to enforce immigration laws that not only pull resources away from dealing with security threats but also have a negative impact on agriculture and other economic sectors that have become dependent on illegal migrant labor. “I’m still hopeful that it may be revisited,” he said of the immigration bill, which died in the Senate this year. “In the...