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Rove Behind Immigration Details
Political strategist Karl Rove has become the White House’s point man in pressing Congress to back a program that would temporarily legalize the status of millions of illegal workers. Concerned that anti-immigrant sentiment within the GOP was undermining the administration’s efforts to appeal to Latino voters, Rove and other Bush allies organized White House sessions with lawmakers to push for Bush’s plan, the Los Angeles Times reports. "There is a level of detail that was not there before that is very important,” said Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), describing the administration’s outlining of the plan at a session he attended. President Bush has said he wanted to allow illegal workers to apply for a three-year work visa, with a possible three-year extension, before they must return to their native country.
Story Continues Below At recent meetings led by Rove, administration officials told lawmakers that under Bush’s plan, any worker who is in the country illegally would have to pay a substantial fine before being granted a temporary work visa. Also, workers who participate in the program and then return to their native country would be permitted to reapply for a guest worker visa after a year. But the Bush plan is likely to meet resistance from some Republicans in the House, who fear that a guest worker program would attract more illegal immigrants, according to the Times. Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), who opposes a guest worker plan, attended a White House meeting and said afterward he believes the administration could be persuaded that the only realistic approach to immigration reform was to toughen law enforcement and border security.
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